Parsons police take initiative to strengthen community ties

31 Wednesday, July 31

Parsons police take initiative to strengthen community ties

info2024-07-31T09:58:10-05:00July 31st, 2024|

The Parsons Police Department takes a new initiative toward improving relationships with the community. Police officers and members of the community attended the Police 2 Peace community forum held at the Parsons High School theater this evening. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, the national program aims to turn police officers into peace officers by bringing more conversations of empathy and understanding to real-life situations. The community got the chance to listen to speakers from Police 2 Peace as well as ask questions. Those questions included “Will the program help the youth” and “What can we do [...]

31 Wednesday, July 31

Andover library receives state arts funding

info2024-07-31T09:54:57-05:00July 31st, 2024|

Kansas Lieutenant Governor David Toland recently announced that nearly $1.3 million was given out to 108 recipients in the latest round of the Kansas Arts Commission grant funding. Among those entities receiving grant funding in this cycle was the Andover Public Library, which got $6,393 through an Arts Everywhere grant. Arts Everywhere grants provide funding for programs, exhibition series or other arts and culture projects. The Andover library will be using the grant to help purchase drawing tablets, a new scanner and software, as well as traditional art equipment like easels, for all-ages art classes. Source: Derby Informer | Area

31 Wednesday, July 31

Park grand opening to be held in Andover

info2024-07-31T09:53:23-05:00July 31st, 2024|

A grand opening ceremony is set to be held for Andover’s 13th Street Sports Park (1008 E. 13th St.) at 6 p.m. July 31, marking the end of an approximately year-long redevelopment process for the park that first opened in the 1980s. Elements of the first two phases to be unveiled include five new ball diamonds, a large destination playground, splash park, pickleball complex and more. The splash pad will start operations in conjunction with the grand opening. Phase three of redevelopment, to be completed in the next year or two, will include a new Andover Community Center building. The first [...]

31 Wednesday, July 31

Solar benches installed at some Wichita locations

info2024-07-31T09:50:24-05:00July 31st, 2024|

Three solar benches have been installed at a Wichita park and two neighborhood resource centers. This is part of an initiative by the Wichita Public Library to expand wireless access to residents across the city. The benches were installed at Evergreen Park and the Atwater and Colvin neighborhood resource centers. They are equipped with free public Wi-Fi and charging ports powered by solar panels on top. Residents who need to connect to a device can use these benches. Last month, the Wichita Public Library, in partnership with the Wichita Public Library Foundation, received a $289,000 grant from the State of Kansas [...]

31 Wednesday, July 31

Moundridge police report rescue of child trapped in pipe

info2024-07-31T09:48:20-05:00July 31st, 2024|

Moundridge police have reported a rescue operation that got a 14-month old child out of an underground pipe. Police and rescue crews were called to a location around 2 p.m. Sunday when it was reported that a child was trapped in a 12-inch PVC pipe that was about 12 feet underground. The child was found to be upright at the bottom of the pipe. Moundridge officer Ronnie Wagner was credited with creating a “catch pole” using a smaller PVC pipe and rope, and that was used to lift the child out. The child was shaken but not hurt. The rescue operation [...]

31 Wednesday, July 31

Commerce Announces First Regional Water Project for Rural Kansas

info2024-07-31T09:44:30-05:00July 31st, 2024|

The Kansas Department of Commerce announced today a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) award for the first regional water project in over a decade. This project will provide improved water access to residents in Coffeyville and Caney. The total cost of the project is $7,894,325, with a $1 million grant from the CDBG program. Additional funding is being provided by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). “This vital and groundbreaking partnership will significantly improve water infrastructure and ensure reliable access to clean water for residents in Caney and Coffeyville, exemplifying the tremendous value of regional collaboration,” Lieutenant Governor and [...]

31 Wednesday, July 31

Cash Managers’ Interest Rate Quandary

info2024-07-31T09:42:50-05:00July 31st, 2024|

Public cash managers today face a strategic dilemma: They can sit on money market funds, local government investment pools and ultra-short investments like repurchase agreements, all of them still yielding the highest interest rates available today. Or they can look out into 2025 and try to lock in some less spectacular but still healthy longer-term yields in anticipation of lower short-term rates next year, if and when the Federal Reserve cuts its overnight rates on the view that inflation has been tamed. The problem today is that markets have already begun to anticipate a lower-rate environment next year, and thus longer [...]

30 Tuesday, July 30

AWWA, RCAP launch partnership to help small, rural community water service

info2024-07-30T10:31:35-05:00July 30th, 2024|

The American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) in July announced the renewal of their Cooperative Agreement, reaffirming their commitment to collaborate on improving water infrastructure and services for small and rural communities across the United States. This renewed agreement builds upon a long-standing partnership between the two organizations, leveraging their combined expertise and resources to address critical water challenges faced by rural communities. The partnership will focus on providing technical assistance, training and advocacy support to enhance water system management, promote community resilience, and ensure the protection of public health and the environment. “AWWA is [...]

30 Tuesday, July 30

Investors Embrace Bond Funds Before Rates Start to Fall

info2024-07-30T10:29:36-05:00July 30th, 2024|

The stock market may be roaring, but 2024 has been Wall Street’s year of the bond fund. Bonds are paying the highest yields in a generation and interest rates are poised to come down. Meanwhile, a record number of retirees are looking to cut risk in their portfolios. That combination has investors pouring money into both indexed and actively managed funds. Wall Street is seeing dollar signs. U.S.-listed fixed-income exchange-traded funds have taken in nearly $150 billion through late July, a record through this point in a year. When looking at mutual funds and ETFs together, taxable bond funds were responsible [...]

30 Tuesday, July 30

This week’s meeting of Fed officials will be one of the most consequential in a while, even if the central bankers aren’t likely to cut interest rates this time and instead look ahead to September.

info2024-07-30T10:27:28-05:00July 30th, 2024|

While Federal Reserve officials aren’t likely to change interest rates in the coming week, their meeting will nonetheless be one of the most consequential in a while. At each of their four meetings this year, interest-rate cuts have been a question for later. This time, though, inflation and labor-market developments should allow officials to signal a cut is very possible at their next meeting, in September. As a result, the coming week’s meeting, which wraps up Wednesday, could resolve the trade-off Chair Jerome Powell has been weighing between the risks of cutting rates too soon and waiting too long, in favor [...]