Harvey County Commission extends face mask order through Oct. 19

The Harvey County Commission voted at its commission meeting on Tuesday to extend a local order requiring face masks to be worn through Oct. 19 in a continued effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The face mask order requires individuals to wear a face mask over their nose and mouth in any indoor or outdoor public space where social distancing cannot be maintained at all times. It is the second extension of the local face mask order. The commission implemented a local order beginning July 15, and extended it on Aug. 11.
Source: KSN-TV

Ranson Financial2020-09-16T07:29:56-05:00September 15, 2020|News|

Girard residents to receive free meals thanks to grant

Starting this Friday, Girard residents will be eligible for free meals through a grant. Greenbush and the city of Girard partnered together to offer this with CDBG funds. Residents can get free meals from September 18th through the 25th at 102 North Ozark from 10:30 a.m. To 12:30 p.m. All they need to bring is either their driver’s license or a bill to show their proof of residency. Food will be given out on a first come first served basis.
Source: KSNF/KODE

Ranson Financial2020-09-16T07:30:19-05:00September 15, 2020|News|

Continuing mask order in Johnson County, Kansas, will go up for debate this week

Johnson County, Kansas, leaders will consider whether to keep requiring residents to wear masks this week. It comes after a county commissioner falsely claimed the mask mandate had already been lifted. ShananiGanns Boutique in Shawnee is chock full of unique items. Tucked in with all the merchandise are row after row of face masks. “We have masks for first communions, for weddings, for every high school and grade school,” said ShananiGanns owner Kristina Gann Albright. Sales of the coverings have helped lift the small business up after losses suffered during the stay-at-home orders when its doors were closed.
Source: fox4kc.com | FOX 4 – WDAF

Ranson Financial2020-09-16T07:30:40-05:00September 15, 2020|News|

Basehor establishes Municipal Services Department

The city of Basehor has created a new Municipal Services Department. City Administrator Leslee Rivarola said in a news release that the department will oversee all public infrastructure in Basehor. This will include building permits and inspections. According to Rivarola, the city is taking a “one-stop shop” approach to deliver construction services by consolidating certain services under the leadership of one department.”
Source: Leavenworth Times

Ranson Financial2020-09-16T07:30:53-05:00September 15, 2020|News|

The Federal Reserve will stay on hold until 2023, according to CNBC survey

In the first CNBC Fed Survey since the Federal Reserve announced its new, more dovish monetary policy strategy, respondents now forecast no rate hikes from the central bank until 2023. The results are a potential first sign that the Fed’s new strategy of targeting average inflation, where it will allow inflation to run above its 2% target for an unspecified time, have had an immediate impact on the rate outlook. The new average forecast, which has the Fed on hold until February 2023, is six months later than the July survey and comes amid more upbeat views on the economic recovery and higher inflation forecasts. Under the previous strategy, where the Fed aimed for a symmetrical 2% target, those conditions might have brought forward the outlook for rate hikes.
Source: CNBC

Ranson Financial2020-09-16T07:31:34-05:00September 15, 2020|News|

A production company is filming a Netflix-funded documentary at Haysville’s Campus High

Haysville, Kansas, is getting a shot at stardom. Some of its high school students are, at least. A New York City television production company called Left/Right Productions now has at least three camera crews at Haysville’s Campus High School following 10 different seniors through their final year of high school. They’re working on a documentary project titled “The Graduates” that has funding from Netflix and may eventually be picked up and aired by the streaming service, said Adia Ludwig, the communication director for USD 261 in Haysville.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

Ranson Financial2020-09-16T07:31:45-05:00September 15, 2020|News|

The Keeper statue stolen from Planeview Park has been recovered

The Keeper statue that was taken from Wichita’s Planeview Park by vandals over the weekend has been found and returned to Together Wichita, the group that initiated the Keeper 150 project. But it’s so badly damaged that it’s not likely repairable, they said on Tuesday. On Monday, a resident spotted the missing statue in the grass beside a creek that runs by Colvin Elementary School, said Tessa Brungardt, who manages the Keeper project for Together Wichita. That resident called Brungardt, who alerted the city of Wichita. Its maintenance workers retrieved the statue on Monday evening. The creek is not far from Planeview Park, 2819 Fees St.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

Ranson Financial2020-09-16T07:31:56-05:00September 15, 2020|News|

COVID-19 cases increase, McPherson reconsiders mask ordinance

Cases of COVID-19 have increased in McPherson County, leading city commissioners to reconsider the mask ordinance. Just last week the city commission voted unanimously to allow the mask ordinance to expire. “I am less impacted by petitions and comments and more impacted by data,” Mayor Tom Brown said Monday morning. “And the data showed on Wednesday I believe that we had five cases per 100,000 seven day moving average. That is very low. Unfortunately, we had a spike of 25 to 30 positive cases. As of the last report I saw from the health department we had 40 active cases. We jumped all the way to 23 cases per 100,000 seven day moving average. That is only two cases away from being in the highest category.”
Source: McPherson Weekly News » Feed

Ranson Financial2020-09-16T07:33:23-05:00September 15, 2020|News|

Mission police officers who answered shooting call near Highlands Elementary among those honored at recent ceremony

Officer Jay Fleer (right) and Samantha Kunzler-Bryant (middle) receive the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police Gold Award for Uncommon Valor in connection to their response to the March 2019 Highlands Elementary shooting incident. Photo submitted by Emily Randel. The city of Mission recently honored Officers Jay Fleer and Samantha Kunzler-Bryant for their response to the Highlands Elementary shooting incident in March 2019. Although Mission would typically present officer awards during city council meetings — which have turned virtual due to COVID-19 — the city held a socially-distanced officer award ceremony Friday to honor police going above and beyond. Fleer and Kunzler-Bryant were among awardees, and received the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police Gold Award for Uncommon Valor in connection to the Highlands shooting.
Source: Shawnee Mission Post

Ranson Financial2020-09-16T07:35:06-05:00September 15, 2020|News|

The Fed could could still move markets Wednesday even with rates on hold for the foreseeable

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference following the January 28-29 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, in Washington, DC on January 29, 2020. While committed to keeping interest rates low for the next several years, the Federal Reserve still has plenty of work to do as it steers the U.S. economy through the pandemic. As central bank officials gather Tuesday and Wednesday for their policy meeting, a number of items are on the agenda, even as the mystery of where rates are headed has disappeared. The Federal Open Market Committee will provide its quarterly update on where it sees GDP, unemployment and inflation heading. It also will take up the issue of whether it should provide clearer guidance on what it will take to raise rates in the future, and it could switch its bond-buying strategy to go beyond supporting market functioning to one that backstops the broader economy as well.
Source: CNBC – Bonds

Ranson Financial2020-09-16T07:37:03-05:00September 15, 2020|News|

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