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City of Topeka agrees to pay $2,500 in pothole lawsuit
Topeka’s city government has agreed to pay a $2,500 settlement to Teresa Counts, who said she suffered permanent and serious injury when she fell because of a pothole in front of her Topeka home after she notified the city about…
Sabetha city and hospital officials want further discussions on proposed sales tax
Sabetha city and hospital officials were not satisfied with the reaction they received at this week’s Brown County Commission meeting when they asked for a portion of the sales tax revenue tagged for the Hiawatha Community Hospital — if approved…
El Dorado City Commission tackles zoning issues
The last major update to the Zoning Ordinance took place in 2009 when the City of El Dorado adopted the 2030 El Dorado Comprehensive Plan. Since that time, a number of minor changes to the ordinance have been made with…
Augusta Council is challenged with airport expansion
Planning expansion at the Augusta Municipal Airport has been a challenge for the City Council for a number of years. It hasn’t been easy to shift the community mindset from our local airport being simply an out-of-the-way facility for fair-weather…
Overland Park advances measure to provide more robust live-streaming coverage of city meetings
Overland Park is moving toward a comprehensive new agenda and video system that will make it easier for people to watch city meetings remotely while keeping track of the accompanying agenda items. A council committee gave the go-ahead Wednesday to…
Garden City City Clerk honored with statewide award
Garden City’s City Clerk Celyn Hurtado recently received the 2019 Mildred Vance City Clerk/Finance Officer of the Year award for the State of Kansas during the Kansas City Clerks and Municipal Finance Officers Association (CCMFOA) conference held in Manhattan from…
2 more Kansas counties added to disaster declaration
The Kansas Division of Emergency Management says it has been notified that two more counties have been added to a federal disaster declaration for Kansas. The agency says in a news release that the new counties added to the Feb.…
Ellis to welcome visitors with new street banners
New community banners will soon be adorning the light poles along 10th Street and Washington Street in Ellis. Glen Keller, Tourism Committee and Ellis PRIDE Committee member, presented proposals during Monday’s city council meeting to replace the existing banners which…
Lenexa to start bike share program with local nonprofit Bike Share KC
Lenexa is starting a bike share program with local nonprofit Bike Share KC. The project includes the purchase of 25 smart bikes equipped to be rented as well as installation of parking racks for the bicycles at Mill Creek Park,…
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