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Coffeyville Police Department Receives JAG Grant
The Coffeyville Police Department has received grant funding from the JAG Grant program. The grant will pay for new police technology including: in-car digital video recorders, equipment for forensic evidence investigations and evidence processing, and a prisoner restraint system that…
Sedgwick County organizations receive grants for public health, safety programs
Three Sedgwick County organizations have been awarded grants to support public health and safety programs, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced today. City of Wichita Police Department will receive $95,633 to fund programs involving recruitment efforts, drug interdiction, homeless and…
Former Topeka city administrator John Arnold dies at 79
John Arnold had already spent 17 years as city manager of municipalities in Colorado, California and North Dakota when then-Mayor Joan Wagnon hired him as Topeka’s chief administrative officer in 1998. Having Arnold as her CAO made running Topeka’s city…
County OKs project to improve stretch of S.E. 45th
The roughly half-mile stretch of S.E. 45th Street just south of Lake Shawnee will be transformed in 2021 from a two-lane road with open ditches on either side to a three-lane road with curbs and gutters, storm sewers and sidewalks…
Overhead work closes Santa Fe Avenue in downtown Salina Thursday
A portion of Santa Fe Avenue will be closed Thursday as construction in the downtown area continues. The City of Salina said an overhead structure at Phillips Plaza will be erected Thursday, causing the closure of Santa Fe from Iron…
Community foundation offers grants to teachers
In an effort to support teachers in the Peabody school district, Peabody Community Foundation is offering grants for needs outside of the district’s annual budget. Student groups working in collaboration with a teacher may also apply. Up to 10 $250…
USDA to provide $150 Million to help rural communities affected by natural disasters
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director for Kansas, Lynne Hinrichsen, highlighted that USDA is providing $150 million in grants through the agency’s Community Facilities Program. The grants will help rural communities across the country continue their recovery…
Tonganoxie Public Library now pushing back opening to this coming Tuesday
The Tonganoxie Public Library will be re-open next week. Library director Nicole Holifield originally posted a note on the library’s website with an update that the library would be back in operation starting at 9 a.m. today, but that date…
Lawrence seeking feedback on desired developments in low-income ‘opportunity zones’
The public will soon be able to provide input on what developments they would like to see in low-income areas of the city that have been designated as federal opportunity zones. There are two Lawrence census tracts designated as opportunity…
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