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Giant Communications receives grant to expand service in Denison

info2022-11-17T00:41:43-06:00November 17th, 2022|

Giant Communications has been awarded nearly $900,000 in grant funds from the state to expand internet services to residents living in Denison and the surrounding area, Gov. Laura Kelly announced on Monday. “This grant will allow Giant to build fiber-to-the-home to the town of Denison and close surrounding areas,” said Austin Taylor, Giant Communications general manager. “This was one of our largest problem areas during the COVID pandemic, when attempting to connect homeschoolers, anyone in need of telemedicine and folks who needed to work from home.” A total of $15.7 million will be awarded to seven service providers, including Giant, that [...]

Hays USD 489 discusses potential branding changes

info2022-11-17T00:40:07-06:00November 17th, 2022|

The Hays USD 489 community could soon be debating on whether or not to change the high school's mascot: The Hays High Indians. That's why the district held a community conversation Tuesday night. The district's superintendent says the goal of the meeting was not to make any final decisions or changes but rather to create a "launch point" to gauge how the Hays community feels about the district's branding moving forward. Source: KSN-TV

How a Kansas ghost town got its name

info2022-11-17T00:32:59-06:00November 17th, 2022|

Tucked away in Butler County, not far from a bend in the Little Walnut River, lies the ghost town of Boder. There's not much left of the town itself. There's the old post office which closed shortly after the start of the 20th century, a farmhouse, the ruins of a grist mill, and the Little Walnut Pratt Truss Bridge, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. However, Boder isn't the town's true name. It's not even Bodarc, as it was often pronounced. Source: KSN-TV

Commissioner contends new Emporia policy prohibiting ‘unlawful camping’ on public property is aimed directly at local homeless population

info2022-11-17T12:07:00-06:00November 17th, 2022|

Emporia City Commissioners have enacted a new policy that will make “unlawful camping” in a public space a misdemeanor crime. The ordinance will establish a new city code prohibiting camping on public property without a permit. According to City Attorney Christina Montgomery, the city, in cooperation with the Emporia Police Department, will now begin developing the permit application process. Commissioners approved the ordinance 4-1 with commissioner Susan Brinkman serving as the lone no vote. During the meeting, Brinkman stated the ordinance was full of “sanitized language” and believes the ordinance directly targets the city’s homeless population. Source: KVOE Emporia Radio

Planners to consider container facility

info2022-11-17T00:27:03-06:00November 17th, 2022|

A Rose Hill man’s application to create a facility to modify shipping containers a mile south of Hillsboro will be reviewed Dec. 1 by the county planning and zoning board. Quentin Heidt wants to build a staging and operating location to modify new and recycled containers to customers’ specifications. Heidt listed one of his reasons as providing assets for community members. Source: PEABODY Gazette-Bulletin

Bodycam video shows Leawood Police pull woman from burning SUV

info2022-11-17T12:08:31-06:00November 17th, 2022|

Bodycam video released by Leawood Police show officers pulling a woman from a burning vehicle. A 51-year-old woman suffered severe burns Monday afternoon after her SUV crashed and caught fire near the Tomahawk Creek trailhead, just east of Tomahawk Creek Parkway and Town Center Drive. First responders got to the scene just before 2:10 p.m. and found the SUV flipped on its side, its front engulfed in flames. The video clip released by Leawood Police is just under minute long and shows the perspective of one arriving officer, who approaches the SUV as other officers and Leawood firefighters are attempting to extricate the [...]

Task force seeks retail ban on single-use bags, Dillons working on phased elimination

info2022-11-17T12:10:06-06:00November 17th, 2022|

Lori Lawrence, of Bag Free Wichita, and Sheila Regehr, of Dillons Food Stores based in Hutchinson, outlined on the Kansas Reflector podcast strategies aimed at taking a bite out of demand and supply of plastic bags. Lawrence is part of the Wichita City Council’s task force studying potential of an ordinance prohibiting use of plastic bags by businesses starting in 2023. Regehr is on Wichita’s task force but said Dillons, which is part of Kroger Co., has a plan to eliminate use of these bags in its stores by 2025. “I’ve been an environmentalist for some time and plastic bags are [...]

Future of Kansas town’s library uncertain after outpouring of support at commission meeting

info2022-11-17T00:14:51-06:00November 17th, 2022|

Following public outcry about censorship, the St. Marys City Commission decided to table a vote on renewing the Pottawatomie Wabaunsee Regional Library’s lease. The lease is under threat because the library refused to comply with the commission’s request to remove all LGBTQ, sexual, racial or otherwise “socially divisive” content from its shelves. But with the lease ending in December, the library is still in a precarious situation. Every chair in the commission meeting room was filled for Tuesday night’s discussion about the library, with residents lined up against the walls to listen to debate. The majority of residents who spoke said [...]

Lawrence City Commission wants to consider a moratorium for rule on downtown liquor sales

info2022-11-17T00:10:37-06:00November 17th, 2022|

Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday deferred an amendment to city code that would have allowed John Brown’s Underground to keep operating — but they want to look at ways to expand the opportunity to other businesses, too. A long-standing city rule requires establishments with liquor licenses to derive no more than 45% of their sales from liquor. Passed in 1994, the rule allowed exemptions for 29 existing locations. The code still exempts new bars that open in the same buildings as any of those original 29. JBUG had maintained compliance with the rule in recent years by factoring in food sales [...]

Fed’s Daly sees rates rising at least another percentage point as ‘pausing is off the table’

info2022-11-16T10:53:06-06:00November 16th, 2022|

San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly said Wednesday she expects the central bank to raise interest rates at least another percentage point, and possibly more, before it can pause to evaluate how the inflation fight is going. Daly told CNBC in a live interview that her most recent estimate in the Fed's summary of economic projections puts the benchmark overnight lending rate around 5%. She added that the right range is probably from 4.75% to 5.25% from its current targeted range of 3.75%-4%. "I still think of that as a reasonable landing place for us before we hold, and the [...]

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