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City Center Lenexa purchases final 4.9 acres from city of Lenexa

info2019-04-19T10:28:39-05:00April 19th, 2019|

The city of Lenexa is selling 4.9 acres of City Center property to City Center LLC, the developer that has been in a development agreement with the city for the past several years. The purchase agreement of 4.9 acres located in the center blocks of 87th Street Parkway west of Renner Boulevard will complete City Center Lenexa’s acquisition of all of the property covered by its development agreement with the city, according to a city memo. Lenexa first entered into a development agreement with Copaken White & Blitt in May 2006, according to the memo. Subsequently assigned to City Center Lenexa [...]

Roundabouts right-of-way property acquisitions to be considered by Hays city commission

info2019-04-19T10:27:04-05:00April 19th, 2019|

An engineering design supplement for the North Vine Corridor roundabout project will be considered by Hays city commissioners tonight. The agreement would give the engineering firm WSP more authority related to right-of-way property acquisitions needed as part of the project. When the initial engineering contract was awarded, the scope of the project had not yet been formally defined. “Without having the design started, we weren’t exactly sure which portions of property we would need to require right-of-way on,” said Jacob Wood, asst. city manager. “We felt like it was better to have this happen after the fact, once we had a [...]

Sales tax helping Junction City debt recovery

info2019-04-19T07:22:56-05:00April 19th, 2019|

The continuation of a one-cent sales tax will be crucial for Junction City’s debt recovery program. The tax is scheduled to expire December 31,2020 and with city commission approval could possibly go on the ballot this November for possible extension. Mayor Pat Landes told the city commission this week that if the city didn’t have the sales tax everyone’s property tax would have gone up at least 20 or 30 mills. “We’re still looking at that if we don’t renew it. ” Landes added, ” If we lose that ( sales tax ) we’re all in big trouble, especially property owners.” [...]

New stadium may have half the parking of Lawrence-Dumont. An expert says there’s enough

info2019-04-19T07:20:43-05:00April 19th, 2019|

There are enough public and private parking spaces downtown to serve the new baseball stadium, but not close-in, the head of a national parking company told a Wichita advisory group. Instead of a main parking lot right next to the ball park — the way it was at the now-demolished Lawrence-Dumont Stadium — parking for Wichita’s new Triple-A team will be a patchwork of existing public lots and garages, streetside parking, and office parking that is vacant during evenings and weekends. That’s the analysis by Jeff Wolfe, president and CEO of The Car Park Inc., who briefed the city’s Transit Advisory [...]

Leavenworth County elected officials to be removed from pay plan

info2019-04-19T07:19:36-05:00April 19th, 2019|

While they took no vote, Leavenworth County commissioners seemed to reach a decision Wednesday to remove the salaries of elected officials from a county pay plan. Commissioners discussed the issue during a work session, which took place Wednesday afternoon. The work session came after commissioners had met earlier in the day for a regular weekly meeting. Salaries of the county elected officials are set each year by the commission. But currently, the salaries of the elected officials follow the same pay plan used for employees of the county government. The elected officials include the commissioners as well as others such as [...]

Wind farm opponents speak again

info2019-04-19T07:17:29-05:00April 19th, 2019|

Opponents of a proposed wind farm spanning from Florence to Aulne to north of Peabody once again showed up at county commission meeting to ask for a moratorium on wind farm development. “What it comes down to, I think, is money,” said Hillsboro resident David Marsh. “If you have a moratorium, it will buy you time.” He said other counties have extended the time allowed for protest of wind farm zoning decisions. Peabody farmer Randy Eintzen said, "What we need is time to try to get through those issues, to figure out how we're going to get through this." Eintzen, who [...]

KSHSAA shares update on public-private high school sports dilemma after striking survey

info2019-04-18T14:18:06-05:00April 18th, 2019|

In late March, Paola High School principal Jeff Hines sat at attention listening to Bill Faflick speak at the Kansas State High School Activities Association’s executive board meeting and heard something promising. He even wrote it down. “This is step one,” Hines wrote, transcribing Faflick’s words. “It’s mission accomplished, but it doesn’t stop there.” Between executive board meetings held in January and March in Topeka, KSHSAA brought in representatives from every private school in Kansas to discus the findings of a January survey that showed more than 87 percent of Kansas high schools want a change to the state’s public-private dynamic. [...]

Scraping of right of ways has been done before in Wellington, Council learns

info2019-04-18T14:08:23-05:00April 18th, 2019|

Several Wellington residents have been wondering about the scraping of the right of ways occurring around town, especially alongside the curbing on U.S. 160. Wellington Director of Public Works Jeremy Jones said at Tuesday’s city council meeting periodically the curbs need to be scrapped due to sand build up accumulated from years of using a snow plow and traffic residue. The city has not done this process since before 2008. Jones said there are three reasons for this: 1) it helps with drainage, 2) it is easier to mow, and 3) makes it aesthetically pleasing. He said many of the curbs [...]

Newton/North Newton popular migrating stop for turkey vultures

info2019-04-18T14:33:47-05:00April 18th, 2019|

Nothing’s dead in North Newton. It just happens to be a pit stop for vultures. Last fall, Newton resident Howard Schrag counted about 90 turkey vultures flying around in the northern part of Newton/southern part of North Newton near the co-op/Northridge Elementary School/St. Matthew’s Church area. On Monday night, there were far fewer than that there, gliding on the breeze, letting it take them on the air as the sun set, spreading oranges, reds and yellows on the Newton landscape. Schrag, who has an advanced degree in animal behavior, said the turkey vultures now are migrating north following the winter, and [...]

Great Bend to receive two more firework displays

info2019-04-18T14:03:58-05:00April 18th, 2019|

Two more firework shows are scheduled this spring and summer after the Great Bend City Council approved the displays following a pair of Great Bend Bat Cats games. The summer collegiate baseball team’s manager Roger Ward met with City of Great Bend officials on April 4 to discuss the displays at certain home games. The safety area surrounding the launching site will only necessitate the short closing of the west roadway around Veterans Lake. “These would be Class C fireworks,” said Great Bend City Attorney Bob Suelter. “The fireworks will be set off near the center field fence. We have a [...]