As Overland Park strives to be more livable and conducive to walking, biking and transit, officials plan to look at an issue that hasn’t been comprehensively examined in 30 years: Parking and the rules that govern it. Those regulations include the number of spaces required for apartments, offices, stores and other developments, as well as lighting, screening and landscaping in parking areas.
Source: Joco 913 News
Students in Wichita middle and high schools will no longer be going back to school in-person in a hybrid model after the Board of Education reversed an earlier decision amid skyrocketing coronavirus indicators. Wichita Public Schools will stick with the current learning model for the rest of the semester, keeping all older students online only while elementary students are in-person or remote, depending on the enrollment choice at the start of the academic year. The school board did not make any specific decisions regarding winter sports. Practices are set to start next week with the first competitions in less than a month.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
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With only two days for planning, the Hutchinson Fire Department set up a hands-on, real-life basic fire skills training at a house on East 6th Ave. Hutchinson Fire Department Division Chief of Training and Safety Jesse Martin said that they wanted to thank Steve Petermann of Salt City Brewing Company for allowing them the use of this property for training. Using a real structure greatly enhances the realism for training. Petermann said that he plans to demolish the building to build a parking lot. The training coincided with the department’s recruit academy with four recruits slated to graduate at the end of November. Martin said, “We brought our recruits and our on-duty fire fighters here and they are going through basic fireman skills in a real residence.”
Source: Local – The Hutchinson News
Wichita police might take a photo of your vehicle using an automatic license plate reader if you drive through high-crime areas. The pilot program is targeted at reducing violent crime in the city, which has had a 111% increase in drive-by shootings in one year, said Lt. Casey Slaughter. “It’s huge, it’s astounding,” Slaughter said of the increase in violent crime. “It’s one of those things where we feel as a department we’re obligated, certainly, to do something. And this is just one tool among many in the bag that we’re going to try to see if this will be something that will help us out and help us identify suspect vehicles and ultimately suspects in these violent crimes.”
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
Starting Saturday, Mayor Brandon Whipple, members of the Wichita City Council, and some City staff will be quarantined for two weeks after Council member Brandon Johnson tested positive for COVID-19. City officials say exposed personnel will not be able to return to City Hall until approximately November 18. Council meetings will continue via an online software until Council can meet in person.
Source: KSN-TV
“There’s a 10 day incubation period in there that we were hoping maybe if we could get in front of some of these infections and spread it out” Welch tells KAKE News. Hammersmith is pleading with people to get back to those basic Covid precautions. She says that if people do not double down on their efforts to prevent the coronavirus, like practicing good hygiene, wearing a mask, social distancing, and most importantly with the holidays coming up, avoiding crowds larger than 10 people, things will get a lot worse before they get better. “Our next phase is really shutting down our communities. And nobody wants to do that. It doesn’t help with our economy,” Hammersmith tells KAKE News.
Source: KAKE – News
Anyone who has problems with a Topeka police officer needs to report that to the police department, City Councilwoman Sylvia Ortiz said Monday. “If it doesn’t get reported, he cannot get disciplined for it,” Ortiz said at Monday’s meeting of the council’s police and community committee, which is discussing topics related to police reform. Topeka police Capt. Jamey Haltom responded by noting that a page on the police department website is devoted entirely to compliments and complaints. “The department takes your comments, compliments and complaints seriously,” says that page. It includes a link people can use to provide input.
Source: Local News | Topeka Capital-Journal
By every measure available, the coronavirus pandemic is worse than it has ever been in the Wichita area, according to the latest data provided by local and state government. The number of people in Wichita hospitals with COVID-19 has nearly doubled in two weeks. During that time, nearly one in four people who were tested had the disease. The coronavirus hospital situation in Wichita has worsened one week after a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations caused the city’s two major hospitals to hit their capacities for intensive care unit patients.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
In ordinary times, the airy convention center on a 61-acre site in Hesston, Kansas, hosts weddings, corporate retreats and church events. During the pandemic, it has become a schoolhouse for the district’s seventh- and eighth-graders. Megan Kohlman teaches literature and writing inside one of the rooms, separated from a math teacher’s space by only a plastic sheet. It’s hardly ideal, but for her it’s an upgrade from distance learning in the spring, when she juggled instruction with care of her own young children. “Everyone just really believes in the power of having kids with us as much as we can,” Kohlman said.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
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