info2022-09-15T08:20:33-05:00September 15th, 2022|
Sedgwick Park is a new destination for pickleball enthusiasts. In the past week, the city finished converting the west side of its basketball slab into a pickleball court. City council member Monty Leonard, who spearheaded the project, was at the park last Friday afternoon applying a special paint to the concrete surface. “I grossly underestimated how much it takes to paint a pickleball court,” he said. Source: Harvey County Now
info2022-09-15T08:20:52-05:00September 15th, 2022|
The populations of Wichita and Sedgwick County are growing slower than predicted. A 2015 city-county comprehensive plan predicted that, by 2035, Sedgwick County would reach a population of 610,000 and Wichita would reach 448,000. Now, the city-county planning department is predicting this won’t happen until 2045. Source: Derby Informer | News
info2022-09-14T07:33:56-05:00September 14th, 2022|
There's no stoplight, no high rise, not even a Mcdonald's. However, what the small town of Damar, Kansas, lacks in infrastructure, it makes up for in heart and personality. "It's wonderful because most of it is the people here. They want to be here. They are not here just because they are born and raised here. They want to stay here," said Jim Desbien, the treasurer for the Damar Community Foundation. Desbien's family settled in the French Canadian heritage town, also known as the "Acadia of the West," in the late 1800s. Source: KSN-TV
info2022-09-14T07:32:00-05:00September 14th, 2022|
The Wichita City Council voted Tuesday to reduce the penalties for people caught with marijuana or fentanyl test strips. It was an issue that has been up for discussion in the past several months. Fentanyl strips would no longer be classified as drug paraphernalia, and marijuana possession would be decriminalized in the city. An average of 850 cases for illegal possession of marijuana are filed each year in municipal court. Possession of marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia would remain illegal under state law. Any charges for these crimes would need to be filed by the district attorney. Source: KSN-TV
info2022-09-14T07:27:11-05:00September 14th, 2022|
It was a quiet Sunday morning in Pratt, but at specified times the big bell in front of City of Pratt Fire Department on Jackson Street rang out in honor of those who lost their lives, particularly first responders and fire fighters in New York City during a terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. Pratt City Fire Chief David Kramer, joined by firemen Mac Calloway, Eric Welch, Justin Garrett and a few others throughout the morning, rang the bell at 8:46 a.m. when the north tower was struck, again at 9:03 a.m. when the south tower was struck, and then at [...]
info2022-09-14T07:24:03-05:00September 14th, 2022|
U.S. Treasury yields continued to climb higher on Wednesday as investors digested the previous session's dramatic market route triggered by a hot inflation reading. The yield on the 2-year Treasury, the part of the curve most sensitive to Fed policy, was trading 1 basis point higher at around 5:00 a.m. ET to reach 3.773%, at one point hitting as high as 3.805%, its highest level since November 2007. Tuesday's session saw it surge 17 points. Yields move inversely to prices, and a basis point is equal to 0.01%. Meanwhile, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was up just over one [...]
info2022-09-14T08:03:54-05:00September 14th, 2022|
Beer lovers used to look forward every fall to the big Midwest Beerfest, which in its heyday would fill Century II with local, regional and national breweries passing out samples of their best brews. That event — which was always put on by the Wichita Chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food — hasn’t happened since before the pandemic and still isn’t back this year. But another growing beer festival, which also has been on hiatus since the COVID-19 pandemic, is making a 2022 return and will be set up at a new venue. Source: Wichita Eagle
info2022-09-14T08:04:15-05:00September 14th, 2022|
The city of Newton will begin the eminent domain process and condemnation proceedings to acquire land to build a railroad spur to serve the Kansas Logistics Park. They approved a resolution to begin the process at their Tuesday commission meeting. “It’s been a little while since we’ve seen condemnation,” City Attorney Chris Towle said, explaining that the act allows the government to take private property and compensate a property owner with a fair market value for the property.” The state recently announced a $3.04 million award to the city to pay for the spur. The resolution allows the city to begin surveying [...]
info2022-09-14T07:16:56-05:00September 14th, 2022|
A construction project on Kellogg that will stretch from east Wichita to Andover will take years, but it could've been much worse. "I hope I'm alive to see it completed," said Debbie Maltbie, who lives near Kellogg. Maltbie was at the east Kellogg construction meeting Tuesday where the Kansas Department of Transportation talked about its plans to build a new highway all the way to Andover next year. However, after just getting done with three decades of Kellogg construction, she's a little nervous to start more. "It'll be a little painful, you know, during construction and the learning curve of getting [...]
info2022-09-14T08:08:28-05:00September 14th, 2022|
The Winfield Main Street Committee of the Winfield Area Chamber of Commerce is planning another Pre-Festival Hamburger Feed and Music Crawl today to celebrate the 50th Walnut Valley Festival. Like last year, a portion of the downtown streets will be closed to traffic in order to have a safe and relaxed crawl. Source: The Arkansas City Traveler
