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Current Lawrence school district estimates call for about a third of the district’s elementary classrooms to be multigrade next school year, and one school has opted to convert all its elementary classrooms to multigrade. The number of multigrade classrooms won’t be finalized until August, but the district is currently estimating that 40 of its 119 elementary classrooms, or about 34%, will combine grade levels. Which students end up in a multigrade classroom will vary between schools and grades, and at least two schools have already begun notifying parents of plans to combine classes. Parents will be notified of official placements in August.
Source: LJWorld
Even before Panasonic Corp. makes its reported decision between Kansas and Oklahoma for a new electric vehicle battery plant, officials in De Soto have started making proactive incentive moves to facilitate not just one, but two potential $4 billion megaprojects. At a five-minute special meeting Monday evening, the De Soto City Council agreed to a July 7 hearing date for two separate, but substantially similar, $4 billion project plans near the north entrance to the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, southeast of a Kansas Highway 10 bend. The two project plans both outline advanced manufacturing facilities of at least 2.5 million square feet, as part of about 4 million square feet of total site work. The first 309-acre project site sits directly north the 296-acre second, at the southeast corner of 103rd Street and Dual Drive. The initial megaproject is expected to deliver as many as 4,000 new jobs.
Source: Kansas City Business Journal
Overland Park has posted an online survey as it studies short-term rentals like Airbnbs or Vrbos, which are rented for short periods of time. Mayor Curt Skoog announced the study in March after a Wichita woman was shot to death during a party at a short-term rental property in the 9700 block of West 145th Terrace. “Short-term rental operators need to be considerate of their neighbors in the community and we need to ensure our residential neighborhoods will continue to be safe and welcoming,” Skoog said at the time. … More Spring Hill families will be able to have female chickens on their property, after the City Council on May 26 approved an ordinance regulating the practice. A previous council rejected a similar ordinance last year. Previously, chickens were legal only on lots of 3 acres or more. The new rules allow hens on single- or two-family properties of at least a quarter-acre, and the number of hens allowed varies by the size of the property…
Source: Joco 913 News
Inflation accelerated further in May, with prices rising 8.6% from a year ago for the fastest increase since December 1981, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The consumer price index, a wide-ranging measure of goods and services prices, increased even more than the 8.3% Dow Jones estimate. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core CPI was up 6%, slightly higher than the 5.9% estimate. On a monthly basis, headline CPI was up 1% while core rose 0.6%, compared to respective estimates of 0.7% and 0.5%. Surging shelter, gasoline and food prices all contributed to the increase.
Source: CNBC – Bonds
Business promoters of several area towns have come together for a special shopping event to showcase speciality shops in their communities. Residents of Winfield, Arkansas City, Dexter and Wellington will soon have the opportunity to explore local businesses and win prizes in what is being called a Boutique Crawl from June 10 through June 18. Visit Ark City Director Jill Hunter said the crawl is designed to encourage local communities to work together and draw shoppers in to discover what their businesses have to offer. “There are a lot of really nice boutiques in the area that people really don’t know about,” she said. Winfield Chamber CEO Sarah Werner said Monday said that she is excited about the event.
Source: The Arkansas City Traveler
More than 600 riders participating in Biking Across Kansas should start arriving in Hutchinson around 10 a.m. Tuesday, as the 49th annual ride makes an overnight stop here for the first time in more than 20 years. The planned route will bring the riders into town on Fourth Avenue and then up to Washington Street to Harley’s Bicycles on Seventh Avenue. The street will be blocked off there and vendors set up to welcome and celebrate with the riders.
Source: Hutch News
Glider pilots from across the United States are competing in the 2022 Standard and 20-Meter Multi-Seat National Glider Competition from June 7-16 at the Sunflower Glider Port on the retired Naval Air Station near Yoder. The event is hosted by the Kansas Soaring Association. On the first day of the competition, 22 gliders were towed into the sky by tow planes. The competition began at 3 p.m. for the standard gliders and at 3:05 p.m. for the 20-meter, multi-seat gliders. Each pilot was given the flight task, which is a cross-country triangle course that they have to follow and then return to the glider port.
Source: Hutch News
For Sharon Chambers, the computer given to her will enable the flexibility and privacy she needs. “I’m just here to pick up a computer because mine died,” said Chambers, 74. “I need to print stuff, and I don’t have one anymore.” While Chambers says a lot of the work she needs to do can be done on her phone, having a desktop computer is important because of the access it offers. … Chambers was one of 176 residents given a computer Wednesday through the city of Topeka’s TSC-Get Digital program, which strives to increase digital equity in the capital city. This program was enabled by a $250,000 grant the city received from the Kansas Digital Equity and Inclusion Collaborative last year.
Source: CJonline
Douglas County leaders approved a recommendation to end the county’s COVID-19 disaster declaration, which had been in effect since March 17, 2020, at their meeting Wednesday night. That approval comes about a week after the county’s Unified Command team, which was formed to respond to the pandemic, elected to demobilize. County Emergency Management Director Robert Bieniecki and Deputy Director Jillian Rodrigue were on hand to thank the commission for their support. Commissioners, for their part, praised Bieniecki, Rodrigue and the rest of the Unified Command team who helped guide the county’s response to the pandemic.
Source: LJWorld
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