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Sedgwick County breaks ground on new fire station in Andale to replace current one

Leaders of Sedgwick County Fire District 1 broke ground Monday afternoon on a new fire station which will replace the current Station 31 in Andale. The new, approximately 10,000 square foot station will have four bays to hold public safety vehicles. It replaces the current station’s 2,400 square foot facility that only has one bay and requires some public safety vehicles to be stored outside unprotected from the elements. The new station will be more publicly accessible…
(Read more: KSN-TV)

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Big Brutus attraction reopens to the public

After being closed since March 17, 2020 because of coronavirus shutdowns, the Big Brutus, Inc. museum at West Mineral, Kansas is open again for visitors. Face masks are required in the museum and social distancing recommended on the complex, but the monstrous mine tool attraction in Southeast Kansas is viewable, as of August 1, 2020, seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Big Brutus is a mining excavator, Bucyrus Erie model 1850B, with the largest electric shovel in the world. It stands 16 stories tall (160 feet), weighs 11 million pounds and has boom 150 feet long.
(Read more: News – Cherokee County News Advocate)

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Municipal Bond Trends for July 31, 2020

The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of MBIS “investment grade” yields. Every issuer’s credit is different. For rates that may be applicable to your municipality, contact our Municipal Bond Advisors, Larry Kleeman and Beth Warren.

Ranson Financial2020-08-03T08:00:05-05:00August 3, 2020|News|

Planning board lauds wind regulation proposal

Limits on noise and shadow flicker would determine how close a turbine could be to a home — rather than set distances — in a draft of proposed commercial wind energy regulations reviewed by the Reno County Planning Commission last week. The sound and flicker limits proposed are a compromise between more stringent requirements sought by homeowners who have weighed in on the debate and those developers have proposed. Planning commissioners praised the work of a subcommittee that drafted the regulations, suggesting only several minor changes during a nearly three-hour meeting when the document was reviewed a paragraph at a time.
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)

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‘Culture of innovation’: Topeka looks to capitalize on Plug and Play partnership

In coming weeks and months, Topeka’s Plug and Play accelerator program, which was announced last year, is expected to gain serious momentum. Additional founding partners are set to be announced throughout August. Then, those founding partners will help select the first group of startup companies to participate in the accelerator. And this fall, they’ll begin a three-month program aimed at helping the startups make connections, perfect their products and form partnerships with area corporations. Then, at some point this year, results of a viability study to determine the future home of an innovation campus will be revealed, leading to the creation of a space that will serve as Topeka’s hub for creative endeavors and collaborations stemming from the accelerator program.
(Read more: Local News | Topeka Capital-Journal)

Ranson Financial2020-08-03T07:56:38-05:00August 3, 2020|News|

Revisiting Rice County during the 1950s

For Rice County native, Larry Meredith, growing up during the 1950s in rural Kansas was special – no internet, lots of friends and lots of room to roam.In his newest book, "Real, Rural: Growing Up Rural in the 1950s," Meredith tells tales about Bushton, the 1950s and his graduating class of 12."Nobody worried about the competition between the two grocery stores on Main St. and they drove to Lyons or Great Bend to do their serious shopping," Meredith wrote.
(Read more: State News – Morning Sun)

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“Keeping residents and businesses healthy”: City of Wichita hopes to clarify owners’ concerns

Bars, night clubs, and some restaurant just wrapped up another weekend of shutdowns and early closures under a county health order. Monday, the city of Wichita will host a meeting to talk with owners to find ways to get them some help. KSN news spoke with Mayor Brandon Whipple about bar owners concerns. With that meeting, the city says it wants to make sure it’s helping bar and restaurant owners the best that it can. The owner of Quincy’s bar and grill says dealing with shutdowns and early closures has been tough. The same amount of people are out and about, and now they have fewer places to go.
(Read more: KSN-TV)

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City of Hutchinson and Reno County both mark record July sales tax receipts

Federal stimulus checks and continuing stay-at-home orders are credited with helping the City of Hutchinson and Reno County both experience record sales tax receipts for July. It was a second consecutive month that receipts exceeded collections compared to the same month last year, at a time when local government officials had been expecting shortfalls due to layoffs and closures forced by the novel coronavirus. “It looks like vehicle sales were up and home improvement-type store sales as well,” said Angela Richard, Hutchinson’s finance director. Also experiencing increase sales, she said, were grocery, sporting goods and hobby stores.
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)

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New micro-hospital in Topeka offers alternative to traditional hospital setting

A lead physician at the recently opened Topeka ER & Hospital says the facility offers an alternative to traditional hospital settings where some people may not feel comfortable. Topeka ER & Hospital, which officially opened July 27, is the first independently owned “micro-hospital” in Kansas, according to Jared Schreiner, chief medical officer and emergency medicine physician. “The whole design of the micro-hospital started maybe a decade ago,” he said, “and the purpose was to build hospitals in communities, because we found that patients were avoiding care because they didn’t want to drive to the city, to fight parking, to fight traffic, to get on an elevator, to follow signs, to get lost, to wait in a waiting room.”
(Read more: Local News | Topeka Capital-Journal)

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Fairway approves removal of diseased feature tree in right-of-way on Suwanee Road

The Fairway City Council on Tuesday morning unanimously approved the removal of a feature tree in the right-of-way along Suwanee Road. City staff had KC Arborist, the city’s long-time arborist, evaluate a 43-inch round tree with a large cavity about 20-feet off the ground. The arborist determined the tree to be structurally compromised as the result of a disease, and recommended its removal as soon as possible.
(Read more: Shawnee Mission Post)

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Sedgwick County breaks ground on new fire station in Andale to replace current one

Big Brutus attraction reopens to the public

Municipal Bond Trends for July 31, 2020

Planning board lauds wind regulation proposal

‘Culture of innovation’: Topeka looks to capitalize on Plug and Play partnership

Revisiting Rice County during the 1950s

“Keeping residents and businesses healthy”: City of Wichita hopes to clarify owners’ concerns

City of Hutchinson and Reno County both mark record July sales tax receipts

New micro-hospital in Topeka offers alternative to traditional hospital setting

Fairway approves removal of diseased feature tree in right-of-way on Suwanee Road

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