Buhler saw a spike in energy costs after the state’s February cold snap, but now, the school district is thinking big. Kansas schools are looking to incorporate solar energy to reduce energy expenses. Buhler leadership called in a teacher who started the largest solar energy system for a school in Kansas and began to accumulate information. “We want to save money, be more efficient and use it as an educational tool,” said Laura Meyer Dick, president of Buhler’s Board of Education, and the person who came up with the idea. “We want to use it to benefit the district.”
Source: Salina Journal.

Located at the center of Salina, Oakdale Park has a history that goes back over 100 years, and Thursday, the Smoky Hill Museum is hosting a Zoom presentation about some of this history. Former Salina Parks Superintendent Bob Ash will present “Oak Dale Park: Salina’s gathering place since 1881” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday on Zoom as part of the museum’s First Thursday Presentations. “He is the expert,” said Nona Miller about Ash’s knowledge of the park. Miller is the curator of education for the museum and said she is happy to see the history of the park as a gathering place for people in Salina and what events in the area like the Smoky Hill River Festival will bring to the continued legacy of the park.
Source: Salina Journal.

Garden Rapids at The Big Pool is now open. The Big Pool’s successor was constructed in the footprint of former aquatics facility after 10 months of construction, beginning in July 2020. It cost just under $14 million to construct and includes a renovated bathhouse, new concession area, green space, semi-private cabanas, new toddler area, splash park, zero depth entry, plunge pool, lazy river, pool with both a 5 meter and 25 yard options for competition swimmers and five slide tower with a tube slide, body flume, two Fly Time slide and a Slipstream stand-up slide.
Source: GC Telegram.

This is a personal injury case arising from an incident in which Teresa Sneath was injured when she drove her automobile into waters flooding a road in Ellsworth County. Sneath filed a negligence lawsuit against the county’s board of commissioners and highway department. The district court granted the Defendants’ motion to dismiss, however, ruling that they were immune from liability under K.S.A. 75-6104(l), because Sneath’s damages were caused by the natural condition of a flooded street and not by any negligent affirmative act by the governmental defendants. Sneath appeals. Finding no error, we affirm the district court’s dismissal of the lawsuit.
Source: Kansas Court of Appeals.