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Elanco to expand manufacturing facility in Kan., to create antibodies for parvovirus
(GREENWOOD, Ind.) Elanco Animal Health Incorporated announced on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, that they will be expanding their facility in Elwood, Kan. in an effort to increase the manufacturing capabilities for their antibody platform. Elanco describes themselves by saying,. "A global leader in animal health dedicated to innovating and delivering...
Boom! Salina Street Art & Mural Festival set to return in Oct.
Boom! Salina Street Art & Mural Festival is back for a thrilling third year, set to add more murals to the growing Salina Kanvas gallery. Slated for September 30th-October 5th, the festival features an impressive line-up of muralists invited from around the world, each infusing Salina Downtown with their own signature artistic styles.
Freaking Delicious Cheesecake Company celebrates expansion
What began as an urgent effort to cover emergency vet bills, quickly blossomed into a thriving business. The Great Bend Chamber of Commerce proudly celebrated the inspiring journey of Freaking Delicious Cheesecake Company with a Ribbon Cutting on Thursday, August 19th, at 10:30 am. The event marked not only the company’s official membership with the Chamber but also the exciting expansion of its services, featuring the debut of a brand-new Cheesecake Trailer.
SCCC Library to host Holocaust exhibit
The Seward County Community College Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries newly selected to host “Americans and the Holocaust,” a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.
Cherryvale Sports Led by New Athletic Director
It's a new era for Cherryvale Charger athletics, with the hiring of a new Athletic Director. Kandra Smith takes over as the head of Charger athletics, replacing the outgoing Rodney Vigil. Smith says the opportunity was one that made sense for her entire family. Cherryvale has been one of the...
Barton Commission speaks transmission corridor; event to be livestreamed
A proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor (NIETC) continues to generate discussion in Central Kansas. Several hundred people attended an informational meeting in Larned last Thursday, and the Barton County Commission will host another informational meeting tonight at the Great Bend Events Center, 3111 10th Street. Commissioner Shawn Hutchinson provided a preview of tonight's discussion during Tuesday's regularly-scheduled meeting. The NIETC stems from one entity, Grain Belt Express, wanting to construct a transmission line from Dodge City 780 miles east to Indiana.
Lokal Eatz, a new truck, offering Indian street food
Looking for Indian street foods? Check out a new food truck located at 5220 E. 21st. St. near 21st and Oliver. It’s called Lokal Eatz. It’s a convenient stop in the evening that’s open every day from 5 p.m. to midnight,. =================. 5220 E 21st St. N,...
South KC private schools share improvements for 2024-2025 school year
The Barstow School has a plethora of exciting things in store for their upcoming school year. Classes began on August 15. Knights Drive — After undertaking a massive capital campaign, a second driveway was added on campus; Knights Drive, south of their main drive on State Line Road, was built to be their new arrival and dismissal point for their middle school. This road was created in response to their student growth over the past few decades and a need to ameliorate the “pinch” points in traffic at arrival and dismissal times. Knights Drive extends around the baseball field to the middle school entrance and new parking lot.
Toastique to celebrate grand opening on September 7
The grand opening of Toastique is officially set for Saturday, September 7. The new gourmet toast and juice cafe will be located at 9747 E 21st N St. Suite 115 within the Cambridge Marketplace. To help commemorate the day, the first 100 guests in line at Toastique’s community-focused Grand Opening...
Country music star to open another season at the McCain Auditorium this September
A country music star is set to kick off a new season of performances at the McCain Auditorium later this year. Country star Aaron Watson will kick off the new season in the McCain Performance Series on Thursday Sept. 5 with a performance beginning at 7:30 p.m. Watson has been...
HCA Midwest Health Selects Janie Thompson as Menorah Medical Center COO
Overland Park-based Menorah Medical Center announced Janie Thompson will be joining the hospital as chief operating officer. Thompson, a Leawood native, will be returning to Johnson County after most recently serving as COO for HCA Healthcare’s St. David’s Georgetown Hospital in Texas. She served as COO there for over a year, according to her LinkedIn profile.
11 DAYS TO 2024 KICKOFF: Darell Jones
Goal No. 11: DON’T ACCEPT LOSING. If you do so one time, it will be easy to do so for the rest of your life. Redshirt Junior | 5-11 | 180 lbs. | Coffeyville, Kansas. Darell Jones (b. Dec. 10, 2001) is a speedy defensive back majoring in social sciences from Field Kindley High School in Coffeyville who redshirted and did not see playing time in 2021.
2024 High School Football Previews: Frontenac Raiders
FRONTENAC, KS – The Raiders are starting off their season with a familiar face. Head coach Leon Miller is certainly no stranger to Raider Football. Returning after eighteen years at the helm, Miller won over 130 games at Frontenac from 1989-2005. The long term head coach would go on to pursue coaching at Parsons, Neosho, and Warsaw.
Manhattan is ‘special place’ for incoming city manager Danielle Dulin
Home is where the heart is, and Manhattan’s newest city manager said she is returning to work in a community she always has loved. Long before the Manhattan city commission appointed Danielle Dulin as city manager early this month, she was an economics student at K-State. She grew up in the small Kansas town of Bucklin about 30 miles southeast of Dodge City, but it was in the Little Apple that she met Mike, her husband and a fellow K-State graduate, and began her professional career.
Atrium Hotel unsafe and dangerous
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson City Council, after an hour-long hearing at their regular meeting, unanimously approved the recommendation of staff on Tuesday to find that the Atrium Hotel and Conference Center at 1400 North Lorraine in Hutchinson is unsafe and dangerous as defined in Chapter 21, Article VII, Unsafe and Dangerous Buildings of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Hutchinson.
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