Bar owners should consider themselves warned. “Without complying with the mask ordinance you do put your liquor license in jeopardy,” said Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple on Monday. “So we should be seeing a tapering off of the numbers and a downward trend, but for that to happen we do need people, businesses and also individuals to take the mask ordinance seriously.”
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COVID-19 has hit the school system hard. Remote learning, concerns about safety, and now delays. Ingalls Schools is a Pre-K through 12 school system with nearly 250 students. As the upcoming school year quickly approaches, they are preparing to have students in the classrooms come September. Extra wash stations, social distancing, and new cleaning units to fog classrooms are just a few ways the district is preparing. They also plan to disinfect rooms after every class and clean busses after every route. “We will have a plan where the kids will wash their hands every hour,” said Randy Rockhold, superintendent of Ingalls Schools. Their goal is to keep kids safely in school. But that safety does come with a price. The school could expect upwards of nearly $218,000 in expenses.
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A massive piece of equipment, hidden in a small southeast Kansas town, is a symbol of the area’s rich mining history. ​​Its size and force were the talk of the town for decades. And now it’s an interactive museum that tens of thousands from across the globe visit each year.​​ Big Brutus is the largest electric mining shovel still standing in the United States.​​ The behemoth machine is located in West Mineral, Kansas.
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