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Jail time for owners whose dogs bark loudly? One Ohio city councilman thinks so

info2018-10-16T08:23:52-05:00October 16th, 2018|

The Akron City Council has scrapped legislation that could have imposed jail time on dog owners whose pets bark loudly. City Council on Monday voted to follow the recommendation of its Public Safety Committee to not approve legislation calling for the increased penalties. Councilman Russ Neal Jr.'s proposed legislation included increasing nuisance barking from a minor misdemeanor with a $100 maximum fine to a fourth-degree misdemeanor with a $250 maximum fine and up to 30 days in jail. Councilman Donnie Kammer says the citywide conversation about loud barking dogs will continue, but says he does not expect legislation coming back to [...]

New BravoTV series “Welcome to Waverly” brings “seven professionals from major metropolitan areas” and transports them to the small town of Waverly, Kansas, population 563

info2018-10-16T08:41:32-05:00October 16th, 2018|

Get ready to break out of your bubble. Bravo's new four-part event series, Welcome to Waverly, will open your eyes to new people and experiences when it premieres every night at 10/9c from Monday, October 22 through Thursday, October 25. Welcome to Waverly will explore a major issue facing the United States today: the country's divide among big cities vs. small towns and how to bridge that gap. How will this new series accomplish such a seemingly huge undertaking, you ask? Well, we're taking a diverse group of seven professionals from major metropolitan areas and transporting them to the small town [...]

Garden City responds warmly to documentary

info2018-10-16T08:27:25-05:00October 16th, 2018|

More than 120 people gathered in the Garden City High School auditorium Wednesday for the world premiere of “Strangers in Town,” a documentary about Garden City from out-of-town filmmakers, getting a taste of the layers of the area’s blend of cultures and getting a glimpse of their city as viewed from the outside. The documentary, created by co-directors Stephen Lerner and Reuben Aaronson and director of photography Jim Jewell, explored the immigrant experience in Garden City, from the diverse school district local children grew up in, to what the city, police department and other local entities did to offer support, to [...]

Lawrence city leaders plan to continue conversation about consolidation of city and county governments

info2018-10-16T06:48:43-05:00October 16th, 2018|

The city’s interest in consolidating city and county governments has created some tension between the two governing bodies, but Lawrence city commissioners plan to continue the conversation. Lawrence city commissioners raised the topic with Douglas County commissioners during a joint meeting last month, but county commissioners said they were not interested in the possibility and that they didn’t think county residents who live outside Lawrence would support it. City commissioners, though, would like the two governing bodies to have an informed conversation about the pros and cons of unification and how it might benefit all local taxpayers. Read more: LJworld.com.

City satisfies requirements for ADA compliance; File closed

info2018-10-15T07:27:56-05:00October 15th, 2018|

Independence Safety and Code Enforcement Director David Cowan has received official notification from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) acknowledging the city’s successful compliance with the department’s mandate for Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) improvements. The original “Project Civic Access” (PCA) settlement agreement dated April 29, 2011, required a major city-wide improvement effort to improve accessibility to sidewalks, municipal buildings and facilities. With the help of grant funding and City of Independence investment, a multi-year phased project was implemented with ongoing progress reporting to the DOJ. The ADA projects to date total more than $3 million, and have included more than [...]

Salina to reconsider reprimand of former commissioner

info2018-10-15T07:26:37-05:00October 15th, 2018|

City commissioners also are scheduled to reconsider the 2017 sanction of former commissioner Jon Blanchard. According to meeting packet information, at the commission’s September 17, 2018, meeting, city staff was directed “to assemble a factual record of the ethics sanction given to former Commissioner Blanchard in 2017 and schedule a reconsideration of the sanction” for Monday’s meeting. On November 20, 2017, the city commission, by a 3-2 vote, approved reprimanding “Blanchard based on a violation to the City of Salina Ethics Section 4(e)(2),” according to the minutes from the November 20, 2017, meeting. At the time, Blanchard was accused of violating [...]

Dodge City Boot Hill Museum plans expansion project

info2018-10-15T07:23:47-05:00October 15th, 2018|

Groundbreaking for an expansion project at the Dodge City Boot Hill Museum is scheduled for Nov. 1. Plans are to construct a new 12,000-square-foot building to house nine new exhibits, a gift shop and a 3,000-square foot temporary exhibit hall. Daily gunfights, shows, and dinners will continue during the summer season as they have for more than 60 years. The museum expansion project will have an estimated cost of $5.5 million. STAR bond money will cover about 78 percent of the new building, leaving the museum to fund the rest. The museum has raised $1 million to fund most of the [...]

Letter carrier drives onto freshly laid road surface in Prairie Village causing thousands of dollars in damage

info2018-10-15T07:23:12-05:00October 15th, 2018|

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor clearly marked traffic barrier was going to keep one U.S. Postal Service worker from delivering the mail in Prairie Village yesterday. Road crews had recently completed a road microsurfacing project on 72nd Street east of Nall Ave. on Thursday when a mail carrier looking to make deliveries on the street arrived. The crews had put up barricades to keep traffic off the street while the thin layer of fresh asphalt emulsion cured. The driver apparently didn’t think those barricades were applicable to the U.S. Postal Service vehicle, though, and maneuvered around the barricade leaving [...]

Certified voting machines?

info2018-10-15T07:21:36-05:00October 15th, 2018|

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office failed to produce records this summer showing it had certified the voting equipment used by hundreds of thousands of Kansans. Kansas statute requires the Secretary of State to certify equipment before counties purchase it and to keep such certification on file. But the office, responding to a Kansas Open Records Act request in June, could provide only two letters of equipment certification that Kobach issued in the past five years. Yet some counties - including Reno and Finney, as well as Sedgwick, Wyandotte, and Shawnee - have purchased systems since October 2013 that were [...]

City of Leavenworth auctions old vending machines

info2018-10-15T07:15:01-05:00October 15th, 2018|

When the Leavenworth City Commission purchased a vacant downtown building this summer, the city inherited dozens of old vending machines. The machines, which were in the basement of 301 Delaware St., are now being sold by the city through an online auction service. “We’re not looking to make a lot money or anything on it,” said Mike McDonald, public works director for the city of Leavenworth. But McDonald said it would be a shame to dispose of the machines without giving collectors an opportunity to bid on them. There are 34 vending machines. Nineteen of them were designed for hot or [...]