What do the Riverfront Legacy Master Plan designs mean for Century II?

“How do we honor our past and move forward at the same time?” asks Evan Rosell with the greater Wichita Partnership. This is the question of debate for the Riverfront Legacy Master Plan.

Thursday Nov. 14, Project Wichita, released five potential designs. They have been working on these designs for five months. Of those options many include removing the old Central Wichita Library and Century II buildings.

“Even though we’re sort of removing something, an iconic thing from the city. We are giving something back,” said Amber Luther, Senior Associate for Populous design firm.

(Read more: KSN-TV)

Ranson Financial2019-11-17T21:18:56-06:00November 17, 2019|News|

Over 100 years of farming history up for auction in Mulvane

It’s a glimpse into how farming in Kansas used to be done more than 100 years ago.

Steam-engine tractors and other old farm parts are being auctioned off this weekend in Mulvane.

Hard to think that these antique machines operated solely on coal, and not diesel fuel, to plow Kansas fields.

(Read more: KSN-TV)

Ranson Financial2019-11-17T21:15:39-06:00November 17, 2019|News|

Will the county switch hours to match the city schedule?

Seward County commissioners are scheduled to hear from a county employee Tuesday about the results of survey work concerning possible new hours at the Administration Building.

Anabel Clinesmith, who works in the county clerk’s office, recently presented a Capstone Project to the commission at its Oct. 21 meeting to change hours in the Admin Building.

The project was required as part of the Certified Public Manager Program. Clinesmith suggested changing the hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday.

(Read more: Liberal First)

Ranson Financial2019-11-17T21:14:33-06:00November 17, 2019|News|

County commission to attend Nickerson city council meeting

The Reno County Board of Commissioners will attend the Nickerson City Council meeting Monday night.

The board meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 15 N. Nickerson Street.

Commission Chairman Bob Bush suggested back in October that the board meet in Nickerson when it had issues to update the public on.

(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)

Ranson Financial2019-11-17T21:12:51-06:00November 17, 2019|News|

Topeka mayor, council to consider scheduling term limits vote

Topeka’s mayor and city council members on Tuesday will consider giving Topekans a November 2020 ballot question vote on whether to impose term limits on the mayor and council.

A proposal that would make that move will be among items on the agenda when the mayor and council meet at 6 p.m. in their chambers at 214 S.E. 8th.

The Shawnee County Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Monday in its chambers in Room B-11 of the County Courthouse, 200 S.E. 7th, where commissioners will hear an update on the county’s revenues and expenses as of Oct. 31.

Ranson Financial2019-11-17T21:11:21-06:00November 17, 2019|News|

New signs to highlight bicycle routes

Hundreds of cyclists come through the southeast Kansas region every year, new signs will help guide cyclists who are taking the U.S. Bicycle Routes 76 and 66.

On Thursday in Riverton, the Kansas Department of Transportation and other organizations unveiled new signs that are part of the U.S. Bicycle Routes (USBRs) 76 and 66 signing initiative.

Present at the unveiling was Roger Lomshek who is a Crawford County Active Transportation Advisory Board Chairman, owner of Tailwind Cyclists and avid cyclist.

(Read more: State News – Morning Sun)

Ranson Financial2019-11-17T21:09:54-06:00November 17, 2019|News|

Counties, including Neosho, take on the opioid industry

More than two dozen cities and counties across Kansas have sued the opioid industry, from a small town with a population of 150 near the Colorado border to the state’s most populous county at its opposite end.

(Read more: The Chanute Tribune)

Ranson Financial2019-11-17T21:08:48-06:00November 17, 2019|News|

Harvey County Sheriff’s Office looking for good reads

For those being held in the Harvey County Detention Center, recreational outlets are limited. Inmates are allowed minimal time to play games, watch TV and exercise — so reading has become a big hobby for those being detained.

“They always want books. This is their big activity,” said Ray Nicodemus, detention center director of support services. “That library is a big boon to the inmates.”

Nicodemus noted inmates routinely look forward to their time in the library on Saturdays, so they can pick out what they’re going to read next. Limited to carrying paperback books, Nicodemus said wear and tear becomes an issue with the selection offered to inmates. To help, the Harvey County Sheriff’s Office recently launched a book drive to assist in restocking the library at the detention center.

(Read more: Newton Kansan)

Ranson Financial2019-11-17T21:06:19-06:00November 17, 2019|News|

Hays looks into nonprofit status of WaterPACK

Faced with one nagging enemy of its longtime effort to pipe water from Edwards County, the city of Hays is looking into the nonprofit status of the Water Protection Association of Central Kansas.

Known as WaterPACK for short, the group has been a thorn in the side of Hays and Russell for years. The group has tried to stop the cities from exercising their water rights on a 7,000-acre ranch the two bought in 1995 to ensure a future municipal water supply, according to City Manager Toby Dougherty.

“Throughout this whole process we have only had one active opponent of this project,” said Dougherty, speaking Thursday evening to the Hays City Commission at its regular meeting in City Hall.

(Read more: Newton Kansan)

Ranson Financial2019-11-17T21:04:07-06:00November 17, 2019|News|

If you could be mayor

Scott City Mayor Everett Green found himself fielding a variety of questions that ranged from his salary, to the most expensive project the city has had to undertake during his time on the city council.

And he loved every minute of it during his annual presentation to Scott City Middle School seventh graders as part of the “If I were mayor . . .” writing contest.

“This is one of the two things that I enjoy most as mayor,” said Green, who has met with SCMS students each of the past three years since taking office.

(Read more: Scott County Record RSS)

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