info2019-12-09T01:07:03-06:00December 9th, 2019|
Dave Schrag has retired from Marion Die and Fixture after 34 years, but Goessel’s mayor still has plenty on his plate. Schrag is heading up a $2.5 million project to fix and renovate the city’s sewer lines. Schrag said the sewer pipes had numerous cracks, which allowed rainwater to run into them, causing a buildup of water in the lagoons. (Read more: Marion County RECORD)
info2019-12-09T06:26:21-06:00December 9th, 2019|
Several Garden City downtown businesses buy goods from one another. They use these items from other merchants to make food, soap and beer to resell. By helping each other, these merchants are helping the downtown to thrive. They are revitalizing their community. “When our neighbors are doing well, we are all doing well,” said Alicia Gian-Maciulis, the owner of Roots Juice Co. & Wellness Studio. “We don’t want empty store fronts. We want unique stores and restaurants so people come here for a unique experience. We want it to be experiential.” There are 140 businesses in the Garden City downtown corridor, [...]
info2019-12-09T01:02:40-06:00December 9th, 2019|
PITTSBURG — At an event hosted Thursday evening to discuss future infrastructure and economic development, Deputy City Manager Jay Byers used an analogy from “Alice in Wonderland” to explain the city’s need for long-term planning. “We know about the Cheshire Cat in ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ right?” Byers said. “The Cheshire Cat asks Alice where she’s going and she doesn’t really know, and he says ‘Well it doesn’t really matter which path you take, then.’ I want to avoid the Cheshire Cat situation. If we have a plan, we need to know where we’re headed with that and where we want to [...]
info2019-12-09T01:00:11-06:00December 9th, 2019|
The top election officer of Johnson County resigned Thursday to close a nearly four-year period clouded by delays in reporting results of voting, the botched rollout of a new election computer system and a violation of the state’s open record law regarding rejection of nearly 1,000 ballots. Ronnie Metsker, former state legislator and Republican Party official, was appointed in 2016 and reappointed last year. He submitted his resignation effective immediately rather than complete a term due to expire in September 2022. Secretary of State Scott Schwab accepted the resignation, assumed supervision of the Johnson County Elections Office and opened the application [...]
info2019-12-09T00:58:43-06:00December 9th, 2019|
Overland Park Councilmember Faris Farassati, who announced this week he is considering running for Overland Park mayor in 2021, has often been at odds with the developers who come asking for tax incentives. It happened just Monday night, in fact, in a lengthy exchange with lawyer John Petersen about the Brookridge project. That conversation ended with a not-quite-convincing, “Thank you councilman. Always enjoy talking to you,” from Petersen. But across the state line, Farassati is beginning to get an idea of what it’s like to be on the receiving end of some of that skepticism. In Kansas City, Mo., cancer doctor Farassati himself [...]
info2019-12-09T00:57:20-06:00December 9th, 2019|
DODGE CITY, Kansas — The City of Dodge City Human Resources Office has announced that Megan Welsh has been selected as the next Convention and Visitors Bureau Manager to follow the retirement of current CVB Director, Jan Stevens. Welsh has worked for the Dodge City CVB as a tourism Coordinator since 2017. “I’m excited for Megan to move into this new role,” Stevens said. “She has done a great job for us in the two and a half years she has been with us, and based on all her qualifications along with her drive, and I believe she will excel.” (Read [...]
info2019-12-09T00:56:02-06:00December 9th, 2019|
Deputy city manager Doug Gerber told the Topeka City Council this past Tuesday he hoped to “take its temperature” regarding whether it wanted to continue to move toward potentially having the Topeka Zoo be managed by the nonprofit Friends of the Topeka Zoo. Councilmen Tony Emerson, Neil Dobler, Mike Lesser and Brendan Jensen replied by indicating they were warming up to that concept. The council had just heard support for it voiced by FOTZ President Fred Patton and Topeka Zoo director Brendan Wiley, who would continue to hold his position under the proposed arrangement. “I don’t know how to run a [...]
info2019-12-09T00:54:56-06:00December 9th, 2019|
EL DORADO — After a touching rendition of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance led by the Flint Hills Rock and Rollers, outgoing Mayor Vince Haines was recognized for his two terms as mayor of El Dorado. He was presented with gifts from city staff and his fellow commissioners, before handing the gavel to incoming mayor, Bill Young. In one of his last statements as Mayor, Haines shared his underlying vision when he took office four years ago. “Collaboration and communication with staff and the Commission, along with having trust and spirited dialog, and then being able to leave each [...]
info2019-12-09T00:53:29-06:00December 9th, 2019|
Justin Pregont is eager to show off his town to visitors, and quickly navigates downtown streets surrounding the city building where he works, in spite of the slow but steady stream of traffic. He grew up here in Atchison, and after a time away earning his master’s degree at the University of Kansas and working in a suburb of Kansas City, he returned. He’s now the assistant city manager and raising his family in the northeast Kansas town of 11,000. While he was pleased to return, his wife Melinda Pregont, freely admits that moving back to Atchison was not an easy [...]
info2019-12-09T00:52:05-06:00December 9th, 2019|
The ELC-Z zoning workshop series concluded Thursday evening at the Civic Building with a discussion on residential and other personal property topics. City of Emporia Planning and Zoning Officer Joe Foster and Lyon County Planning and Zoning Officer Sam Seeley took turns fielding questions from concerned parties, many of whom took issue not so much with proposed zoning regulations, but aspects of the comprehensive plan. In Nov. 2017, Lyon County and City of Emporia officials completed and unanimously adopted a joint zoning regulations draft known as PlanELC. Since then, both have been working to update their zoning regulations for its support [...]
