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Overland Park receives settlement from insurance company after boy topples expensive sculpture
The insurance company for the family of a boy who toppled an expensive sculpture at an Overland Park community center has sent a large check to reimburse the city. Overland Park spokesman Sean Reilly says the family's insurance company sent…
A 130-year-old general store and memories keep Kansas ghost town of Banner alive
From a spring wagon pulled by mules, A.W. Purinton found his home. It was fall 1878 and settlement was only beginning. Western Kansas was vast and empty. Trego County hadn’t been organized. The only community center was a small settlement…
Equine facilities impact communities in more ways than one
One facility has been in the same location for more than a 100 years. Another for close to 20 years and one more is just getting its feet wet. For three places that host equine events in southwest Kansas, the…
Topeka city manager drops request to raise sales tax, proposes keeping it the same
Public feedback has prompted city manager Brent Trout to drop his earlier request that Topekans be asked to raise the citywide sales tax to three-quarters of a cent. A resolution he is sponsoring would arrange for Topekans to instead vote…
Governing bodies to consider labor contract, incentives for promoters
A proposed labor contract amendment and incentives for promoters to bring acts to the Kansas Expocentre are among matters local governing bodies plan to take up this coming week. The Shawnee County Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Monday in…
Cowley County officials hope to avoid property tax hike
Cowley County commissioners this week took a step toward approving next year’s budget. Administrator Lucas Goff and county commissioners held a work session Tuesday on the proposed 2019 fiscal-year budget during a commission meeting. Among the challenges to the upcoming…
A small Kansas City bar plays host to generations of Croatian soccer fans
Hrvatska! Hrvatska! Hrvatska! In a basement of the typically quiet Strawberry Hill neighborhood in Kansas City, Kan., those words could be heard echoing repeatedly from over 200 strong over the course of three hours on Saturday afternoon. Hrvatska means “Croatia”…
Clapp Golf Course in Wichita slated to close Sept. 30
Turning aside pleas from dozens of residents, the Wichita Park Board voted late Friday to close L.W. Clapp Golf Course in south Wichita at the end of the peak golf season Sept. 30. But the closure passed with a stipulation…
Reno and surrounding counties still in drought emergency
On Friday, Gov. Jeff Colyer updated the Drought Declaration for Kansas counties with an executive order. The update includes all 105 counties either in an emergency, warning, or watch status. This order places nearly half of Kansas counties in an…
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