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USDA Invests $50,000 in Community Infrastructure in Rice County, Kansas

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director for Kansas Lynne Hinrichsen today announced that USDA is investing $50,000 toward new and improved fire engines for Rice County Rural Fire District No.1. … Rice County will use a $50,000 grant to assist with the purchase of six engine/pumpers and build two additional engine/pumpers out of the vehicles being replaced. These vehicles will be used in Rice County and portions of Ellsworth and Reno Counties. Through mutual aid agreements with surrounding communities these fire engines could serve as far as 150 miles from Rice County. The new fire engines will provide fire protection services for the nearly 11,800 people. This public safety partnership is made possible by the additional contributions of the Rice County Rural Fire District No. 1, contributing $600,000, and Rice County, contributing $777,247.

2020-10-06T16:20:38-05:00October 6, 2020|News|
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Kansas coronavirus hospitalizations set new pandemic record

Kansas health officials report a new pandemic record for average daily hospitalizations. The state had an average of 26.29 new coronavirus hospitalizations per day for the seven days ending Monday. The previous high was 23.86 for the seven days ending Friday. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment also reported that the state saw 1,597 new confirmed and probable cases since Friday, an increase of 2.5%, bringing the total cases to 62,708. The state health department also reported eight new COVID-19-related deaths since Friday, bringing the total to 706.
Source: 1350 KMAN

2020-10-06T07:14:20-05:00October 5, 2020|News|
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Kansas’ rural legacy needs participation

The state’s Office of Rural Prosperity and the Kansas Sampler Foundation announced an important partnership over the summer that may have gone overlooked by some. Kansas Power Up and Go is targeted at young professionals and aims to collect information about how they want to live and work — all with the goal of revitalizing our state’s rural areas. It’s a most worthwhile goal. After all, Kansas is a state with a storied legacy of farms and frontier families, folks braving the odds to create new lives for themselves on the plains. Our state’s history is one of determination and bravery, and of embracing this unique, windswept place.
Source: Cowley CourierTraveler

2020-10-06T07:16:16-05:00October 5, 2020|News|
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Tourism takes a hit in Wichita metro area from COVID-19

Visit Wichita is reporting tourism is down roughly $18 Million. But there is room for optimism as some of it is bouncing back after taking a hit from COVID-19. The Allen House in Wichita, a rare Frank Lloyd Wright home completed in 1918, is seeing tourism come back. But they have taken a hit on both fundraising and fees from visitors. “It’s coming back, yes,” said Amy Reep, Ops Manager at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Allen House. “We are doing events, but won’t have a couple hundred people at a time here to enjoy the home.”
Source: KSN-TV

2020-10-06T07:16:24-05:00October 5, 2020|News|
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Committee to review Topeka police policies

The Police and Community committee will begin reviewing police training procedures as it highlights four key areas of police policy to focus on. Committee members Karen Hiller, Sylvia Ortiz and Mike Padilla all agreed to review Topeka police’s use of force training, standard interactions and bias profiling, escalation and de-escalation tactics, and duty to intervene. Ortiz said these are the first four topics and is not the full scope of what the committee will review. “We have good officers, we have bad officers. We have good individuals, we have bad individuals,” said Ortiz, who also serves as the committee chair. “I am just tired of the back and forth and pointing of the finger… Let’s dig into this and see what the outcome is going to be.”
Source: Local Government – The Topeka Capital-Journal

2020-10-06T07:16:33-05:00October 5, 2020|News|
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More Kansas counties enter COVID school red zone — but case rates improved statewide

More Kansas counties have moved into the red zone of the school reopening criteria due to high numbers of coronavirus cases. The addition of more counties to the list comes as the Wichita area and statewide rates for new cases compared to population improved last week. Sedgwick County is one of 75 counties in the red zone of the incidence rate, Kansas Department of Health and Environment data shows. That is 10 more counties in the worst school reopening zone than a week ago. Only three of the state’s 105 counties are in the least-restrictive green zone, which had seven counties last week.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

2020-10-06T07:16:39-05:00October 5, 2020|News|
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s money will help run Sedgwick County’s 2020 elections

Sedgwick County is turning to private funds to help run its 2020 election. Sedgwick County, the second-largest county in Kansas by population, has been awarded $816,458 from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a nonprofit foundation, to boost the efforts of the county election office to hold an election in the midst of the pandemic. The money comes from a $250 million donation by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, and his wife, Priscilla Chan. The billionaire married couple said in a news release that they hope the money helps “ensure that every voter who intends to cast a ballot is able to, and ultimately, to preserve the integrity of our elections.”
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

2020-10-06T07:16:46-05:00October 5, 2020|News|
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Harvey County speeds up voting equipment upgrade

Thanks to a grant, the Harvey County Clerk’s Office was able to take a bite — about 12 percent — out of a planned upgrade to voting equipment upgrades planned for 2021. The Center of Tech and Civic Life awarded a grant of more than $67,629 to the Harvey County Clerk’s Office to use for elections. The county commission will be asked to consider a purchase of $45,475 — new ballot tabulation and auditing equipment — Oct. 6. That purchase comes early, and removes the equipment purchase from capital improvement funds for the county clerk’s office.
Source: Newton Kansan

2020-10-06T07:17:03-05:00October 5, 2020|News|
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Sabetha sees increased sales tax distributions

Sabetha’s sales tax distributions are above last year’s distributions for September. This is according to the September County/City Local Sales Tax Distribution Report released by the Kansas Department of Revenue. The state issues these distributions two months after collection, so the September distribution is a reflection of July sales. Sabetha saw increased sales tax distributions in the month of September alone — with distributions of $40,202.07, a 7.3 percent increase from the $37,480.93 distributed in September 2019. Sabetha’s local sales tax rate is 1 percent.
Source: Sabetha Herald

2020-10-06T07:17:49-05:00October 5, 2020|News|
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