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Century-old bridge to be replaced

A bridge on East Barton County Road crossing Walnut Creek that was built about a 100 years ago will be replaced after the County Commission Wednesday morning approved the project. “It’s one that we’ve been in discussions with for quite a few years wanting to get it replaced because it’s a narrow bridge, 19 feet wide,” said County Engineer Barry McManaman. “Farm equipment has some trouble getting through, in fact, they can’t get through there.”
Source: Great Bend Tribune

Ranson Financial2023-06-28T23:58:47-05:00June 28, 2023|News|

Seven new warehouses coming near Integra Technologies site in Bel Aire

Michael Le had been eyeing Bel Aire for warehouse development even before Integra Technologies chose to locate in the city. “I was going to build it regardless,” he said of what he’s calling his Bayside industrial development. He said tax incentives in Bel Aire make doing business there attractive. However, he said, the microchip manufacturing and testing plant’s decision to locate a 1-million-square-foot building at the southeast corner of Rock Road and K-254 gives him even more confidence to build close by — across from Wichita Hoops, which is near 53rd North and Webb Road.
Source: Wichita Eagle

Ranson Financial2023-06-28T13:02:47-05:00June 28, 2023|News|

Tornado siren failure being addressed by county

A recent spot of severe weather raised some concerns for Derby residents, as a number of outdoor tornado sirens failed to go off in the midst of a tornado warning issued on June 17. District 5 Sedgwick County Commissioner Jim Howell, representing Derby, voiced some of his constituents’ concerns at the commission’s staff meeting on June 20. Sedgwick County Emergency Management Director Julie Stimson confirmed her department is working to resolve the issue. Per a release from the Sedgwick County Emergency Management Department, following the issuance of three tornado warning polygons by the National Weather Service on June 17, multiple means of public warning were triggered including wireless emergency alerts (WEA) to cellphones, the emergency alert system (EAS) over radio/television, NOAA weather radios, billboards, Sedgwick County’s Civic Ready Alerts and the outdoor warning system.
Source: Derby Informer | News

Ranson Financial2023-06-28T09:28:08-05:00June 28, 2023|News|

Torline creates collection brick by brick

North Newton resident John Torline, all in all, just wants to put another brick in the wall. But he doesn’t want to do that to oppress people, as the Pink Floyd song implies. He just wants to do it for his brick collection. The wall on the back of the Torlines’ outdoor freestanding fireplace contains various bricks from different Kansas towns, all with writing on them. One says, “Don’t Spit on Sidewalk.” “When I was growing up, my oldest cousin built a fireplace in Wichita,” Torline said. “He used bricks from brick factories that were from Kansas. Just about every town in southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri—about every little town had brick factories.”
Source: Harvey County Now

Ranson Financial2023-06-28T13:05:34-05:00June 28, 2023|News|

70 years ago downtown KCK was a shopping entertainment hub. How has it changed?

Years ago, the “other” Kansas City — the one in Kansas — had its own busy downtown. Though less grand than its Missouri cousin, a stretch of Minnesota Avenue west of 7th Street was lined for decades with shops, banks, theaters and eateries. The addition of the towering Town House Hotel came in 1951, which attracted celebrities performing in the area like country singer Patsy Cline. She stayed there the night after her concert at Memorial Hall. Sadly, it was her last one. Cline died in a plane crash on the way back to Nashville A view of the same scene in 2023 shows some storefronts and the tall tower still standing in the background — it’s now a home for seniors.
Source: KC Star Local News

Ranson Financial2023-06-28T09:22:15-05:00June 28, 2023|News|

50,000 people will flood into small Kansas town of Wamego on Tuesday

In the Pyro Crew’s planning lair — location undisclosed for security reasons — Chris Hupe produced a layout of the launch site and spread it out across a long table. He stood over the map like a general, stabbing a thick finger at various white squares. “Each of these boxes by themselves could be a small fireworks show,” Hupe said. “We have 81 of them.” He rattled off some more stats: a 225,000-square-foot site, 12,000 pounds of fireworks, 2,051 electronically triggered events, 800 hand-lit shells, 25 “dragons” that throw columns of flames 30 feet in the air. … On Tuesday evening, it will add up to Boomtown, a free pyrotechnic extravaganza that rockets the population of Wamego — a town otherwise best known for its Oz Museum — from 5,000 to something like 50,000 every Independence Day. Families arrive not just from neighboring towns but neighboring states to witness a 30-minute Fourth of July fireworks show that’s among the largest and most ambitious in the Midwest.
Source: Kansas City Star

Ranson Financial2023-06-28T13:16:23-05:00June 28, 2023|News|

Newton approves U.S. Golf Adaptive Open

Newton’s Sand Creek Station Golf Course will host the U.S. Golf Association’s Adaptive Open Championship in the coming year. The event will feature 96 men and women, in eight different impairment categories, to compete in the event. “We are here because we have a good partnership here,” said Greg Sanfilippo, senior director of championships for the U.S. Golf Association. “We’ve been here; we’ve done this. We’ll have an awesome championship here, should we be able to do that here in 2024.” Newton hosted the USGA Amateur Links Championship in 2014. The adaptive championship will take place in the second week of July 2024.
Source: Harvey County Now

Ranson Financial2023-06-28T13:16:40-05:00June 28, 2023|News|

Love of comics, cosplay marks 2023 Smallville Comic Con in Hutchinson

The Smallville Comic Con wrapped up another successful convention this past weekend for the 2023 gathering. This year marked the tenth anniversary of the convention, and many came to celebrate. …. “I think with (the con) being this far out west, it gives the chance for everybody around the community, the smaller towns, to actually be able to come in and enjoy the nerdy community,” [Wichita visitor] Ocelot said. “I always do a DC cosplay when I come here.”
Source: Hutch News

Ranson Financial2023-06-28T13:17:07-05:00June 27, 2023|News|

Hutchinson’s first Chalk the Town event will include activities, demonstrations

A Hutchinson artist and long-term substitute teacher has inspired a movement. Kara Vaughn, a local artist and long-term substitute teacher in Hutchinson Schools, is working in partnership with Downtown Hutch and the City of Hutchinson to launch the 2023 Chalk the Town event. Vaughn, who draws cartoonish chalk paintings on sidewalks, has garnered more than 30 million views on TikTok and around 400,000 followers. Vaughn had posted her drawings on TikTok (under Varakaughn).
Source: Hutch News

Ranson Financial2023-06-27T08:03:53-05:00June 27, 2023|News|

Eudora chooses interim city manager to take over top City Hall spot in growing community

As the city of Eudora gets ready to grow outward, it has looked inward to fill its top City Hall position. The Eudora City Commission on Monday agreed to hire Kevyn Gero as the community’s next city manager. Gero, a former city of Lawrence administrator, has been the assistant city manager in Eudora for about two years, and has been serving as Eudora’s interim city manager for the last six months. “Those six months in our interim role really cemented it for us,” Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin said in a brief interview with the Journal-World. … Prior to joining the Eudora city staff, Gero had worked for more than nine years in Lawrence City Hall. She had served as a management analyst in the city Municipal Services and Operations department, and also played a key role in obtaining accreditation for the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical department.
Source: LJWorld

Ranson Financial2023-06-27T07:43:16-05:00June 27, 2023|News|

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Century-old bridge to be replaced

Seven new warehouses coming near Integra Technologies site in Bel Aire

Tornado siren failure being addressed by county

Torline creates collection brick by brick

70 years ago downtown KCK was a shopping entertainment hub. How has it changed?

50,000 people will flood into small Kansas town of Wamego on Tuesday

Newton approves U.S. Golf Adaptive Open

Love of comics, cosplay marks 2023 Smallville Comic Con in Hutchinson

Hutchinson’s first Chalk the Town event will include activities, demonstrations

Eudora chooses interim city manager to take over top City Hall spot in growing community

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