Summer, which officially arrived Friday, is regarded as the deadliest days of the year for teen drivers.
Memorial Day to Labor Day, when students are out of school, is a time period known as the 100 deadliest days for young, inexperienced drivers.
A study by the American Automobile Association (AAA) shows the average number of deadly teen vehicle crashes climbs 15% during the summer compared to the rest of the year.
(Read more: Leavenworth Times)
GEARY COUNTY — Travel and landscape photographer Mickey Shannon, of Wichita, has visited most of the 80 waterfalls in Kansas on his list.
In a 2017 blog on “There’s No Place Like Kansas” website, Shannon ranked Geary Lake Falls No. 1.
Located south of Junction City, Geary County Falls is formed by the outlet from Geary State Fishing Lake and is only active in the spring or after a heavy rain. Like most spillway falls in Kansas, when the water is running low, they nearly dry up.
(Read more: Leavenworth Times)
TOPEKA – Humanities Kansas recently awarded $4,000 to the Kansas Rural Center (KRC) in support of the “Kansas Future of Farming & Food Town Halls.”
KRC will host a series of five town hall meetings across the state in July and August focused on engaging the public in conversations about the future of food and farming, climate and energy issues, and rural revitalization, using stories from our past and present to address future solutions with a holistic and inclusive approach.
“Humanities Kansas supports projects that create dialogue about important issues,” said Julie Mulvihill, Humanities Kansas Executive Director. “This series of public events asks scholars, policy experts, producers, and community members think critically about where we’ve been and where we are going with food and farming in Kansas.”
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)
Lenexa is making public improvements to a stretch of Sante Fe Trail Drive and the intersection at West 95th Street.
City leaders this week authorized the acquisition and condemnation of land along the project area, which provides easements and rights-of-way for construction and utility work.
The project involves the construction of turn lanes, replacing traffic signals, relocating drive approaches, replacing storm and drainage facilities, and constructing a multi-use trail.
(Read more: Prairie Village Post – Neighborhood news and events for Prairie Village, Fairway, Mission Hills)
Beginning July 6 people who want to go to downtown Overland Park on Farmer’s Market Saturdays will have a new transportation option. The city and county decided this week to extend a micro transit pilot project to provide Saturday service to the market.
Micro transit is a relatively new concept being explored by the county as an alternative to the bigger fixed-route bus service. Basically it works like the Uber or Lyft ride-share programs. Users hail a ride with an app or a phone call and are picked up at a nearby intersection. The difference is that they ride in a multi-passenger van rather than a car. Cost of a ride is $1.50 during the test period.
(Read more: Prairie Village Post – Neighborhood news and events for Prairie Village, Fairway, Mission Hills)
For years, (Abilene) parents have told stories of driving teams to towns all across the state for weekend tournaments. They seem to mention they are gone almost every weekend from early May until mid July traveling 1,000s of miles busing kids to either a baseball or softball tournament.
Funny thing – they never mentioned staying at home and playing in a tournament.
Why is this? In a time when the City of Abilene and the County of Dickinson County are scratching their heads and wringing their hands trying to figure out an economic developmental solution – why not look no further than why families are traveling away from Abilene so often in the summer months?
Maybe a solution could be that if Abilene had suitable facilities and a person willing to host the tournaments, it could be an easy monitorial impetus the city needs for the foreseeable future. Other cities and towns of Abilene’s size have successfully proven it can be done.
Read more: Abilene Reflector-Chronicle.
The Kansas Department of Transportation has given its approval of OCCK taking over the city of Abilene’s public transportation, Interim City Manager Jane Foltz told the Abilene City Commission at a study session earlier this week.
The city of Abilene primarily provides demand-response transportation as well as curb-to-curb service through the Parks and Recreation Department.
Foltz, director of the parks department, said the process of OCCK taking on the public transportation has been a long one.
Read more: Abilene Reflector-Chronicle.
City Manager Tom Markus’ recommended budget is proposing the first salary increase for city commissioners in 20 years, but commissioners disagree on how much salaries should go up.
Budget and Strategic Initiatives Manager Danielle Buschkoetter told the commission at its meeting Tuesday that the recommended budget would increase salaries for commissioners to $38,000. Buschkoetter said there wasn’t a good benchmark for what other communities paid their elected leaders but that the increase would bring City Commission salaries more in line with what Douglas County commissioners make annually. While most commissioners said they thought the raise was needed so that the commissioner pay did not prohibit some people from running for office, they were also concerned about increasing it so much in one year.
Read more: LJWorld.com.
WATHENA — A Kansas leader is on a tour to assure constituents and businesses that he won’t approach their needs with a “Let them eat cake” attitude.
Visiting Marie Antoinette’s Gluten Free Bake Shoppe and the Dairy Barn family restaurant on Thursday afternoon in Wathena, Lt. Gov. Lynn Rogers emphasized how the Democratic-led administration of Gov. Laura Kelly wants to dispel the notion that the state government cares only for Topeka, Johnson County and other high-population communities.
“For both Governor Kelly and myself, that’s really important. We want to be out in the country and on a regular basis,” Rogers said. “Every time we hear a suggestion, we’ll have some staff look into that … Some we might be able to change with regulations, some we might have to have legislation, and some may not be possible; some may be federal, but then our job is make sure that we send it to our federal delegation so they understand this is something that’s hindering rural Kansas.”
(Read more: Atchison Globe Now)
After nearly four years of planning and construction, the new Emporia Wastewater Treatment Plant was unveiled during a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday morning.
The plant has been converted to an Integrated Fixed Film Activated Sludge — or IFAS — system to allow the city to comply with new environmental regulations. The City of Emporia first became aware of the upcoming regulations — which are set to take effect in 2022 — in 2015.
This is the first system of its kind in Kansas.
(Read more: Emporia Gazette)
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