The battle over whether or not wind turbines will be constructed in Harvey County took center stage of the Harvey County Commission meeting Sept. 20, with the public comment section of the meeting becoming an extension of a planning and zoning meeting the previous week.
WASHINGTON — Farmers and academics at a Wednesday hearing stressed the need for members of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee to support regenerative agriculture farming practices in the upcoming farm bill to protect topsoil. U.S. House Agriculture Committee Chair David Scott said he held the hearing to discuss ways policymakers and the Department of Agriculture could help farmers incorporate regenerative agriculture practices. That investment in soil health would curb climate change and prevent a food shortage, the Georgia Democrat said.
LANSING, Kan. (KNS/TCJ) - Inmate Terry Bowen barely copes with the pain from a variety of medical problems.
The Harvey County Health Department has a limited number of COVID boosters, the new “Bivalent” boosters designed to take on a rapidly spreading variant of the virus. “Everyone has been hearing about the bivalent booster, we currently have 100 doses in our office of the Moderna booster that is eligible for 18 and older,” said Lynette Redington, director of the Harvey County Health Department.
Tuesday the Harvey County Commission hosted a public hearing that came and went in nearly the blink of an eye. The hearing was labeled “Solid Waste Fee Delinquency Hearing,” designed for anyone who wanted to protest a delinquency notice that may have been received recently.
Newton Recreation Center launched “Girls of the Run” Sept. 12, a fitness program for girls in third through fifth grades.
TOME, N.M. (AP) — A missing New Mexico woman has been found dead and her husband has been arrested in Kansas in connection with the case, according to authorities.
TOPEKA — Kansas Board of Education member Betty Arnold believes a program offering lower-income students nine credit hours of college courses while in high school can propel more toward two- or four-year degrees — on one condition.
WICHITA, Kansas — Federal pandemic programs that buoyed health insurance rates nationwide in 2021 didn’t ultimately lead to an increase in coverage in Kansas — meaning that, for the first time in decades, Kansans are significantly less likely to have health insurance than the U.S. population as a whole. As millions of Americans lost jobs and with it their employer-based health insurance, the federal government enacted broad relief measures to help people access coverage. Those programs contributed to a marked drop in the rate of uninsured Americans in 2021 to match a prior record low of 8.6%, according to new data released this week by the Census Bureau. But the rate of uninsured Kansans remained steady between 2019 and 2021 at 9.2%.
The children ran for the house the moment we got there. Uncle Vernon’s house was never boring. With twin boys in their 20s, our little boys never cease to be amazed over all their fishing and hunting gear and all big boys can do.