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‘Choose Topeka’ expands to accept returning residents, military
City and county leaders are working together to ensure those who currently live outside Topeka see it as a place they might want to call home. The "Choose Topeka," program offers financial incentives to people who relocate to Topeka. Since…
Return of passenger trains to Cowley County lurches forward
Kansans might be riding trains to Texas in the near future. The long overdue return of passenger rail service to south-central Kansas has a much better chance of happening within the next several years than it has had in decades.…
Communities talk rural health
The inaugural sessions of the Radcliff Lecture Series on Rural Health took place on Thursday at the Physicians Pavilion in Winfield and on Friday at Aunt B’s in Sedan. Hosted by William Newton Healthcare Foundation in conjunction with the Beats…
Fed Governor Christopher Waller warns that interest rates could go higher than expectations
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller on Wednesday talked tough on inflation, warning that the fight is not over and could result in higher interest rates than markets are anticipating. Speaking to an agribusiness conference in Arkansas, Waller said the January…
Washington’s Old City Hall is ‘for sale’
The old city hall building in Washington could be yours for free, but only if you have a plan for the building. At Monday night’s city council meeting, council members agreed to attempt to give the building away one more…
Sedgwick County commissioners approve spending plan for ARPA funds
Sedgwick County commissioners have voted to approve spending plans for 2023 and 2024 for federal funds provided through the American Rescue Plan Act, but commissioners want to have meetings later to make changes in some items. The largest item on…
Downtown district dominates Larned council meeting
The city’s downtown business district received the lion’s share of discussion at Monday’s meeting of the Larned City Council. Beginning with public perception of the pros and cons of the drive down Larned’s Broadway street, discussion in the three-hour session…
Burrton discusses four-day school week
On Feb. 2, there was a special meeting open to the public in the library where Matt Goetz provided 15 pages of findings from two months of research on the subject of a four-day school week verses a five-day school…
Newton BOE weighs consolidation
The USD-373 Board of Education held a frank discussion about cost-cutting for more than two hours Feb. 1 as it looks for a solution for losing nearly 500 students in enrollment. Potential solutions included closing the Walton Rural Life Center…
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