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Topeka partners with nonprofit to offer free financial guidance to city residents
The city of Topeka has partnered with a national nonprofit to offer free remote guidance to local residents dealing with COVID-19-related financial challenges. Topeka has teamed up with the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund to offer a "Financial Navigators" program.…
After public outcry, Wichita rethinking site for new police station
Facing opposition from neighbors near Cypress Park, Wichita City Hall is looking to find a different location for a new east-side police station, city officials said. The city had planned last year to build the new station on about 4…
Planning continues toward creating Etzanoa attraction near Ark City
The Etzanoa Conservancy has remained busy in recent months, despite the COVID-19 outbreak earlier this year. Conservancy director Sandy Randel updated the Arkansas City Rotary Club on the organization’s activities during a recent meeting in the Cowley College Brown Center.…
Reaching Wichita’s hard-to-count communities as census nears end
The 2020 census count is set to end Sept. 30, a month earlier than originally planned. That’s left census workers and advocates hurrying to get as many households to respond as possible – especially in communities that have historically been…
Labette Community College gets $200K donation for athletic complex
The Labette Community College Foundation is the recipient of an anonymous $200,000 donation to support the Pathways to the Future Athletic Complex capital campaign. This gift will help the LCC Foundation more closely attain a challenge grant from the J.E.…
Parsons approves project to use coronavirus relief act funds
The city of Parsons will spend about $40,000 from a round of coronavirus relief funding to build a barrier for second-floor offices in the Municipal Building. During a regular meeting Monday, city commissioners approved a proposal to build the permanent…
$825,000 available for UG grant to support small businesses
As part of the Unified Government’s (UG) CARES Act request, the UG Commission recently approved $825,000 to support the Economic Development Department’s WYCO Loves Local Small Business grants. The WYCO Loves Local initiative was created to encourage continued growth and…
To help create affordable housing downtown, some Lawrence leaders support redeveloping city parking lots
Some Lawrence city commissioners say that in order to create affordable housing options downtown, the city might have to repurpose some of its parking lots and other properties. The idea of redeveloping the city’s downtown properties — which include a…
Following study, changes to Lawrence stoplight timings aim to improve traffic flow on main corridors
Upcoming changes to traffic signals along some of the city’s main corridors will aim to decrease the time motorists spend sitting behind red lights and improve traffic flow throughout the city. Olsson, an engineering and design firm hired by the…
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