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Louisburg extends FLIP program through 2022
The Louisburg City Council at its Dec. 6 meeting approved continuing the Faces of Louisburg Improvement Program (FLIP) for commercial and residential properties through 2022. Business owners and residents can apply to the city when making improvements to the front…
Lenexa will prioritize certain homes for popular exterior grant program reimbursing improvements
The city of Lenexa is revising its increasingly popular exterior grant program to prioritize home projects most in need of improvements. After expanding the city’s exterior grant program from a few select neighborhoods to citywide, Lenexa is now revising the program…
‘Take action’: Mayors urge Johnson County to mandate masks during record COVID surge
Several Johnson County mayors want rules that require face masks in public spaces extended to the entire county after municipal leaders approved similar mandates in four cities this week. The new rules come as COVID-19 cases soar to record highs…
The story behind the renaissance of Humboldt, Kansas
It might not be growing in population, but Humboldt, Kansas is one town that has defied the odds in other ways. Drive around town and there is a coffee shop, a frame shop, a working 19th century cabinet shop that…
Slow return to normal: Employees still needed in Salina, despite drop in unemployment
In Salina, businesses and employers across several industries are looking for workers and many are offering incentives to new hires. The November 2021 labor force and unemployment report, which is the latest available from the Kansas Department of Labor, showed…
Kansas schools close amid COVID surge and staffing crisis; educators hope for time to get healthy
The coronavirus pandemic continues to surge in Kansas, forcing more than a dozen schools to cancel classes as state regulators loosened education requirements to become a substitute teacher. With Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, educators expressed hope the…
Traffic, housing, sports: Six projects that will change life in Johnson County in 2022
Tina Tribble is surprised when she runs into other Overland Park residents who still do not know about U.S. 69. Starting this year, the highway will undergo a $400 million expansion with two new electronic toll lanes. ... It’s one…
A year after a historic cold front slammed the state, how prepared is Kansas for another deep freeze?
Residents are unlikely to forget February 2021 anytime soon. If the blistering cold temperatures that slammed Kansas weren't memorable enough, rolling blackouts were instituted twice in a 48-hour span in a bid to conserve energy use. A series of factors…
Reno County’s labor force is changing
Reno County’s demographics are changing. According to Jeremy Hill, the director of the Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University, Reno County’s population will continue to decline. As for the people in their 60s and higher,…
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