After a lifetime of preparation, K9 Gilo (pronounced with a hard “g”) is ready to get to work as the newest member of the Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office. The two-year-old Dutch Shepherd-Belgian Malinois mix dog and his handler, Deputy Mike Baumgardner, have completed obedience training and are actively patrolling the county.
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For the last year, the Eureka community has been busy moving forward since it was devastated by a tornado for the second time in two years. It was the evening of Tuesday, June 26, 2018 when an EF3 tornado traveled from the southwest corner of town, moving northeast at 152 mph, leaving many damaged homes, businesses and Eureka Junior Senior High School in its path. The storm grew quickly in intensity and left almost as quickly as it began. Over 150 properties were damaged, with over a dozen that were total losses. There were eight injuries reported, one critical.
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When a nonprofit group asked for donations to help the Hutchinson Zoo recover from flood damage, it hoped to raise $10,000 in a month or two.
Supporters passed the goal in five days.
A Facebook fundraiser organized by Friends of the Hutchinson Zoo started June 18 and passed the $10,000 goal Saturday.
The Hutchinson News reports the zoo has been closed since May 21 because of flooding. The animals are safe in temporary housing but playgrounds and five buildings were damaged.
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TOPEKA, Kan. — Longtime Rep. Jan Meyers, the first Republican woman elected to the U.S. House from Kansas, has died.
Meyers died Friday at the age of 90 at a nursing home where she was living. The cause of death was not announced.
A native of Nebraska, Meyers lived in Overland Park, Kansas, while representing the state’s 3rd Congressional District from 1985 to 1997. Before that, she served in the Kansas Senate from 1972 to 1984.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday ordered flags flown at half-staff at the Capitol complex to honor Meyers.
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ROOKS COUNTY — Another earthquake shook portions of northwest Kansas early Monday.
The quake just before 2 a.m. measured a magnitude 2.6 and was centered just north of the Ellis County line in Rooks County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Monday’s quake follows a pair of stronger earthquakes in Rooks County. The U.S. reported a 4.5 magnitude quake Saturday morning and a 3.3 temblor Friday. Both of those were centered northwest of Plainville.
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HCF
The Heartland Community Foundation (HCF), which serves Ellis, Rooks and Trego Counties, recently awarded over $165,000 in spring grants to area organizations across the three counties.
The following organizations received funding through the foundation’s Dane G. Hansen Community Grant Funds for Ellis, Rooks and Trego Counties, the Kansas Health Foundation Fund, the Stockton Community Fund and the Trego Legacy Fund.
(Read more: Hays Post)
Outgoing Hutchinson USD 308 Superintendent Gary Price wore formal dress and his successor, Mike Folks, took a front-row seat in the audience for an 11-minute school board meeting Monday night.
“Here we are, the last meeting,” Price told the school board.
“This is my 46th year as an educator, and 30 years as a superintendent,” Price said. Contributing to those 30 years were Price’s stint as USD 308 superintendent from 1995 to 2000, and his return in 2017 for two years at the helm.
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)
Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has more than $2 billion remain available this year to invest in community facilities and infrastructure projects in rural areas across the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday.
The news came as Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley released the names of 40 rural communities that are receiving a total of $50 million for projects that will benefit 631,000 rural residents.
“Modern and accessible education, health care, public safety and municipal services are foundational to quality of life in any community,” Baxley said in a news release. “Under the leadership of President [Donald] Trump and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, USDA is committed to being a strong partner to rural communities to build the facilities in which these essential services are located, and to improve the infrastructure these services rely on to operate in rural America.”
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Because water from the city’s sanitary sewer system may have gotten into Shunganunga Creek, Topeka’s city government is asking residents to avoid contact with that creek from S.W. Washburn Avenue west to the point where it enters the Kansas River.
Residents are also advised to keep pets out of that creek, said Molly Hadfield, the city’s media relations coordinator.
“This issue is due to recent heavy rain events and a mechanical issue at one of our pump stations in Central Park,” Hadfield said. “The stormwater infrastructure has been struggling to handle the excess water from recent rain events and saturated soils, known as inflow and infiltration, in the sanitary sewer system. This excess stormwater combined with sanitary flows may be causing areas of the system to overflow into the Shunganunga Creek.”
(Read more: Local Government – The Topeka Capital-Journal)
Jonathan Hunter spends all his time in a wheelchair and is dependent on his family.
But spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy doesn’t keep the 22-year-old from doing what he loves — listening to music, eating ice cream and going to the park, among other things.
Jonathan’s parents, Melody and Ed Hunter of Derby, rely on a wheelchair-accessible van to take their son everywhere. But their 1997 Dodge Caravan breaks down often.
Sedgwick County Commissioner Jim Howell, a family friend, decided to fix that. He started a fundraiser to buy the family a more reliable van, and the community rose to the occasion — exceeding the $15,000 goal in just two weeks.
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