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Valley Center tackles cemetery fee issues
According to the Ark Valley News, the Valley Center City Council requested more information and research from city staff regarding a cemetery fee policy that came under scrutiny recently. Hearing from Steve Hipps, the council learned he was charged an…
Haysville district hosts bond discussions
In anticipation of a potential bond vote next spring, the Haysville school district is currently hosting a series of community meetings to gain input. The last such meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 8 at Campus High School. No…
Leavenworth School District’s new website feature to report threats
The Leavenworth Unified School District’s website officially has a new feature to help report tips, ask questions or raise concerns. Community members can use the new feature to alert the district if they feel like there’s a threat. The button…
Meeting to discuss possible sales tax hike set
The Jackson County Commissioners will host a special meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 30, at the first floor meeting room at the Jackson County Courthouse to discuss the possibility of increasing the county sales tax by one percent,…
Hospital subsidy pitched here
Although “the sky isn’t falling,” as Holton Community Hospital CEO Carrie Lutz told members of the Holton City Commission and Jackson County Commission at their meetings on Monday, the hospital is facing some financial issues with Medicare reimbursement and pandemic-related…
COVID-19 wastewater data spiked in JoCo. Here’s why local officials aren’t worried.
Despite a short-lived spike in wastewater data for northeast Johnson County last month, the overall trend of COVID-19 infections in the county and statewide has been on the decline, according to data from the Johnson County Department of Health and…
Overland Park to cut down lanes on stretch of Santa Fe Drive, add room for bikes
Overland Park intends to try out a road diet on a chunk of Santa Fe Drive next year. On Wednesday, the Overland Park City Council Public Works Committee unanimously recommended approval of the infrastructure maintenance program plan for 2025. That…
Redlining helped spur disinvestment in Wichita’s urban core. How much is an in-fill plan changing that legacy?
Just over half of all demolitions in Wichita and Sedgwick County in the last decade were of single-family homes. Of those, nearly a quarter occurred in ZIP code 67214. The area had the most single-family demolitions of any other ZIP…
EPA awards Iola School District $690k for clean buses
The U.S. Environment Protection Agency is set to present a $690,000 ceremonial check to the Iola Unified School District. The check is part of the EPA's Clean School Bus Program. The program funds electric buses, which produce zero-tailpipe emissions, as…
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