A new program will help replace and rehabilitate deficient bridges in Kansas.
The Kansas Department of Transportation has brought back the Kansas Local Bridge Improvement Program.
This program will provide $5 million to go towards cities and counties that need to replace or renovate bridges.
(Read more: KSNF/KODE – FourStatesHomepage.com)
Braxton Moral, 18, a spring graduate of Ulysses High School and Harvard, was in California this last weekend for Teen Choice 2019.
Moral was the first person to earn a high school diploma and a four-year-degree from Harvard simultaneously. He was one of eight entries receiving the Teen Choice Take Note Award, which was presented by Crayola.
The annual Teen Choice awards event, aired live Sunday on FOX from Hermosa Beach, California, recognizes entertainers and performers. Teens cast over 55 million votes via Twitter and FOX.com, according to FOX.
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)
Each of the three times it was tested this year, water provided by Auburn Rural Water District No. 1 near S.W. 61st and Hoch Road was found to be out of compliance with Environmental Protection Agency standards for a contaminant called haloacetic acids.
That district receives its water from the city of Topeka. The city blames this year’s abnormally high contaminant levels at Auburn and in other cities across Kansas on excessive rains and releases of water into the Kansas River from upstream reservoirs.
The Auburn water is still safe to drink, and customers do not need to switch to bottled water, district manager Mike Dawson said in a letter he mailed out Wednesday.
(Read more: Local – The Topeka Capital-Journal)
The top environmental and health official in the administration of Gov. Laura Kelly said understandable public attention on sustaining sufficient quantities of water in the agriculture-heavy state led to lack of focus on the quality of drinking water.
“One of the things that gets all the attention is water quantity, but I think we can’t turn a blind eye to water quality,” said Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. “We don’t want a Flint, Michigan, in Kansas.”
(Read more: News – SJ News Online – St. John, KS)
The yellow school bus has remained largely unchanged since it first debuted in 1939. But while the buses look the same, their routes have grown infinitely more complex in the past 80 years, as the number of students, schools, and road systems grow and change.
Drawing bus routes for Boston Public Schools involves challenges unique to the city. BPS allows parents to select their child’s school from a list of about ten options, in an effort to reduce inequalities that might result from isolating students to their neighborhoods. While this represents a greater level of choice than most cities, the resulting bus routes can be meandering and complicated.
(Read more: Route Fifty – All Content)
The Kansas Department of Health Environment (KDHE) Capacity Development Program, in partnership with Wichita State Environmental Finance Center (EFC), Ranson Financial and Kansas Municipal Utilities (KMU), encourages representatives from your utility to attend an upcoming rate setting and financial planning training. The session provides participants with an understanding on major considerations when setting rates; rate structure options and pricing objectives; financial planning considerations; and strategies for communicating rate information to your board and community. The training will provide classroom instruction as well as interactive participant exercises and discussion.
Training is approved for 1 CMC Experience or 1 MMC Advanced Education point for city clerks.
Complimentary book with attendance!
All participants will receive a complimentary copy of M54, Developing Rates for Small Systems, 2nd Edition by the American Water Works Association.
For some areas, school starts next week, and for many Kansas communities, the struggle isn’t bringing students into the schools but the teachers.
USD 217 Superintendent John Barrett has worked all summer to fill two teaching positions.
After making some adjustments, he said they finally found someone.
“We decided, in order to attract people, we started out with six months free rent, and we’ve since then increased it to a year,” said USD 217 Superintendent John Barrett.
Read more: KSN.
Telephone and internet service provider CenturyLink received millions of dollars in Kansas economic development incentives. But apparently it wasn’t enough.
CenturyLink informed employees in July of its decision not to renew a longstanding lease at 600 New Century Parkway in Gardner’s New Century AirCenter. The lease will expire on June 30 of next year.
(Read more: KC Star Local News)
Thursday night, the Hutchinson Police Department completed their first selective enforcement operation, resulting in multiple drug arrests, warrant arrests and citations.
It was a combined effort with the department’s Repeat Offender Unit, two K9 teams, detectives and members of the traffic bureau. Teams of two conducted multiple traffic stops, subject stops and warrant checks.
(Read more: KSN-TV)
Three people were arrested Friday afternoon after a chaotic car chase across Wichita that started at the Sedgwick County Jail.
Victor Walker, 28, was at the jail to pick up property from an inmate Friday afternoon when Sedgwick County Sheriff’s deputies realized he had an active warrant for his arrest, Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Lt. Tim Myers said.
Deputies had Walker cuffed behind his back and were processing his property when he took off, Myers said.
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