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Lenexa’s City Center opens mixed-use residential/office space; Shawnee kicks off process to revitalize comprehensive plan

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Less than a year after breaking ground in Lenexa City Center, The Lofts at City Center, a mixed-use residential/office space, opened earlier this month. Representatives of Real Property Group and city leaders celebrated the opening with a ceremonial ribbon cutting on Sept. 15. The Lofts features 67 boutique apartments, 10,000 square feet of office space and an underground parking garage. The site also features amenities such as a fitness center and outdoor entertainment facilities such as fire pits, BBQ grills, outdoor TV, pool and hot tub. Artwork by Lenexa resident Catherine Kirkland of Kirkland Creative Art + Design is installed throughout the building. Source: Prairie Village [...]

Changes being discussed to Kansas Emergency Management Act

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Various state and community leaders spoke with legislators Wednesday in a committee hearing, seeking changes or wanting to keep parts to the Kansas Emergency Management Act. The Special Committee on the Kansas Emergency Management Act is reviewing the state’s virus response and is considering the next best steps regarding the state’s emergency management laws, including House Bill 2016, which details which powers Gov. Laura Kelly can and can’t use to respond to the pandemic. Source: State Government - The Topeka Capital-Journal

Municipal Bond Trends for September 23, 2020

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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.

Art gallery opens in downtown Chanute

info2020-09-24T10:01:30-05:00September 24th, 2020|

A New York couple starting anew have opened an art gallery in downtown Chanute. Named “The Old Normal,” the business at 214 W. Main opened Sept. 16 and includes limited-edition lithographs, jewelry, crystals and other items. Owners Mikey Feldman and Kayleigh Wilson came to Chanute in August. “We were collectors of art,” Feldman said. They had a successful dog-walking business in New York City and sold jewelry online before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Source: The Chanute Tribune

Topeka, Shawnee County Public Library documenting local pandemic stories for exhibit

info2020-09-24T10:00:13-05:00September 24th, 2020|

Workers at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library are collecting stories of how people spent their time during the pandemic. The library plans to display the stories and pieces collected from people in a new exhibit. They will show stand-out moments during these past months like the toilet paper shortage. The exhibit will have pieces from the Black Lives Matter movement which is also going on right now. Workers at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library are collecting stories of how people spent their time during the pandemic. Source: KSNT News

KS’ rural hospitals skeptically view federal COVID funds

info2020-09-24T09:59:14-05:00September 24th, 2020|

The money lent from the federal government is meant to help hospitals and other health care providers weather the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet some hospital administrators have called it a payday loan program that is now brutally due for repayment at a time when the institutions still need help. David Usher, chief financial officer for a 12-bed rural hospital in western Kansas, is sitting on $1.7 million he’s scared to spend. The money lent from the federal government is meant to help hospitals and other health care providers weather the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet some hospital administrators have called it a payday loan [...]

Florence moves to clean up rundown houses

info2020-09-24T09:57:37-05:00September 24th, 2020|

Florence’s standards board is mailing notices to 30 properties not in compliance with Florence city codes, according to standards board member Darla Spencer, but there are two properties that especially concern her. The homes, one on 6th St. and the other on 7th St., are in poor condition and do not have running water or sewage, Spencer said during Monday’s city council meeting. “We felt like there had to be an ordinance that it’s in violation of,” she said. “I don’t know how someone can live in town at a property that doesn’t have city sewer or water.” Source: Marion County [...]

Barber County man attacked by bees says sheriff deputy saved his life

info2020-09-24T09:56:58-05:00September 24th, 2020|

"I was scared to death… I was scared because I didn't know what the outcome was going to be," said Withrow. When harvesting, beekeepers use smoke to calm the bees down during the process. But this time, it didn't work. The angry swarm of bees attacked him, getting inside his suit. "There were several hundred bees on my face by the time I got away. And I knew in the end that I had to get the veil off and out of the yard completely in under a hydrant to kind of wash them off," said Withrow. His wife called 911. [...]

Allen County considers transportation option

info2020-09-24T09:55:42-05:00September 24th, 2020|

Jessica Thompson, Thrive director of development, also spoke with commissioners about the possibility of moving forward on a new county-wide transportation system. Thompson noted that the cost of the program for the county — which would involve new vehicles that take residents of any age to almost anywhere — would run about $52,000 in its initial year, and then drop to between $20,000 and $30,000 in following years. Source: The Iola Register

Hutchinson Fire Department Members Heading to Wyoming

info2020-09-24T09:53:27-05:00September 24th, 2020|

On Tuesday September 22, 2020, just before 0900, the Hutchinson Fire Department received a request for mutual aid through the Kansas Forestry Service for assistance at a growing fire in Wyoming. Orders were received to arrive in Laramie, Wyoming by 1800 on September 23, 2020. The Hutchinson Fire Department deployed a team of three wildland certified firefighters and one brush truck at 0600 on September 23rd. The growing fire is named the Mullin Fire. The Mullin Fire is only 2% contained and growing rapidly with high winds expected on Thursday and Friday. The Mullen Fire is burning in the Medicine Bow [...]