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Park City announces new downtown development, seeks public input

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Dana Walden, assistant city administrator for Park City, says the downtown development "Needs to be Park City. What does Park City want here? Who do we want to be? We're reaching out to our citizens and saying what would you like to see.” With the new Amazon distribution center just down the road, the new district is also an opportunity to boost quality of life for potential new residents. “What is something that we want to keep that money here and we want to provide those amenities that people want to have when they're here" said Walden. Source: KAKE - News

Local artists get creative with sprucing up NOTO

info2021-01-21T06:57:46-06:00January 20th, 2021|

Two local artists continue to leave their mark on the art community by adding a little extra flair to the light poles in the NOTO Arts and Entertainment District. Eight structural banners were fastened to light poles in lieu of some of the traditional art banners that feature a variety of local artists from the community. Brainstorming for these metal artwork pieces first began in the Spring of 2018. The two artists, Michael Bradley and Larry Peters, said the art pieces are made out of mostly aluminum and silk screen frames. When a request for spare aluminum parts was made by [...]

Lawrence to consider new scoring guide to help make spending decisions

info2021-01-20T08:02:03-06:00January 20th, 2021|

As part of their effort to better prioritize their budget decisions, city leaders will soon consider a new scoring guide that would affect how millions of tax dollars are spent. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider approving a proposed priority-based budgeting scoring matrix, which will identify spending priorities by scoring city programs against the commission’s new strategic plan. Danielle Buschkoetter, budget and strategic initiatives administrator, said the matrix was intended to build on the city’s recent budget prioritization efforts. Source: LJWorld.com.

Municipal Bond Trends for January 19, 2021

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The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of MBIS "investment grade" yields. Every issuer's credit is different. For rates that may be applicable to your municipality, contact our Municipal Bond Advisors, Larry Kleeman and Beth Warren.

Sedgwick County Electric Cooperative breaks ground

info2021-01-20T07:55:45-06:00January 20th, 2021|

A solar energy project is bringing sun farms to Kansas. Twelve Kansas electric companies have signed an agreement with Today’s Power, Inc. This agreement ensures rate stability for the next 25 years. “I just feel like we all work hard for our money, and anything that Sedgwick County Electric can do to save our members money, especially in these times is just going to be helpful,” said Scott Ayres, CEO of Sedgwick County Electric Cooperative. Once complete, the farms will generate more than 20 megawatts of solar power across 800 miles of land in the Sunflower State. Source: KSN-TV

Woman buys, relocates grandmother’s old house in Hillsboro

info2021-01-20T07:53:33-06:00January 20th, 2021|

For Marlene Richards, life came full circle Wednesday when her grandmother’s house, where she spent her childhood Christmases, was settled onto her property in Hillsboro. Clusters of people gathered in the cold morning air to watch as Unruh House Movers of Galva lifted the home onto the back of a semi and painstakingly moved it from the corner of Grand and Washington Sts. to N. Cedar St. Police officers and fire chief Ben Steketee provided traffic control... Source: HILLSBORO Star-Journal

Green Team Southwestern and City of Winfield offer e-waste recycling event

info2021-01-20T07:51:58-06:00January 20th, 2021|

The Green Team of Southwestern College will again collaborate with the City of Winfield for an e-waste recycling event from 3 to 6 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Arkansas City/Winfield Recycling Center at Seventh Avenue and D Street in Strother Field. The Green Team will accept donations to help offset the cost of transporting electronics to the recycler. Use the east driveway to enter the recycling center building and exit out the west driveway after dropping off electronics. Source: Cowley CourierTraveler

From ‘Early Settlements of Atchison County’: Kapioma

info2021-01-20T07:51:14-06:00January 20th, 2021|

Most of the early Indian settlements in Atchison County were located on creeks, the most important of these being Grasshopper Creek, now known as the Delaware River. There is some controversy as to how this stream got its name. According to one account, it was named in 1819 by the French trader Joseph Roubideaux, the founder of St. Joseph. While camped along this stream, a great swarm of grasshoppers alighted and in a few days ate all the grass from the river bottoms. From this circumstance he named the river Sautrelle, the French word for grasshopper. Source: Atchison Globe Now

RCPD seeing significant improvements in retention of dispatchers

info2021-01-20T07:48:51-06:00January 19th, 2021|

RCPD Retention rates for Riley County dispatchers have improved significantly since 2019, according to a report from Riley County Police Department Director Dennis Butler. “I expected it to take about two years to achieve the gains that you’re seeing in this report, which has cut our vacancy rate in half,” Butler told Riley County Law Board members Tuesday. “I really thought it would take longer to get where we are now, but I’m very pleased and we’re continuing to make progress.” Source: 1350 KMAN

Kansas lawmakers push health officials for answers as Phase 2 of vaccine rollout nears

info2021-01-20T07:50:15-06:00January 19th, 2021|

Kansas lawmakers grilled state health officials with questions about coronavirus vaccine rollout in a committee meeting Tuesday. But, some left the meeting with their concerns unaddressed and frustrated with the department's lack of communication. "We want to make sure that all Kansans that want to have the COVID vaccine have that available to them, and so communication is really going to have to improve," said Sen. Molly Baumgardner, R-Louisburg. Baumgardner and other lawmakers shared in the concern that not all long-term care facilities were receiving vaccines as quickly as skilled nursing homes... Source: KSN-TV