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Shawnee may need $140 million in next decade to repair or replace aging stormwater pipelines
Shawnee’s aging stormwater infrastructure is becoming a widespread problem, with the city needing as much as $140 million over the next 10 years to repair or replace drainage pipes that are on the brink of failure. Public works staff demonstrated…
Watershed dams help reduce flooding
The Delaware Watershed Joint District No. 10 was chartered by the State in 1957 after much work by the local people. However, it wasn’t until 1977 that funds became available in the state of Kansas to assist in construction costs…
Lenexa planning to pull federal funds from renovating community, senior centers to upgrade Old Town streetlights
The city of Lenexa has an excess amount of federal funding to make community development improvements — and less than two months to spend it. So city staff has proposed reallocating some of those funds previously earmarked for renovations to the…
Wellington City Manager Shane Shields said estimated flood damage and repair to city-own property is right now at $140,108.07
Sumner Newscow report — Wellington City Manager Shane Shields wrote in the June 7 City of Wellington newsletter, the initial estimate of flood damage and repair to city-owned property, turned into the Sumner County Emergency Management was $140,108.07. “This is…
State leaders coming to Ark City for community input on early childhood programs
Leaders from across the state’s early childhood system will be in Arkansas City collecting feedback as part of a series of Community Engagement Sessions being held across Kansas. Sessions are being held now through the end of July. The Kansas…
Both sides of wind project make pitches
ERIE – Opponents and supporters of the proposed Neosho Ridge Wind project made their pitches Thursday evening before commissioners, who later approved agreements on the plan. Most of the people who addressed the commission during the public comment portion spoke…
Boom in electric scooters nationwide leads to more injuries, fatalities
Andrew Hardy was crossing the street on an electric scooter in downtown Los Angeles when a car struck him at 50 miles per hour and flung him 15 feet in the air before he smacked his head on the pavement…
Robot reports for duty with Pratt County law enforcement
A new robot is on duty at the Pratt County Sheriff’s Office and is ready to provide a safe alternative in dangerous situations. The new Transcend Tactical robot can go in areas unsafe to send people because of dangerous surroundings…
McPherson’s early days detailed at public library
The City of McPherson can lay claim to a long and colorful history ever since its founding in 1872, but how exactly was it founded? And why? Myths and misinformation about early McPherson history have taken on a life of…
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