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A trio of area teachers are among those being honored by the the Kansas State Department of Education as recipients of the 2025 Kansas Horizon Award, a program recognizing the outstanding teaching skills of new educators. Area teachers being honored include: Emma Lidstrom, Coronado Elementary School, Salina USD 305 Jessyka Mikkelson, Southeast of Saline Elementary ...

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The Bethany College Music Department is rehearsing and is ready for its spring schedule of musical events, which are free and open to the public. According to the school, this semester the department continues its tradition of offering a wide variety of performances, from student and faculty recitals to large-scale ensemble concerts. These events provide opportunities ...

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Soldiers from Fort Riley are among those who have been ordered to the southern border. According to the military, about 200 troops from the 977th Military Police Company and the armored 41st Combat Engineer Company have deployed. The Fort Riley soldiers are among 1,500 active-duty personnel from the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps deploying to ...

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Meteorologists from the National Weather Service are preparing for a kind of barnstorming tour to help prepare storm spotters and weather enthusiasts for the upcoming severe weather season. They are getting ready to head out across the state to present severe weather safety and information talks. According to the National Weather Service in Wichita, they will ...

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Several students from the Salina area are among forty-four Kansas State University students who are receiving research awards for the spring 2025 semester. Award recipients conduct faculty-mentored research projects and receive $1,000 scholarships from the college. According to the school, these paid research experiences help students deepen their expertise, connect academics to real life, and prepare ...

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Kansas Wesleyan announced its honor roll recipients for the Fall 2024 semester. Full-time students who accumulated a 3.75 GPA or better during the fall semester were named to the President’s Honor Roll, while those who posted a GPA between 3.25-3.74 this past semester were selected to the Dean’s Honor Roll. Area students on the honor roll include: President’s Honor Roll Katelyn ...

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Kansas firefighting officials are working to improve state wildfire response, prevention and education following the release of a report from Gov. Laura Kelly’s wildfire task force. The 2023 report provided 30 recommendations for responding to and preventing large fires, improving risk forecasts, and enhancing volunteer fire departments. Kansas fire marshal Mark Engholm said the report included a need ...

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A drug trafficking investigation ends with the arrest of a Chapman woman. According to the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office, on Thursday the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit executed a search warrant in relation to a narcotics investigation, at a home in the 2500 Block of Nicholson Road in Chapman. The Chapman Police Department assisted ...

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A Salina manufacturer will close by the end of the year, and will gradually layoff 98 employees. Coperion K-Tron notified officials including the Salina mayor, the Kansas Department of Commerce, and KansasWorks that it is closing its manufacturing facility at 606 N. Front Street by the end of the year. The first eight will be let go ...

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A man is headed to prison for leaving his baby in the I-135 canal in Wichita. Thirty-five-year-old Vincent Perez was sentenced yesterday to 54 months in prison for aggravated child endangerment and aggravated battery. Perez was accused of leaving his child in the canal near Harry and Hydraulic in July 2024. The baby was rescued and taken ...

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More than a dozen people are sickened by carbon monoxide exposure in Reno County. The incident was reported yesterday at StraightLine H-D-D in the 18-hundred-block of East Wasp Road near Yoder. One person was taken to a hospital, and 15 other people were treated at the scene and refused additional medical treatment. Officials say the carbon monoxide ...