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After the latest tornado to roll over Sharon Springs, the community of 751 wasted no time getting together to clean it all up. “I would say it just wasn’t even a second thought,” said Aften Gardner, assistant EMS Director for Wallace County. “Our fire and EMS are already volunteer, completely. And we’ve got amazing responders to begin with. I wasn’t surprised at all.” In October of last year, like the tornado over this weekend, the town was hit by an EF1 twister. And just like six months ago the volunteers found broken windows all over town. They found roofing that collapsed and papers from a local business scattered as well.
Source: KSN-TV
A City of Wichita employee got a big surprise Monday during what he thought was just a work-related meeting. The Wichita city manager, mayor and council members showed up and presented Reginald “Reggie” Davidson with an Excellence in Public Service Award. The awards go to three public service employees each year – a City of Wichita employee, a Sedgwick County employee, and a Wichita Public Schools employee. We will find out the County winner on Wednesday and the WPS winner on Thursday. During a meeting of some Wichita Parks and Recreation personnel, City Manager Robert Layton called Davidson, superintendent of recreation, to the front of the room and shook his hand.
Source: KSN-TV
The people in southeast Garden City may be wondering why they lost their electricity for a couple of hours Sunday afternoon. Police say it is because someone in a pickup crashed into a power pole in the 1500 block of East Fulton Street over the noon hour. The pole was sheared off and suspended in the air by electric cables. Witnesses told police that the driver had fled. With the help of the Kansas Highway Patrol, police identified the driver as a 71-year-old Garden City man.
Source: KSN-TV
Fort Scott gets transformed back to the 1860’s. This weekend was the “39th Annual Civil War Encampment Weekend” at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. A surgery demonstration was held at the historic hospital on the grounds. Small arms demonstrations were performed as attendees learned about different firing techniques, while the canons were brought out for artillery demonstrations. A quartermaster showed people about the different kinds of food that was served over 150 years ago.
Source: KSNF/KODE
Electric scooters are gliding into Leavenworth this week. The city will eventually have between 50 and 75 of the electric scooters available for anyone over the age of 18 to use. But Kansas law prohibits electric scooter use on all highways, including Fourth Street, Spruce Street and Metropolitan Avenue. Riders need to download Bird’s mobile app. Once activated, a map in the app will show riders where scooters are located. The app also provides information about pricing and fees for users. Bird says it offers community pricing for low-income riders and free rides for healthcare workers and emergency personnel who apply for a specific program in the app.
Source: KSNT 27 News
In what officials have called a challenging budgeting year requiring creativity to balance spending with taxes, Barton County commissioners Monday night brought representatives from the myriad taxing entities in the county together for a brainstorming session as they launch the 2023 budget-planning season. “This is about getting the taxing entities under one roof and see how we can accomplish our goals in a collaborative way,” said County Operations Director Matt Patzner in his opening remarks. “How can we help each other do more?” In all, there are 54 taxing bodies that are entirely within the county or include a sliver of it, not all of which were represented at the gathering. These include the county, cities, school districts, hospital districts, libraries, fire districts, recreation commissions, townships, Barton Community College and others.
Source: Great Bend Tribune
After a year of battling overcompensation for businesses forced to close during the pandemic, there’s a been a breakthrough in the new state budget. Tucked into the new state budget without much attention was $50 million for rebates to business that were ordered closed or had to restrict their business operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The money for the rebates – up to $5,000 per business – would come out of the state’s share of COVID relief money that it received from the federal government. Gov. Laura Kelly signed the bill with the rebate a year after she vetoed a bill providing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to small businesses that were hurt financially during the pandemic.
Source: Sunflower State Journal
As Salina continues to face housing issues, one type of unit, mobile and manufactured homes, is available now and more of these units are coming by the end of this year. Danny Huehl, an installer of manufactured homes in Kansas, said a few years ago people and investors started talking about updating existing lots and building new homes in mobile home parks around the city. “This wasn’t really blossoming like (we thought) it would,” Huehl said. “Then all of the sudden, with the housing crisis, everything kind of exploded, so our investors are taking off and seeing there’s a need for housing.” Huehl said he’s already put 30 new homes in north Salina off of 13th Street and is bringing in 20 more homes in the coming months there and around 75 units to three other existing developments in the city.
Source: Salina Journal
The Wichita Public Library wants you to help write history. No matter what your world looked like during the pandemic or maybe still looks like, they want to hear about it. The library hopes that by distributing coffee sleeves, you can tell your COVID story, documenting it for future generations. “Everyone has their own idea and own experience’s from the COVID-19 pandemic. There are a lot of people who think that the pandemic was fake or they didn’t believe in wearing masks and then we have the opposite side where people were really serious and took social distancing seriously, quarantined when they weren’t feeling well… wore masks,” said Sean Jones, Communications Specialist with the Wichita Public Library. “It’s fun to get everyone’s opinion. We want to know what your experience was during these last couple of years.”
Source: KAKE – News
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