Kansas schools are about to get some help confronting bullying.University of Kansas psychology professor Robert Harrington is creating a certificate program to help schools address the problem. The program will be available online for educators across the state.Kansas is not among the 33 states with statewide policies on school bullying. Instead, districts adopt their own. …
Greensburg could harvest a different kind of oil boom. Representatives of the Oklahoma City-based SR2O Holdings described to city leaders Thursday how a factory using the pyrolysis process and other technology could convert red cedar trees into oil. (Read more at Hutch News)
Augusta community members showed strong support for a proposed new water line project, and a possible sales tax to fund it, during a town hall meeting Thursday night. … City council members must make a decision during their next meeting on Tuesday, September 4th for the sales tax to appear on the November ballot. … …
A river runs through it, but Bruce Arnhold still must make the drive here from Hays several times each week to fill up two galvanized steel stock tanks. The city of Russell’s No. 2 well supplies the water for him. It’s all part of a lease agreement, letting Russell draw up the water for its …
Kansas may lose a significant stretch of Amtrak’s Southwest Chief passenger train service because of deteriorating train tracks and the state’s refusal to spend millions to fix it up. Amtrak officials told the state that the Southwest Chief – which runs daily from Chicago to Los Angeles with stops in Newton and elsewhere in Kansas …
In Pittsburg… Little Balkans Days will include all the favorite activities people have come to associate with the event, just rearranged a little bit, according to Brett Dalton, president of the Little Balkans Festival Association. There will also be a new emphasis placed on the rich culture and history of the Little Balkans area. In …
General Motors Co. is considering a massive expansion to the paint facility at its Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City, Kan. GM has applied for $120 million in industrial revenue bonds to retrofit and expand its paint facility operation by as much as 400,000 square feet. The $120 million figure represents the level of industrial …
In an effort to increase student learning time by roughly 26 days a year a school district in Huntsville, Ala. has voted to equip twenty buses with wireless internet routers. In the rural district students on these bus routes spend an average of two hours per day going to and from school. Each system is …
When John Riggs, a planning and zoning consultant from Lindsborg, met recently with the Reno County Planning Commission, he presented three scenarios for projecting the county’s population growth through 2030. Each assumed modest natural growth resulting from a birth rate exceeding the death rate. The differences were in the number of new people moving to …
After months of wrangling over details, Sedgwick County and the city of Wichita are moving forward to consolidate code enforcement. “I’m relieved and delighted that we’re at this point finally,” Commissioner Dave Unruh said Wednesday before voting to approve a resolution creating a merged Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department. “I’ve been anxious that we …
No on I-codes, at least for now. The Douglas County Commission postponed approval of a new set of building codes in its Wednesday night meeting, saying that more discussion with builders and public contribution was needed. (Read more at LJWorld.com stories)
Haven City Hall and the community’s largest employer are locked in a fight over annexation that has led to a lawsuit. The Haven City Council voted in June to annex property owned by Reno Manufacturing Inc. and occupied by Haven Steel Products Inc., 13206 S. Willison Rd. The action will expand the city’s tax base, …
Jim Skelton wants to help people who live in Oaklawn — but he’s not so sure he wants to help landlords who rent to people who live in Oaklawn. The Sedgwick County commissioner voted Wednesday to apply for a community development block grant of $400,000 to rehabilitate homes in Oaklawn. But he said he didn’t …
The Unified Government Board of Commissioners will discuss a pending major economic development project in Wyandotte County during a Special Workshop Session on Thursday, August 30 at 6:30pm…. The projects involves a substantial investment and plant expansion by a large Wyandotte County manufacturer. (Read more at Kansas City Kansan)
The Pittsburg City Commission took action to shore up the city’s severe weather warning system. The story actually starts months ago, when a wind storm knocked power out of much of the area. Because of that, when the sirens were activated, several of them did not sound. City commissioners have asked city staff to make …