TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall wants a television monitoring board to expand a ratings system to warn parents about content in youth programs relating to people with a desire to be another gender.
Child advocate for the Meadowlark House Child Advocacy Center Carmen Valverde and Meadowlark board president Arlyn Leaming met with Jan Scoggins, representing Dodge City Rotary Club May 4 to receive a donation for needed technical expenses. Meadowlark House Child Advocacy Center, a non-profit agency in Dodge City, provides services and work with children who are victims of abuse. [SUBMITTED PHOTO]
Bas Bleu met for our May meeting on May 6, at 9:30 a.m. for our final meeting of the year, with a member’s coffee.
The grand opening of the state-of-the-art Soulspring Spa & Wellness center is Friday, May 13. Free hotdogs, hamburgers and prizes will be available for visitors to the new business.
Dr. Larry Rodriguez, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Scripps Research Institute, of San Diego, Calif., received his Associate of Science in Biological Sciences, from Dodge City Community College (DC3) in 2012.
CIMARRON — Around noon on Thursday, May 5, EMS, fire and the Gray County Sheriff’s Office responded to a trailer fire near 4th Street and Avenue C in Cimarron. According to the Gray County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, while working the fire, an adult person was found to be deceased inside the residence.
The public is invited to attend a public meeting for the U.S. 56/U.S. 283/U.S. 400/2nd Avenue intersection improvement project just south of Dodge City on Tuesday, May 17, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the Dodge City Public Schools USD 443 Civic Center VIP Room, 2112 1st Ave. The Kansas Department of Transportation is hosting the event.
Since 1997, May has been designated as National Moving Month. It marks the beginning of the nation’s busiest time of year for moving – May through August. Your Better Business Bureau (BBB) fielded nearly 1,100 complaints against moving companies last year. BBB’s Scam Tracker had reports of more than $730,000 lost to moving scammers, a 216% increase from 2020. As we approach mid-May, this is a good time for consumers to educate themselves on how to avoid victimization by unscrupulous companies, and smooth out the famously rocky process of relocating their residence.
Dodge City Fire Department Chief Ken Spencer said the April 21 structure fire at Santa Fe Townhomes was accidental and may have been electrical in nature. Six units located on Brier Street and Avenue K were destroyed by the fire that raged for about four hours before emergency responders from the Dodge City Fire Department and Ford County Fire and EMS extinguished it.
One of the first sounds of spring is the homeowner firing up their lawn mowers and mowing their grass for the first time of the season. While some of you might be imagining a scene with Tim Taylor (Tim Allen) from the show Home Improvement, that first trim of the season can be an important one.