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Tiny homes restricted to RV, mobile home parks in Junction City
Junction City residents wishing to live in tiny homes will be required to reside in recreational vehicle or mobile home parks. Officials discussed bulk regulations in residential zoning districts during Tuesday night’s city commissioners meeting. Troy Livingston — the director…
Mission proposes creating community improvement district to pay for caved-in parking lot repair
Mission city leaders are considering creating a community improvement district to repair a cave-in of the Roeland Court parking lot. Community improvement districts (CIDs) in the Shawnee Mission area are normally used to create a sales tax for funding new…
Three car-tag offices will close and a new one will open in Sedgwick County
Two weeks from now, you’ll have a new place to get car tags, renewals and title work done. The Sedgwick County Treasurer’s Office will shut down its three current satellite tag offices and move the staffs and equipment to a…
Funding OK’d to make water more palatable, clear way for swimming at Lake Shawnee Adventure Cove
The Shawnee County Commission approved a project budget totaling $386,250 Monday to make the water more palatable and clear the way for swimming at the Lake Shawnee Adventure Cove. Commissioners Kevin Cook, Shelly Buhler and Bob Archer voted 3-0 to…
Sumner County Commissioners table VNA zoning change request until April
The Sumner County Commissioners tabled a request by VNA Corporation to rezone a parcel of property west of the Ninnescah River from rural to heavy industrial until the April 8 meeting this morning at the Raymond Frye Complex. The Commissioners…
Lenexa approves 1% community improvement district sales tax for City Center office, restaurant project
The Lenexa City Council unanimously approved a community improvement district (CID) for roughly 2.7 acres of City Center at the southwest corner of the future Scarborough Street and Renner Boulevard for a new, 20,000-square-foot mixed-used building, private streets, parking facilities…
Shawnee county hires nurse for program that aids low-income, first-time mothers
The Shawnee County Health Department announced Monday it had hired a registered nurse, Felicia Turk, for its Nurse-Family Partnership program, a national effort that provides assistance free of charge to low-income, first-time mothers who qualify. The program was created in…
Barton County Attorney announces resignation, concern for county’s future
Amy Mellor has served as Barton County Attorney for just under two years, and nearly half of that time if not more has been experienced with a rocky relationship with the Barton County Sheriff’s Office. For this reason and more,…
Two designs chosen as finalists in Augusta’s flag contest
Augusta residents have the opportunity to vote for their favorite design in the contest for the City of Augusta’s official flag. The panel of judges for the contest have narrowed the field down to two outstanding designs. The judges were…
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