5 years ago
Walmart and The Salina Salvation Army are joining forces to help provide school supplies to children getting ready to head back to school. The “Stuff the Bus” campaign will be held at Walmart locations throughout the country, including in Salina, this coming Saturday, August 3rd. The Salina event is one of nearly 3,000 similar events taking ...

5 years ago
Free rides will be available to an event where free school supplies will be distributed. Salina CityGo, will be providing free rides to families attending the Back to School Fair this coming Friday, August 2nd. Passengers will just need to tell the driver that they are going to the Back to School Fair.  The best stop to ...

5 years ago
The Salina Public Library's summer reading program met and surpassed its goal. According to the library, the Salina community read 27,728 books between May 24 and July 25, exceeding the goal of 25,000. “No matter what genre you read, or whether you prefer paper or e-books or audiobooks, reading enriches our lives, improves children’s learning outcomes and ...

5 years ago
A Christmas concert has been scheduled in Salina. According to the Tony's Pizza Events Center, Home Free will perform a Christmas show on December 18th. Home Free’s Dive Bar Christmas Tour will be an evening of mixed upbeat Nashville-dipped pop hits, country and western standards, and Christmas classics with incredible harmony and quick-witted humor. Dive Bar Saints is ...

5 years ago
The City of Salina is seeking a few good men, women, and youth willing to serve in various volunteer positions. A couple months ago, the City of Salina put out a call for volunteers to serve on citizen boards with a deadline of August 7th. With that deadline fast approaching, they are still short on expression ...

5 years ago
The Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court is stepping down. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss will retire from the Supreme Court effective December 17, 2019. According to the court Nuss, a Salina native, has served as a justice on the Supreme Court since 2002 and as chief justice since 2010. "I consider my service on the Supreme ...

5 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has reversed a court of appeals decision in a Saline County case. The case stems from the arrest of a woman when police found drugs in her purse after they found her acting suspiciously. According to the court, a Salina police officer stopped Erica Tatro while she was walking in the middle of ...

5 years ago
Governor Laura Kelly made 28 appointments to the Kansas Complete Count Committee created through an executive order. The committee’s duty is to coordinate efforts to promote and advertise the 2020 Census. Committee members will coordinate responses to questions about the Census, provide available resources on hard-to-count populations and help ensure the highest participation rate possible. “It is ...

5 years ago
Salina Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man caught on camera using counterfeit money. The case is this week’s Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. On July 19th, 2019, between 12:50-12:54 PM, a man entered the Little Caesars, 645 E Crawford, ordered food, and paid using a counterfeit bill. He is described ...

5 years ago
Butch Mayginnes is a rich man, sitting next to a trailer stacked with enough scrap metal to build a cherry Model-A Ford. "There are people that will walk by and say, 'that's a pile of junk,'" he said with a laugh. "And there's other people that would walk by and say, 'man I need that,'" Mayginnes ...

5 years ago
Violent crime is on the rise in the Sunflower State. This according to state officials, who say that figure rose more than five-percent last year. According to a report released by the state yesterday, more than 12-thousand violent crimes encompassing murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and battery were reported in Kansas in 2018. KBI officials say ...