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McPherson business owners push for Sunday liquor sales

info2018-09-04T09:54:19-05:00September 4th, 2018|

McPherson residents are renewing a push to allow liquor sales on Sundays. Stores like Dotties Girls are closed on Sundays meaning McPherson residents have to drive out of town just to get alcohol, something the owners hope changes soon "There is so many people that have it, canton, Lindsborg, Salina, so we figured why not here in McPherson." Rhonda Boyston and Amy Russell own Dottie's Girls Liquor Store in McPherson. They've been pushing for Sunday sales for a while now, something they say is long over due. Mcpherson is one of the few cities in Kansas that does not have sales [...]

They created a new downtown ‘basically out of a field.’ Lenexa City Center is booming

info2018-09-04T10:32:10-05:00September 4th, 2018|

The line of customers formed early and kept coming Saturday at the Red Kitchen Tamales food stall in Lenexa City Center’s Public Market. Owner Alejandra de la Fuente paused briefly from serving to reflect on her start-up’s remarkable blossoming over the past year. “I think it’s amazing,” said de la Fuente. “There are always more and more people coming.” Red Kitchen Tamales’ success is just one example of the progress at Lenexa City Center, the new heart of the suburb 15 miles from Kansas City. It has sprouted from what was farmland not too long ago, west of Interstate 435 at [...]

Manhattan, Kan., hit by ’500-year event.’ Hundreds evacuated in flash flood.

info2018-09-04T10:32:35-05:00September 4th, 2018|

Nearly 9 inches of rain that pounded Manhattan, Kan., overnight and into the day Monday caused major flash flooding, forcing more than 300 people to evacuate their homes. Some 750 homes still lack power, the city of Manhattan reports. “We’re saying it is a 500-year event, perhaps a 700-, 800-year event,” said Manhattan’s Municipal Government Manager Mark Fehr at a 2 p.m. press conference Monday. Aerial photographs posted by the Riley County Police show buildings flooded nearly to their roofs. Two emergency shelters have been established, one at Cico Park and a second at Bramlage Coliseum. ‘”It is estimated that about [...]

Labette County supports widening U.S. 400

info2018-09-04T09:46:50-05:00September 4th, 2018|

Labette County commissioners on Friday approved a resolution that recommends prioritizing U.S. 400 in Southeast Kansas as the Kansas Department of Transportation and Kansas Legislature consider the next statewide transportation program. Jim Zaleski, the city of Parsons economic development director, brought the resolution to commissioners for their support. He said the Parsons City Commission will consider a similar resolution on Tuesday. The hope is that U.S. 400 will become a four-lane road in the near future. The highway recently received passing lanes and county commissioners and Zaleski noted on Friday that much of the right-of-way is probably purchased for the [...]

Parsons applying for grant to help fund, light and extend trail

info2018-09-04T09:43:56-05:00September 4th, 2018|

The city of Parsons likely will apply for a grant that would add lighting and concrete to much of the trail in Tolen Creek Park while also extending the path. During a Thursday afternoon work session, the Parsons City Commission gave its approval for the city staff to prepare an application for a Kansas Department of Transportation grant through the agency’s Transportation Alternatives Program. The grant would be used to pave the portion of the gravel trail that begins on Cattle Drive and follows the west side of the park to underneath the U.S. 400 bridge continuing northwest to near [...]

New ordinance in place for downtown sidewalks in Spring Hill

info2018-09-04T09:40:42-05:00September 4th, 2018|

Bicycles, skateboards and other similar modes of transportation are no longer allowed on the sidewalks in Spring Hill’s downtown area. At the Aug. 9 City Council meeting, Ordinance No. 2018-12 was approved, determining the use of bicycles, skateboards, coasters, roller skates, roller blades and other similar devices a public nuisance on the sidewalks of Main Street downtown. “The Governing Body finds that the use of such devices on the public sidewalks in the downtown area creates a hazard to the physical safety of the general public due to the limited setbacks between the sidewalk and the downtown structures fronting the [...]

Wyandotte Co. DA to create new unit for reviewing claims of wrongful convictions

info2018-09-04T09:39:44-05:00September 4th, 2018|

In his 18 months in office, Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree Sr. said he has heard from about hundreds of people in prison or from their families who claim wrongful convictions. Now, his office will have the funding and staff to look into some of those claims. A spokesman for the Unified Government Commission said the district attorney’s office will receive two payments of about $167,000 each in the fourth quarter of 2018 and fourth quarter of 2019 for a new conviction integrity unit. Dupree said at a press conference Friday that his office expects to hire three people [...]

Overland Park staff to formally recommend against relocating Farmers Market to Santa Fe Commons

info2018-09-04T09:37:47-05:00September 4th, 2018|

Overland Park staff next week will make a formal recommendation to the city’s Community Development Committee on a conceptual design plan for Santa Fe Commons that will not include relocation of the Farmers Market from its current site. The potential relocation of the Farmers Market to Santa Fe Commons has been under consideration for months, with consultants hired by the city to look into ways to improve market operations laying out a number of benefits to the idea. But the prospect proved divisive among residents, with many saying it would eat into precious green space in Santa Fe Commons. In [...]

Disc golf thrives at premier course in Hays

info2018-09-04T09:35:43-05:00September 4th, 2018|

As Ron Rice was out and about on Wednesday he saw a class of Hays middle school students throwing discs around the nine-hole Rolling Hills Park Disc Golf Course at 41st Street and Autumn Lane. “It’s nice to see,” Rice said. “The P.E. teacher is teaching them disc golf.” Rice has been playing the sport — what old-timers refer to as Frisbee golf — since he was in college at Fort Hays State University in the late 1970s. A lot has changed since those early days. He is one of 132 disc golf players registered so far for the 34th [...]

Homeowner sues City of Wichita to lower special assessments when bonds are re-financed (which probably NO city in Kansas does)

info2018-08-31T11:05:53-05:00August 31st, 2018|

Thousands of Wichita homeowners, mainly those who bought new homes built between 2002 and 2011, could be paying more in special assessments than they should, according to a Wichita lawyer suing the city on behalf of a local couple. The attorney, Austin Parker, contends the city of Wichita is deliberately collecting more money from property owners who pay special than it needs to pay off bonds that funded streets, sewers and other infrastructure improvements in what could be dozens of developments across town. The issue, Parker says, stems from the city’s practice of refinancing more than $220 million in general obligation [...]