AUGUSTA -- The City of Augusta has announced that City Manager Josh Shaw has made a conditional offer of employment to Todd Ackerman for the position of Director of Public Safety. Ackerman has accepted the offer, which is contingent on a successful background check that will be completed by an outside agency.
Be sure to put “Take a Stroll Down Main Street” on your holiday bucket list this year and check out all the beautiful window displays. That is exactly what many shoppers during Old Fashioned Christmas as they made their way past cheerfully decorated windows throughout downtown.
Kansas is having a bumper year for tax revenue, and a Republican-led group of lawmakers are brainstorming ways to limit government spending. As state coffers are flush with cash and politicians ponder how to spend the windfall, the Legislature’s Special Committee on Taxation is weighing tax and expenditure limitation policies.
Kansas officials approved millions of dollars in federal pandemic aid to continue funding COVID-19 testing through the winter and give raises to certain state employees. The $27 million for COVID-19 testing will keep state-funded programs for businesses and some community clinics.
Sen. Bob Dole returned to his home of Russell one last time Saturday as the city celebrated his life at a memorial service, followed by a final visit to the Kansas Statehouse, where his political career started.
On the heels of announcing a nearly $10,000 total for the annual Toy Run motorcycle ride, the Salvation Army is announcing a fund-raising effort for this weekend and next. “The need people in El Dorado and Butler County are facing this year is greater than we have experienced in our lifetimes,” said said Major Merrill Powers, Commander for the South Central Area Salvation Army.
Old Fashioned Christmas brought hundreds of families into downtown El Dorado for the weekend activities which culminated in the Christmas tree lighting at the Historic Butler County Courthouse on Dec. 4.
AUGUSTA -- During a morning routine trash pickup on Tuesday, Dec. 7, there was an incident involving one of the city’s automated trucks.
Death rates among Native, Hispanic and Black Americans still outpace pre-pandemic figures, showing the hidden toll of COVID-19 on communities of color even as vaccines have become widely available, according to data released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WASHINGTON – A report showing inflation rising at its fastest rate in nearly four decades raised fresh questions Friday about the fate of President Joe Biden’s social and environment legislation, with both sides hoping it would influence whether pivotal Sen. Joe Manchin will back the proposal.