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Wind development in Reno and Sumner counties

info2019-06-27T09:28:08-05:00June 27th, 2019|

A 98-turbine wind farm that is to be located between Oxford and Wellington is moving forward after Sumner County officials last month signed an agreement with Wild Winds Energy Project LLC that would give the county upwards of $1 million a year in lieu of taxes. The project has a lifetime waiver from property taxes because it obtained a conditional use permit for the project from Sumner County in October 2016, months before state law was changed to limit property tax exemptions for such projects to just 10 years. Without an exemption, Wild Winds Energy Project would have incurred a property [...]

Osawatomie to discuss grocery equipment, fireworks Wednesday

info2019-06-27T12:46:43-05:00June 27th, 2019|

City Council members plan to discuss the fate of city-owned grocery store equipment and a proposal to lengthen the number of days fireworks can be purchased and discharged during its 6:30 p.m. meeting Wednesday, June 26, at Memorial Hall. The council moved the meeting up one day to Wednesday, because the Lights on the Lake parade will take place on what would have been the normal meeting date Thursday, June 27. Equip-Bid.com, an online auctioneering company, is purchasing the building on Sixth Street that formerly housed Ron’s Country Market, which closed its doors in 2017. The company was to close on [...]

WPD doubling efforts to help WFD enforce firework ordinance

info2019-06-27T09:20:09-05:00June 27th, 2019|

If you plan to shoot off fireworks you better follow the rules or face paying a fine. The fireworks ordinance has not changed but the enforcement is getting beefed up. “We had actually axon video of crowds yelling at the officers, yelling at the firefighter who was just doing they’re doing their jobs,” says Deputy Chief Stu Bevis. In one situation he says a firefighter and police officer were trying to write a citation and someone hit the firefighter with a firework. He says the firefighter was not injured. (Read more: KSN-TV)

City of Clearwater discontinuing local emergency services

info2019-06-27T09:15:19-05:00June 27th, 2019|

The City of Clearwater is closing its doors on their local emergency services. This comes after a city council decision to not fund the resource in the 2020 budget, and save the city more than $250,000. We talked to the mayor about the alternative, and what neighbors think of it. The mayor says Sedgwick County EMS will serve the community, a service residents already pay for in taxes. Some people say they accept the change, while others prefer it stay local. Another shake up with emergency services in Clearwater. But this time, the city says they’re doing away with it, and [...]

Pretty Prairie water plant nearly ready

info2019-06-27T12:46:21-05:00June 27th, 2019|

The city of Pretty Prairie’s new reverse osmosis water treatment plant should begin operating in July. A ribbon-cutting for the reverse osmosis plant, near the corner of Santa Fe and Booth, is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Friday, in conjunction with Final Friday’s Night on the Prairie. That’s a monthly celebration, from April through August, inaugurated this year. For decades, the nitrate level in the city’s municipal water supply has exceeded desired levels. The federal and state limit is 10 parts per million. The most recent test results showed Pretty Prairie’s water sample at 23 parts per million. (Read more: Local - [...]

Pittsburg adopts five-year financial plan

info2019-06-27T12:47:19-05:00June 27th, 2019|

City Manager Daron Hall and Finance Director Jamie Clarkson presented the City’s five-year financial forecast at Tuesday’s Pittsburg City Commission meeting, highlighting various aspects of the city’s fiscal planning through 2023. Prior to Tuesday’s presentation, on May 18, city commissioners and staff reviewed the financial forecast document, Clarkson noted. Following the presentation by Clarkson and Hall, the city commission voted to approve the plan, and Pittsburg Public Information Manager Sarah Runyon sent out a media release Wednesday summarizing it. “A recap of the five-year plan shows a steady increase in sales tax revenues, a healthy balance in reserves, declining debt service, [...]

Vote makes mayor, council available to attend Gary Woodland event

info2019-06-27T09:03:31-05:00June 27th, 2019|

Topeka’s mayor and city council on Tuesday changed the schedule for their meeting next week to enable them to attend a downtown block party for professional golfer and native Topekan Gary Woodland. The Greater Topeka Partnership will throw a free outdoor block party from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. July 2 in the 700 block of S. Kansas Avenue to celebrate the U.S. Open championship Woodland won June 16 in Pebble Beach, Calif. Woodland is expected to attend. Topeka’s governing body, consisting of the mayor and the nine city council members, had initially planned to meet at 6 p.m. July 2 in [...]

Citizen simulators say increase Wichita police and fire services, cut golf and arts

info2019-06-27T08:56:06-05:00June 27th, 2019|

Wichita’s fire and police departments got high scores while golf courses and cultural affairs departments suffered in budget simulations run by local residents, the city government said Wednesday. The city released the results of the budget simulation drill during a social media town hall Wednesday. About 1,400 residents responded to the invitation to complete the simulation, the first time the city has used that type of technology to help guide its spending decisions. (Read more: Local News |)

Hospital debt cost shrink

info2019-06-27T08:52:09-05:00June 27th, 2019|

Taxpayers will save more than $11 million over the next several years under a restructuring of the construction debt for the South Central Kansas Medical Center. The refinancing was approved Tuesday night by both the Building Commission and the City Commission. The current amount due on the original bonds issued in 2009 to build a replacement medical center that opened in 2011 is $37 million, with combined principal and interest. The $11 million savings will occur with a drop in the interest rate on the new bonds to between 3 and 5 percent, compared to the previous rate of between 4 [...]

Mini-Max grocery coming to Winfield to fill food desert

info2019-06-27T08:49:15-05:00June 27th, 2019|

The new Mini-Max grocery and variety store set to open in Winfield later this summer is part of a chain of stores owned by Bill Johnson, a Muskogee, Okla.-based entrepreneur with a goal of opening stores in food deserts to help serve others. The store in Winfield is scheduled to open around July 1, according to signs in the from of the former Save-A-Lot space at Winfield Plaza. Employees are currently being hired. The former J.C. Penney store next door is also set to reopen as a Mini-Max variety store, offering discounted home products. (Read more: www.ctnewsonline.com - RSS Results)