info2020-04-21T09:30:16-05:00April 21st, 2020|
Southeast Kansas residents are getting creative in an effort to support local businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Fort Scott residents have created a fundraiser on Facebook to help keep local workers who’ve been laid off, paid. Anyone can donate then, organizers purchase gift cards from businesses that have been closed. (Read more: KSNF/KODE – FourStatesHomepage.com)
info2020-04-21T09:07:03-05:00April 21st, 2020|
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.
info2020-04-21T09:05:19-05:00April 21st, 2020|
A pair of streetlight improvement projects will bring brighter, more efficient lighting to areas of east Lenexa. The City of Lenexa has begun replacing some of the streetlights in Old Town and in the area around Rosehill Road and 103rd Street. See maps of the Old Town project and the Rosehill Road/103rd Street project for impacted streets. The City currently leases streetlights on the wood power poles from Every, while the remaining streetlights were purchased from KCP&L (Evergy) in 2009. All of these lights will be replaced with City-owned streetlight poles with energy-efficient LED fixtures. (Read more: Lenexa)
info2020-04-21T09:01:47-05:00April 21st, 2020|
Donors in Peabody have committed over $5000 to the Peabody Community Foundation (PCF) Community Relief Fund in support of the COVID-19 relief efforts. As a result of incoming donations and anticipated needs, the PCF board took action to open The Peabody Community Relief Fund. “I was contacted two weeks ago by a supporter of PCF wondering what we were going to do in the face of economic hardship brought on by the pandemic,” said Becky Nickel, PCF Director. “The board took action so that funds can be granted locally.” The Peabody Community Relief Fund is not a traditional endowment, but rather [...]
info2020-04-21T09:01:57-05:00April 21st, 2020|
Wichita USD 259 is moving forward with plans for in-person graduation ceremonies, if COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. USD 259 Superintendent Alicia Thompson updated school board members during a meeting Monday. Members of the Student Advisory Council told administrators they wanted to have events where they could wear their caps and gowns. Dr. Thompson said events like this could take place before the end of July if restrictions on large gatherings are lifted. Dr. Thompson said plans are underway for televised graduation-style events for each USD 259 high school. Those events are expected in May. (Read more: KAKE - News)
info2020-04-21T09:02:08-05:00April 21st, 2020|
Contact tracing is a research method used to find most or all contacts a COVID19 positive person has before, during and after a diagnosis. It is happening on a limited basis in Sedgwick County. KU School of Medicine-Wichita says Dr. Garold Minns has been doing contact tracing by himself and with current county staff. Dr. Minns is the Sedgwick County health officer. (Read more: KSN-TV)
info2020-04-21T09:02:28-05:00April 21st, 2020|
The state rushed newly acquired testing supplies and personal protection gear into southwest Kansas to bolster the response to expanding clusters of coronavirus infection linked to the region’s large meat processing facilities, officials said Monday. Mike Beam, secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said Ford, Seward and Finney counties in southwest Kansas and Lyon County all host processing facilities that have been challenged by spread of the virus. COVID-19 has killed 100 Kansans and infected nearly 2,000 people during the past two months. “This is not a food safety issue,” Beam said. “There is no evidence of food-to-food packaging being [...]
info2020-04-21T09:03:09-05:00April 21st, 2020|
The Wellington City Council voted unanimously to enter into a non-disclosure agreement with Ascension Via Christi, of Wichita, which has expressed an interest in providing emergency room services in the closed Sumner Community Hospital building. “The city has been contacted by a couple of other groups with an interest in providing health care services,” City Manager Shane Shields told the council, during the Tuesday meeting. “The interest by Via Christi in providing full emergency room services appears to be the most positive possibility at this time.” Ascension Via Christi reopened emergency services at the Fort Scott Hospital after it closed a [...]
info2020-04-21T09:04:26-05:00April 20th, 2020|
A Wichita-area nursing home with an outbreak of the novel coronavirus now has 42 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and two deaths as testing continues. The Clearwater Nursing and Rehabilitation Center coronavirus cluster had 29 additional residents test positive as of Monday, the Sedgwick County Health Department said in a news release. All 53 residents of the nursing home have been tested for COVID-19, though not all test results have been returned. An undisclosed number of staff who have worked at the facility members have also tested positive and some have quit. (Read more: Local News |)
info2020-04-21T09:03:47-05:00April 20th, 2020|
Oil futures plunged below zero on Monday, the latest never-before-seen number to come out of the economic coma caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Stocks and Treasury yields also dropped on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 down 1.8%, but the market’s most dramatic action by far was in oil, where the cost to have a barrel of U.S. crude delivered in May plummeted to negative $37.63. It was at roughly $60 at the start of the year. Traders are still paying $20.43 for a barrel of U.S. oil to be delivered in June, which analysts consider to be closer to the [...]
