The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and Sedgwick County Health Department (SCHD) continue to investigate cases of illness associated with Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, Kan., just west of Wichita. KDHE became aware of the possible link between the cases on Friday, June 18 and began investigation the same day. Initially, there were … Read more
With Donnie Jackson set to begin his first season as head coach of the Cowley College men’s basketball team, he set out to find a top assistant coach to help him during the upcoming season. Jackson found that person in Roybell Baez. Baez spent this past season with the Laramie County Golden Eagles men’s basketball … Read more
If you’re thinking about buying a new electric appliance, keep this in mind: the City of Winfield offers its electric utility customers a rebate for the purchase of energy-efficient items like refrigerators, appliances, air conditioners, and electric vehicle charging units. The rebates are offered to residential, commericial, industrial, and not-for-profit customers. If you have questions, … Read more
East Central Electric Cooperative says East Central contractors will be working in the Bixby area over the next two weeks replacing poles and upgrading our overhead lines. Crews will be starting at 141st & S. Harvard and working south for ½ mile. This area includes Springtree Estates, Dutchers Crossings, Pine Valley, and Gray Oaks. You … Read more
Cowley College is looking for a new athletic director. The college announced that Shane Larson will be leaving Arkansas City to become the new athletic director at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, IA. During the 2020-2021 season, every Tiger athletic program was ranked among the top-20 teams in the country during some point … Read more
A monthly survey of bankers in states that include Kansas shows optimism about the Midwest economy. The overall Rural Mainstreet economic index dropped from 78.8 in May to 70 in June, but any score above 50 suggests a growing economy. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss, who supervises the survey, said Kansas was among the states … Read more
A public hearing will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at the Kansas Department of Agriculture, 1320 Research Park Dr. in Manhattan, regarding the issuance of a permanent statewide quarantine of weed species that have been designated noxious by federal regulation. The proposed quarantine would replace KDA’s existing Federal Noxious Weed … Read more
The electric substation in Winfield is going to be replaced. A project would involve building a new Tie Substation on city-owned property just east of the current substation, according to ctnewsonline.com. The project is expected to cost about 11 million dollars. Guidance, the transmission partner, will cover almost two-thirds of the cost, and the city … Read more
Governor Laura Kelly encouraged Kansas families who normally aren’t required to file an income tax return to use a new online tool to quickly register for the expanded Child Tax Credit under the American Rescue Plan. The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service announced this week that the new Non-filer Sign-up … Read more
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Sedgwick County Health Department are in the preliminary stages of investigating several individuals with diarrheal illness who had visited Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, Kan., just west of Wichita. KDHE became aware of the possible link between the cases on Friday, June 18 and began … Read more