Lead For Kansas and the national nonprofit Lead For America announced its 2022 Fellowship application for Kansas on March 10. Selected Fellows will address Kansas’ most pressing challenges at the local level and join a national cohort of other leaders committed to supporting the communities they call home. The Fellowship application closes on April 15.
The Dodge City Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a coffee at the Ford County Retired and Senior Volunteer Program office on Tuesday, March 8. At the event, Doug Hart was recognized for his 17 years of service as an RSVP bus driver. Pictured (left to right) are Annalynn Kirkhart, Ford County RSVP Director; Doug Hart, RSVP Bus Driver; and Bill Carr, Ford County Sheriff, who was the winner of the Dodge City Community College gift basket. [PHOTO BY Lance Ziesch/Dodge City Community College]
Kansas State University researchers continue to unlock the complexity of the wheat genome, recently publishing findings of a study that characterized numerous genes duplicated thousands of years ago to understand how they control wheat yield and other desirable traits.
The first meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production will be available for all to attend via Zoom March 23-24. The two-day meeting will begin at 11 a.m.
TOPEKA — Kansas Electric Cooperatives representative Leslie Kaufman is likely to view any weather anomaly tagged with the name Uri as a pseudonym for financial menace. Kaufman joined a chorus of energy and political interests Tuesday by endorsing a Kansas House resolution urging full investigation of the winter ice storm Uri in February 2021 that resulted in blackouts for 10 million people in the United States and Mexico and placement of 170 million Americans under weather alerts by the National Weather Service.
The Dodge City High School Athletic Department has been live streaming events since 2007. The mission was to provide a means for extended family, fans, and alumni to view varsity games for football and basketball.
TOPEKA — An effort to allow certain Kansas retailers to sell fireworks year-round fell well short of the needed votes Monday, after some state Senators raised concern about an amendment that could have lead to a firework ban.
TOPEKA, Kan. – Throughout the 2021-22 school year the Kansas State High School Activities Association has been and will continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX. Saturday, March 12, the KSHSAA will take another step to recognize those individuals who have shown us success and leadership in girls’ sports with their inclusion of the presentation of game balls and awards before and after the championship games.
It might not have occurred to the city commissioners inside the city hall chambers but technical difficulties with its website made viewing their meeting Monday night an impossibility. Commissioners Michael Burns, Joe Nuci, Chuck Taylor and Rick Sowers were present for the meeting.
“You still want your dream?” Mike Weber asked his sister Sandy on Oct. 31, 2021.