Road expansion is underway in Cherokee County. The Kansas Department of Transportation is creating a four-lane expressway along U-S 166. The project will be constructed between the highways junctions with U-S 400 and K-26. There will also be interchanges constructed at each of the junctions. Traffic is not expected to be impacted during the early phase of the project, which includes equipment staging, clearing and bridgework. KDOT will provide traffic updates over the course of the project which is anticipated to be completed by May 2024.
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The main square has been one, if not the most memorable locations in cities like Girard, it’s a center for shops, food and business. However, a major obstacle current and new businesses face is the maintenance of the buildings which house them, but there could soon be some help. “In order to have jobs and people who want to live here, and come back to Girard, we need a healthy square. We need businesses here, a place to shop, just all around it starts with the square,” says Mark Schifferdecker, GNBank President & CEO. Maintaining the historic buildings in the Girard square has been a major goal for the city, and thanks to a recent award, it could see an old program emerge in a new way.
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