Addressing the EMS shortage There is a shortage of fire and EMS volunteers in Kansas, and in Harvey County, including Newton, Halstead, Hesston, Burrton and Sedgwick. My suggestion to relieve the shortage of volunteers is to start recruiting high school students as fire and EMS volunteers.
Editor’s Note: One of the students in this story, Elizabeth Frey, is the daughter of Kansan Managing Editor Chad Frey. Maggie Kepley and Elizabeth Frey, sixth-graders at Santa Fe 5/6 Center, made good use of an unexpected day off from school on Monday morning.
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Independent investigators paint a very different picture from what oil company TC Energy has said publicly about events that led to the Keystone pipeline’s biggest oil spill ever. Their report says, for instance, that the company dug up the section of pipe nearly a decade before it burst because it knew the pipe had warped.
It was an item added to the agenda at the meeting that proved to be the most divisive among Harvey county commissioners on May 23. “In preparing for the budget season, I wanted to pull up some reports and stuff,” said commissioner Becky Reimer “...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Politicians from Missouri and Kansas on Thursday touted the spending of millions of tax dollars and unveiled a new nonprofit organization to get Kansas City ready to host men’s World Cup matches in 2026.
The official dedication and ribbon cutting for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan this week is very welcome news. It also makes me feel old since the process to get here has taken nearly the entirety of my adult life.
April 20, 2001 - May 20, 2023 Andrew smiled to the very end. For someone who couldn’t use his words, he most definitely made his feelings known.
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