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No matter what’s going on in the world around it, the sky is always blue and the sun is always out in Kitty City. The funky neon cityscape in the Lawrence Arts Center’s window has now served as the temporary home of multiple litters of kittens as they wait to be adopted. Its skyscrapers are decorated with feathers and connected by plastic tubes and catwalks, and passersby on the New Hampshire Street sidewalk can watch the city’s residents play — and even consider taking one of them home. It’s a collaborative effort between the Arts Center and the Lawrence Humane Society, and so far it’s helped the Humane Society find homes for several litters of kittens.
Source: LJWorld.com.
The United State Geological Survey has reported a sixth earthquake in Wichita on Saturday. The latest was a 2.9 magnitude at 8:39 p.m. with an epicenter southeast of 13th and Rock. All six of the reported earthquakes have been in east Wichita and ranged in magnitude from a 2.5 to a 3.5. More than 200 people reported feeling the latest earthquake. Most were in Wichita but there were also reports of people feeling it in Texas, Tennessee and Iowa.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
Oxford welcomed the new Hometown Market at the store’s grand opening Wednesday. Without a grocery store for the past year or more, Oxford residents had to drive either to Wellington, 10 miles west, or Winfield, 10 miles east to purchase groceries. Owners Beau and Stacie Gilliland thought the people in Oxford and surrounding area had a need for a grocery store, so in September, they began doing the paperwork, contacting suppliers and cleaning up the former grocery store building in Oxford. They live on Dalton Road and used the Oxford grocery frequently before it closed.
Source: The Arkansas City Traveler
Manhattan and Junction City home sales through November 2020 increased by 20.1% when compared to the same time period last year. Through November 2020, 1,701 homes have been sold, up 285 from 1,416 sold through November 2019, according to data from a Flint Hills Association of Realtors report for the area. This report takes multiple listing services and data from the Flint Hills Association of Realtors, including information combined from Manhattan and Junction City areas.
Source: Derby Informer | News
Cowley County will put up a stone in front of a maple tree by the courthouse to honor Bill Taylor, longtime county counselor, who died in 2012. “You can’t go through county records without seeing his name everywhere. He lives in our documents,” said county administrator Lucas Goff. “And it’s because of Bill that we had trees around the courthouse in the first place.” At a county commission meeting a number of years ago, Taylor said the county needed to put in trees around the courthouse itself, Goff said. The county planted several trees at that time. But the Kansas weather took a toll on the trees, Goff said, so they had to be taken out from the front of the courthouse this past year.
Source: The Arkansas City Traveler
New data from the Sedgwick County Health Department show the week after Thanksgiving was the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Both the rate of new cases and the positive test rate — two key indicators used to measure the spread of COVID-19 in the Wichita area community — spiked in the days following Thanksgiving. The health department’s latest recovery metrics report, dated Friday, shows a record-high positive test rate in Sedgwick County of 28.3% for the week of Nov. 29. The 3,668 new cases of COVID-19 and the resulting rate of 714.2 new cases per 100,000 people were also record highs for one week.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
The Crawford County Commission heard concerns Friday from local bar owners about COVID-19 mitigation enforcement — the second time this week that they’ve received such complaints from at least one owner. Unlike Tuesday’s meeting, county health officials were present to address bar owners’ concerns and respond to them, which may have cleared up some of the issues raised. Other questions, however, appeared unresolved — with more restrictive rules for the general public rather than just business owners discussed as possible solutions.
Source: Pittsburg Morning Sun
An ongoing project that started three years ago for Valley Center Public Schools is finally coming to fruition in January 2021. The School district is opening a part-time medical clinic at Valley Center High School in mid-January. “For students and staff it’s just eliminating the drive into Wichita,” said University of Kansas School of Medicine Wichita Medical Practice Association Executive Director, Aaron Ryan. “We hope that leads to more preventive care visits, more timely visits, decreased time away from the classroom.”
Source: KSN-TV
The city marked the transit system’s 20th anniversary this month, but the idea of a citywide bus system had been talked about long before the first buses went into service. By the time the City Commission approved spending property tax revenues for the service in 1999, which together with federal and state transportation funding got the service started, it had been a topic of discussion for more than a decade, according to newspaper archives. As with many government decisions, there were critics, but when the choice to continue funding the service with a special sales tax was put to voters in 2008 and again in 2017, the answer was a resounding yes.
Source: LJWorld.com.
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