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Greenwood County Commissioners Held Special Redistricting Meeting

info2018-12-12T06:30:35-06:00December 12th, 2018|

Greenwood County Commissioners held a special meeting last Friday, December 7, to further discuss redistricting. Last Monday, commissioners were presented with three map options, generated by R&S Digital Services, Inc. Those maps were divided into five districts comprised of fairly equal populations. In each of those options, the city of Eureka was split into two districts, with the northern Eureka district limited to city territory-only. Because county roads and bridges are a large part of the commissioners’ roles, the current commissioners wanted to look at an option that added more county territory into the Eureka districts. On Friday, they were presented [...]

Chanute hears estimates on fiber optic

info2018-12-12T06:29:15-06:00December 12th, 2018|

Chanute city commissioners heard cost estimates at Monday evening’s meeting to provide fiber optic bandwidth to two neighborhoods that have requested it. James Lightfoot, president of the Oklahoma City engineering company ACRS, presented information on designs to deploy the fiber optic cable. One of the neighborhoods is east of Plummer Avenue between 7th and 14th streets with a potential of 373 homes, and the other is east of the golf course with a potential of 124 homes. Representatives of each neighborhood have asked the commission to be connected. A full citywide build would involve 17 such service areas. Lightfoot said one [...]

Park Board rejects only bid to buy MacDonald Golf Course

info2018-12-11T06:43:42-06:00December 11th, 2018|

MacDonald Golf Course won't be sold after all. In a unanimous vote on Monday, Wichita's Park Board decided to reject the only offer it received to purchase MacDonald Golf Course. The offer, submitted by GreatLife Golf & Fitness out of Kansas City, was for $850,000. In October, two representatives from GreatLife, which owns Tallgrass Country Club, attended an informational meeting at MacDonald in response to a request for proposals that went out for the 146-acre, 18-hole course at 840 N. Yale. A special selection committee tasked with studying and offer recommendations for any proposals that came in advised the Park Board [...]

Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office lowers age for detention deputies

info2018-12-11T06:41:54-06:00December 11th, 2018|

The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office is lowering its age to be a detention deputy in hopes of reaching more applicants. Before anyone applying for a position at the Sedgwick County Detention Facility had to be 19 years old. That age has been lowered to 18. The sheriff's office says applicants still have to be 21 to be a commissioned officer who carries a service weapon. Applicants must also pass a written test, physical test, psychological test, drug test, polygraph and background check. (Read more: KWCH News)

Shawnee County Commission denies request for bed and breakfast with event center

info2018-12-11T06:41:13-06:00December 11th, 2018|

Shortly after the Shawnee County Commission on Monday morning voted 2-1 to reject his conditional use permit request for a bed and breakfast and event center on land at 3521 S.E. Paulen Road, all Rod McCollum could do was shrug his shoulders and begin considering what to do with land east of Topeka that had been in his family for years. “Broken-hearted,” McCollum said a few minutes after his plan had been rejected. “I wanted to stay home.” McCollum, 62, petitioned the county for the conditional use permit to use his home as a bed and breakfast and a refurbished barn [...]

Wichita seeks Amtrak service, county shows hesitance

info2018-12-11T06:37:52-06:00December 11th, 2018|

Wichita officials are pushing for Amtrak to restore rail service in the city that hasn’t had a passenger train service for nearly 40 years, but Sedgwick County officials aren’t ready to embrace the plan. Bringing back the rail service is near the top of the city’s lobbying agenda when the state legislative session begins next month. “Passenger rail is evolving as a key component for keeping and attracting young people as part of a strong workforce,” the legislative platform said. “In addition, it provides a safe travel option for an aging population.” But Sedgwick County didn’t even put Amtrak service on [...]

Lawrence Humane Society asks city to allow catch and release of feral cat colonies

info2018-12-11T08:50:13-06:00December 11th, 2018|

The Lawrence Humane Society wants the city to consider allowing colonies of feral cats to live in the city as long as the cats have been vaccinated and spayed or neutered. Currently, allowing cats to roam free is against city code, and humane society representatives say the animal shelter previously has had to euthanize dozens of cats because they are not adoptable. The Lawrence City Commission will consider various changes to the animal control ordinance and discuss the potential “community cats” program as part of its meeting Tuesday. The shelter is requesting the city change its animal control code to enable [...]

Sedgwick County among 16 Kansas counties who are recipients of $900K funding to address opioid crisis

info2018-12-11T06:33:35-06:00December 11th, 2018|

A statement from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) says approximately $900,000 has been awarded to county health departments to address the opioid crisis in Kansas. The funding comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Opioid Overdose Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement which was awarded to KDHE earlier this fall. The counties that will be receiving funding are: Barton, Crawford, Finney, Franklin, Geary, Harvey, Johnson, Labette, Mitchell, Neosho, Pottawatomie, Rawlins, Reno, Riley, Sedgwick and Stevens. (Read more: KAKE - News)

New Sedgwick County tag office opens Monday in a former pool and patio store

info2018-12-11T06:26:33-06:00December 11th, 2018|

If you need new license plates for your car this week, make sure you go to the right place. Three tag offices closed Friday and a new office opens on East Kellogg at noon on Monday. Drivers from north and south Sedgwick County will have to drive farther to find a tag office. But waits should be shorter, county officials have said. Now, Sedgwick County will have two, full-size tag offices instead of one large station and three satellite stations, county officials have said. The offices that closed last week were at 21st and Maize, 21st and Woodlawn, and Derby Towne [...]

Up to 10,000 City of Topeka customers possibly affected in potential cyberattack

info2018-12-11T06:11:11-06:00December 11th, 2018|

The City of Topeka said Monday it has been a potential victim of a cyberattack and has identified up to 10,000 customers who may have been affected by the data breach. City spokeswoman Molly Hadfield said Monday the city was notified of the incident by its utility billing payment system software vendor, Central Square, on Friday afternoon. The potential data breach hasn’t been confirmed at this time, Hadfield said. The breach occurred between Oct. 31 and Dec. 7 and would affect any city utilities customer who made a one-time payment or set up autopay during that time. E-checks and customers who [...]

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