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Petition to lift breed-specific ban in Salina fails

info2024-10-02T09:28:22-05:00October 2nd, 2024|

An effort to lift a dog breed-specific ban in Salina has hit a roadblock. Salinans Against BSL (Breed Specific Language) has been working for years to lift the breed-specific ban. Last week, a petition containing 1,814 signatures requiring the city to either repeal or modify the ban was delivered to the Saline County Election Office. Under Kansas Law, petitions must have the signatures of at least 25% of registered voters who voted in the last municipal election. The city says that of 1,814 signatures, only 1,369 were accepted by the Saline County Election Office, which fell below the 25% requirement. The [...]

Wamego may close burn pile to non-residents

info2024-10-02T09:26:48-05:00October 2nd, 2024|

The City of Wamego’s burn pile has always been intended for city resident use only, however city officials have never enforced the rule and county residents have been allowed to haul debris there. That may soon change. Wamego City Manager Stacie Eichem on Monday informed the Pottawatomie County Commissioners maintaining the burn site has become a bigger job than what current city staff can manage. If the city is to allow county residents to continue to use the site as they have been, a full time employee will need to be hired. Wamego City Commissioners offered to leave the burn site [...]

Andover modifies policy on financial guarantees, bond terms to make suburb more ‘developer friendly’

info2024-10-02T09:25:20-05:00October 2nd, 2024|

Andover is attempting to make development easier and faster for developers. This month, the city of Andover's Council unanimously approved changes to its policy on public infrastructure financing for developments up for special assessments. The changes will reduce the financial guarantee requirements of developers and modify bond servicing terms for the city — among other things. Special assessment petitions are methods utilized by cities to finance public infrastructure improvements — such as streets, sidewalks, storm drainage, sanitary sewer, water and traffic control signals — by charging the cost directly to the properties benefiting from the improvements. The method allows the costs [...]

Petition to repeal Salina’s pit bull ban falls short of goal

info2024-10-01T07:45:09-05:00October 1st, 2024|

A petition to force the Salina City Commission to take some kind of action on the current pit bull ban has been rejected.... 'Of the 1,814 signatures submitted, only 1,369 were accepted... This means the petition fell short by 22 of the required number of signatures. Source: Salina Journal

Grant will help study hunger problem

info2024-09-30T09:14:49-05:00September 30th, 2024|

As part of the ongoing process of working to improve living in rural Kansas, Gov. Laura Kelly recently announced 14 grant recipients of the Rural Champions program. One of those recipients is Cowley County, where the monies will be used to develop strategies to combat hunger. This is the second year that the state, through its Office of Rural Prosperity, has awarded the Rural Champion grants to organizations within counties with fewer than 40,000 population. An application for Cowley County last year was unsuccessful. This time, though, the state is awarding the county through the Legacy Community Foundation one-year wage stipend [...]

No Wile E. Coyote: Watch Johnson County animal officer save coyote tangled in wire fence

info2024-09-30T09:13:38-05:00September 30th, 2024|

On Sept. 24, Deputy Dwayne Shoop, a former Johnson County Sheriff’s deputy turned animal control officer, was called to wrangle the American jackal that had been stuck for several hours near West 135th Street and South Spoon Creek Road. Video of the encounter was posted by the sheriff’s office on social media. “It’s typical,” the deputy later said about getting a call regarding a coyote. After a call from the property owner, Shoop said he came upon the coyote that was hanging by its left leg in the fence. The coyote had a bewildered face with wide eyes and an open [...]

City to discuss $10 million upgrades to Sunrise, Sunset cemeteries

info2024-09-30T09:12:22-05:00September 30th, 2024|

Some of the proposed upgrades to Sunrise Cemetery include the construction of a new shop and office, renovating the existing shop, paving a section of the maintenance lot and fencing the maintenance yard. At Sunset Cemetery, upgrades could include building a new joint maintenance shop with Sunset Zoo, installing a new irrigation system, adding columbaria, making storm drainage and utility improvements, reconstructing cemetery roads, improving accessible sidewalks at the entry and Carriage House and making repairs to the memorial arc. Source: 1350 KMAN

What the COVID surge looks like for Butler County

info2024-09-30T09:11:34-05:00September 30th, 2024|

Just one year and four months after the COVID-19 Pandemic has ended, the virus is now a regular visitor for cold and flu season. With health professionals declaring a surge in COVID-19 cases, Butler County is staying below alarming rates of positive testing, which gives medical personnel great hope of no return to pandemic level emergency. The COVID-19 Pandemic was declared as “over” by the World Health Organization, (WHO), on May 5, 2023. This insinuated that the virus is no longer a public health emergency, allowing health and medical professionals to only monitor positive cases with no other restrictions. The WHO [...]

Grain Belt Express to connect with wind, solar transmission lines

info2024-09-30T09:09:24-05:00September 30th, 2024|

The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) has given approval with conditions to a siting plan for two 345 kV transmission lines, known as the AC Collector System, designed to connect wind and solar farms to the Grain Belt Express. One line is planned to run 46 miles through parts of Ford, Meade, and Gray Counties (the “Meade-Dodge City Line”) and the other approximately 16 miles through parts of Ford County (the “Bucklin-Dodge City Line”). Conditions imposed by the order require Grain Belt to file a routing analysis comparing the company’s originally proposed route of the Meade-Dodge City line to an alternate route, [...]

Colwich, Bentley, Halstead, Newton firefighters attend natural gas training

info2024-09-30T09:08:23-05:00September 30th, 2024|

Firefighters from Kansas towns including Halstead, Bentley and Colwich attended a natural gas firefighting training that evening put on by Black Hills Energy which has a local office in Wichita. Leading the demonstration was Arlen Thompson who retired from Black Hills Energy after more than 30 years and was a volunteer firefighter for more than 30 years in Freemont. Black Hills Energy is a natural gas utility that serves a variety of Kansas towns including Colwich, Maize, Sterling, Attica and Andale. “We serve 65 communities in Kansas,” James P. Williams, media person with the natural gas company, said. They rotate the [...]

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