A school in western Kansas has canceled class for the second day in a row due to storm damage on Sunday, the district says. According to a release, USD 216 Deerfield will not have school on Tuesday as they work to clear storm damage and, “make the school safe for staff and students.” School was also canceled on Monday due to the damage. It is currently unknown when classes will resume.
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In a September 5 news release, the City of Wichita states that residents with irrigation systems connected to the city’s water system are required to annually have their backflow tested. The due date for the annual backflow certification was May 30, and the city says multiple notices have gone out to accounts that have been non-compliant.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing more than $49 million for water and wastewater infrastructure repairs and upgrades in four towns and one county in rural Kansas. “Our rural communities in Kansas are in desperate need of investment and infrastructure. Water and sewer is no exception to that,” said Christy Davis, the state director of USDA Rural Development for Kansas. The cities of Girard, Humboldt, Mankato and Perry, as well as Neosho County will receive the funding. The money comes from the USDA’s Water and Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program.
Source: KCUR News
Firefighters with the Hutchinson Fire Department participated in two 9/11 stair climbs over the weekend. Eleven firefighters participated in events in Wichita and Kansas City. Nine firefighters from Hutchinson climbed 110 flights of stairs at the Epic Center in Downtown Wichita on Saturday, while two firefighters climbed the same number of stairs at the Skyline Collection building located in Downtown Kansas City on Sunday. Each firefighter carried with them the name of a firefighter who died at the World Trade Center during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. There were 343 New York City Fire Department (FDNY) firefighters, paramedics, and one New York Fire patrolman who died that day, along with 23 New York Police Department and 37 Port Authority police officers.
Source: KSN-TV
The Winfield 9/11 Memorial Stair climb was held Monday on the 22nd anniversary of the attacks. The event took place at the 77 Steps of Southwestern College’s Christy Administration Building at 100 North College Ave. It was the sixth year Winfield Fire and EMS hosted the stair climb to honor the victims of that day. To commemorate the 110 stories the First Responders had to climb in the World Trade Towers, firefighters climbed the 77 stairs 27.5 times.
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Nearly 40 goats were released in Lincoln Park on Monday to help the Pittsburg Parks and Recreation Department control some overgrowth along the creek north of Lincoln Center. The goats belong to Robert Dutton, owner of Oscar-Mike Goat Rental. A 12-year veteran of the National Guard, Dutton chose the name Oscar-Mike, which is the phonetic pronunciation of the letters “O” and “M,” is military shorthand for “on the move” as a nod to his military background. “I figured the goat are always on the move, so it made perfect sense to me,” Dutton said. What he didn’t count on was his non-military friends not understanding the shorthand and asking who Oscar and Mike are. Dutton began renting out his goats last year to test the waters and see if a viable business would be practical. This year, Dutton decided to go all in and advertise his goats commercially.
Source: Morning Sun
Collaboration, and school and town pride were the themes for the ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday morning celebrating the installation of Newton High School and Bethel College banners in downtown Newton. The event was at the Newton Train Station park. “A great day,” said Sal Lujano, who came up with the banner idea. “Everything is falling in line. The weather is great. I want just to kind of repeat the word collaboration because it has been a collaboration of many people coming together to reach this goal and lift our schools and our students and highlight them with pride in our downtown. I feel that this week’s theme is ‘We are in this together.’”
Source: Harvey County Now
In just a few years, a $300-million biomedical campus is expected to rise in place of nondescript parking lots near Broadway and William streets and a neighboring city transit center destined for replacement. It’s a landmark endeavor in downtown Wichita’s history, and the project’s driving visionary says it couldn’t have happened without being audacious. “What all this has taught me is that you need to have big, bold ideas,” Wichita State University president Rick Muma said. “I think sometimes, in the Midwest, people are not prone to have those kinds of big ideas.” Muma says conversations and planning surrounding the project — on track to begin construction in 2024 and led by the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, Wichita State University and WSU Tech — started several years ago.
Source: Wichita Business Journal
A contentious battle over whether Prairie Village residents will vote this fall on restructuring the city government reached a screeching halt Friday afternoon. As the city and a group of homeowners awaited clarification on a judge’s ruling over proposed ballot initiatives, the Johnson County election office said the fight is essentially over for now. Election Commissioner Fred Sherman said the deadline has passed for his office to have time to place new questions on the Nov. 7 ballot. But the group of homeowners behind the initiatives, PV United, hasn’t given up. In a letter to the election office shared with The Star, the group urged Sherman to place the issue on the ballot.
Source: Joco 913 News
The Wichita City Council is set to approve a six-figure payout related to a 2019 incident where police officers stood outside of a house as a man killed his roommate by stabbing her up to 50 times. The family of the victim, Devin Andrea Cook, had sued the city in state court over officers’ failure to intervene during the deadly assault. The agenda for Tuesday’s meeting includes the authorization of a $262,500 payment as “full settlement of all claims against the officers and the City of Wichita” arising from a domestic violence incident on Nov. 23, 2019. That’s the day that police responded to a phone call from Jason McCaleb, who wanted his roommate, 28-year-old Cook, to vacate their south Wichita residence. After speaking with both roommates, police determined that they could not make Cook leave immediately because she had “established residency” at the house, including keeping clothes there and having house keys.
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