Animals taken to the shelter by city employees can be held for five business days before ACARF officials can put the dogs or cats up for adoption. The city’s previous contract allowed for 10 days. The hope is to reduce overcrowding.
Source: The Iola Register
The new 800 MHz radio system designed to blanket the county with 95 percent coverage has a 12-square-mile hole in it. The $8.3 million radio system from Motorola became fully operational in early July and is to be used by first responders with all the agencies in the county. Officials with the Miami County Sheriff’s Office reported to county commissioners at their Nov. 17 study session there is a gap in coverage in the northeast corner of the county. “We have some area up there, 12 square miles, of dead space where we can’t reach our communications at the sheriff’s office,” Sheriff Frank Kelly said.
Source: Local News | republic-online.com
Those heading home to Old West Lawrence for the holiday might need to ask for directions. The routes that residents have taken for years are now obstructed by temporary road barriers. It’s an experimental effort to prevent speeding and excess traffic through neighborhood streets, instead pushing drivers out to arterial roads and collector streets. Some residents of the neighborhood have concerns about the barriers’ consequences — both intended and unintended. Maren Bradley, vice president of the OWL neighborhood association, said that during an annual meeting in January, residents’ concerns about speeding, unsafe drivers and the potential dangers for kids, pedestrians and bicyclists “came to a fever pitch.” Speed bumps and speed tables in the neighborhood had not achieved the desired effects, and cut-through traffic to get to the nearby University of Kansas campus has remained a concern for many.
Source: The Lawrence Times
Every weekday at San Antonio Public Safety Headquarters, people line up at windows to report crimes, seek advice, maybe challenge a parking ticket. But not everyone is here to conduct typical police business. Some are unsheltered and have heard the police can help them get or recover an ID, removing a huge barrier to receiving services. The ID program is the brainchild of the police department’s homeless outreach team, and it represents one piece of a puzzle that San Antonio and Bexar County (population 2 million) have been putting together since the early 2000s. Its purpose: to reduce the number of people living on the streets and to try to help those with mental illness and addiction issues who often end up in courts and jails.
Source: Wichita Eagle
Managers of Boot Hill Casino & Resort in Dodge City entered an agreement with a mobile sports gambling company in anticipation the state of Kansas would eventually adopt legislation and regulations to legalize that form of wagering. DraftKings reached a deal with BHCMC, a subsidiary of Butler National Corp. that operates Boot Hill Casino, to eventually bring an online sportsbook to that western Kansas casino. “DraftKings is a leader in this fast growing industry and will bring a trusted, experienced mobile sports betting application to sports fans in Kansas when the law allows,” said Clark Stewart, chief executive officer at Boot Hill Casino.
Source: Derby Informer | News
The novel coronavirus may have slowed your life in some ways but it may have increased your speed of internet service. An October report by the WhistleOut website showed internet download speeds in Kansas have accelerated 60.3% this year. In Cottonwood Falls, it was planned that way. “Because we were recipients of CARES broadband infrastructure grants, we were able to pass about 13,000 premises during the last quarter of 2020,” said Jade Piros de Carvalho, IdeaTek Director of Industry and Community Relations. IdeaTek’s lines cover a large area of central and southwest Kansas. But she noted Chase County was one of the company’s target locations for money allocated last year by Gov. Laura Kelly. The company spent around $4.5 million there.
Source: Emporia Gazette
Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden announced on Tuesday his office will work with a biotech company to allow employees to test their immunity to COVID-19. Aditxt, the biotech company the sheriff’s office is partnering with, will draw blood from users and test their antibody levels against COVID-19. Civilian and sworn staff can access the test for free to check their immunity to the virus. The partnership comes after Kansas Governor Laura Kelly promised late Monday to sign legislation making it easy for workers to avoid COVID-19 vaccine mandates from their workplace. Aditxt has an immune monitoring technology, AditxtScoreTM, meant to provide a personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system. The Sheriff’s office said in a press release that it is “the only known antibody test that will test to the T-cell level and provide an accurate reading of an individual’s Covid-19 immunity.”
Source: KC Star Local News
Mental health services in Johnson County got a big boost from grant money recently, making it possible for county commissioners to add more than 14 full time equivalent positions in a variety of capacities. County commissioners voted earlier this month to accept more than $1.9 million in federal, state and local grant money to authorize adding jobs to such services as: a program for formerly incarcerated people with mental health or substance abuse problems; the transition to a national suicide prevention call number; services for students at Johnson County Community College.
Source: KCUR News
The former chairman of the FCC has given back to his hometown in southeast Kansas. Parsons-native Ajit Pai recently donated $50,000 to a handful of schools. It all started a few months after he left the FCC. He auctioned an image of himself holding a mug — not thinking much would come out of it. To his surprise — the final bid, involving a cryptocurrency, was worth $50,000. He then worked with the “Parsons Area Community Foundation” to figure out to best way distribute the money. “I had educators that were in that town, willing to take kids like me that might not know exactly what was involved, but had the determination to bring the best out of us, that really helped make all the difference, and so I’m quite confident in the years to come, if these programs are able to be sustained, and thrive, I think that there are going to be many more students in Parsons, Kansas, and hopefully throughout Southeast Kansas and the four state region would have the same opportunities that I did,” said Ajit Pai, Former FCC Chairman.
Source: KSNF/KODE
City administrators want the Manhattan City Commission to consider establishing a single trash service provider for Aggieville in an effort to clean up how the district handles its garbage and grease. MSW Consultants, based in Orlando, presented commissioners on Tuesday with two options to address trash in Aggieville. It was a work session, so no decisions were reached, and it was not immediately clear which direction the commission prefers. One would continue to allow multiple trash service providers in the district, but the city government would improve policies and regulations. The other option would establish an exclusive trash service for all businesses in the district; the city would ask for bids from private trash haulers and award the job on some as-yet undetermined basis.
Source: themercury.com
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