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Mounted units apprehend Wichita shoplifter with $1,600 worth of stolen merchandise

info2023-12-20T11:01:38-06:00December 20th, 2023|

Mounted units apprehended a shoplifter in Wichita with $1,600 worth of stolen merchandise in their vehicle. The Wichita Police Department said its mounted unit was doing a routine holiday patrol on North Greenwich Road Monday when someone waved them down about a shoplifting incident at Cabela's. The WPD said the officers investigated and located the suspect and the suspect's vehicle nearby. According to the Sumner County Sheriff's Office, Deputy Wylie and Sergeant Thomas from the Caldwell Police Department assisted the Wichita Police Department's mounted unit in the arrest. As seen in the photo, stolen merchandise included a blanket, jackets, a hat, gloves, and plush fish. The [...]

Cherryvale Historical Museum announces a move

info2023-12-20T10:47:19-06:00December 20th, 2023|

The Cherryvale Historical Museum board has announced that the museum will move to a new building in the new year. In January, board members and volunteers will begin transitioning from the current location, 215 E. Fourth St. in Cherryvale, to the new building at 322 E. Main, the former First Baptist Church and Fellowship Hall. The church congregation had grown small, and without a permanent pastor, the remaining members decided that it was time to offer the structure to another nonprofit group. The museum board saw this as an opportunity to bring the museum onto Main Street in a more visible [...]

Hutchinson Fire Department rescues two Cargill workers from 70 feet in air

info2023-12-20T10:45:47-06:00December 20th, 2023|

The Hutchinson Fire Department rescued two Cargill Salt workers from 70 feet in the air on Monday afternoon. The HFD responded around 3:30 p.m. to the report of two workers stuck on a hydraulic man lift approximately 100 feet in the air at Cargill Salt. Fire crews found the workers uninjured approximately 70 feet off the ground. The HFD says the lift had mechanical problems and could not be lowered to the ground. In less than 15 minutes, Hutchinson Fire was able to use a 100-foot aerial ladder to get the men off the lift, onto the aerial platform, and to the ground. Source: [...]

Shop With a Cop helps 30 children with Christmas

info2023-12-20T10:44:20-06:00December 20th, 2023|

Sunday marked the ninth year that Parsons police provided a little Christmas cheer to the community with its annual Shop With a Cop program. The Parsons Police Department helped 30 children from the community shop for Christmas. The partnership with USD 503 identifies children and families in need. The continued support from The Duke Mason Band, which does a yearly Christmas concert and donates the proceeds to the program, along with the personal donations from community members provided the means of helping. The department also gets donations yearly from St. Vincent de Paul and has a great partnership with Walmart for [...]

City leaders approve zones for drinking alcohol in two Topeka neighborhoods

info2023-12-20T10:39:12-06:00December 20th, 2023|

Topeka city leaders have approved designated zones for drinking alcoholic beverages in the Capital City. At Tuesday's City Council meeting, members voted to approve certain common consumption areas (CCA). Earlier this year, Governor Laura Kelly signed a bill to allow local governments to create designated areas for drinking. The city looked to the stakeholders in Topeka to create CCAs in high-traffic areas. Topeka City Council members unanimously approved designated areas in NOTO and downtown Topeka to become CCAs. For NOTO, the CCA is outlined by Fairchild Street as the north boundary, Norris Street as the south boundary, Quincy Street as the east [...]

Feds tout pedestrian, cyclist safety measures in new road design rules

info2023-12-20T07:50:38-06:00December 20th, 2023|

The federal government issued new road design standards Tuesday for the first time in 14 years, and Biden administration officials say the long-delayed manual will make roads safer for walkers, cyclists and even motorists on crowded streets. The latest edition of the "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways,” a go-to reference for traffic engineers, includes new advice on how state and local governments should set speed limits. The new standards downplay—but do not eliminate—long-standing guidance that instructs engineers to set speed limits at a rate that 85% of drivers travel under. Safety advocates have argued that the 85th-percentile rule [...]

City of Salina website set to be the official city ‘newspaper’ for public notices

info2023-12-20T07:48:31-06:00December 20th, 2023|

The City of Salina is moving more into the digital age after it decided to use its own website to publish notices beginning with the new year. This move comes after the city commission Monday adopted a resolution to designate the city's website as the official city "newspaper." While the change in official newspapers begins Jan. 1, the city has already taken steps to have notices also published on its website, which was updated in August, in anticipation of this move and to make sure that the notice function on the site was working properly. "Back in August, the city commission [...]

Some Kansas towns are using AI-powered tools to try to attract people and businesses

info2023-12-19T07:22:50-06:00December 19th, 2023|

AI is doing everything from making art to writing computer software, and now community leaders in western Kansas are hoping it can help them crack the code for bringing people and businesses to their areas. The rural communities are turning to AI to identify the businesses, services and housing residents need. That helps them target the types of businesses they should work to attract and where housing is needed to buck long-term trends of rural population loss.... Using AI-powered foot traffic software, officials in Seward, Finney and Ford counties now can track when people come to town and where they shop [...]

New trails in Rossville are connecting and invigorating this Shawnee County community

info2023-12-19T07:20:45-06:00December 19th, 2023|

New trails are creating buzz in Rossville. Phase 1 of the new Rossville Community Trail, a quarter-mile stretch of concrete, starts at the Rossville Fire Department just south of US-24 highway and circles around the nearby high school to the east. Phases 2 and 3 are expected to complete the nearly 1.5-mile route by next year. To the west of the new concrete paths are another first for the town: a natural surface trail spanning about 0.65 of a mile that was completed earlier this year. The two new trails are just the beginning for the Shawnee County community looking to [...]

Purge of some city licenses would affect Wichita clairvoyants, auctioneers, others

info2023-12-18T12:42:43-06:00December 18th, 2023|

The city of Wichita is expected to move forward with a purge of unused and outdated licensing requirements. Fortune-tellers, auctioneers and airport limousine operators are among those who may soon be free of the legal requirement to obtain a license from the city. The City Council will vote Tuesday on a proposal to strike 15 such licensing requirements from the books. “There are a lot of changes that we want to do, but we thought we’d pick basically the low-hanging fruit first and go for the easy ones that we don’t use very often,” Assistant City Attorney Jan Jarman told City [...]

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