6 years ago
The second in a series of Legislative Issue Meetings with the Saline County Legislative Delegation will be held this Saturday. The event is 8:30-10am, at the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce Visit Salina Annex, 120 W. Ash. The meetings are designed to keep citizens informed on state legislative activity. Senator Randall Hardy, and Representatives Steven Johnson, ...

6 years ago
The streets of Downtown Salina will be filled with revelers dressed in green this St. Patrick's Day weekend. Salina will celebrate again this year with a downtown pub crawl. The sixth annual Salina Downtown Inc.’s St. Paddy’s Day Pub Crawl is this Saturday from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. This event has eight participating downtown bars and restaurants.  ...

6 years ago
A Kansas author will host a book signing event in Salina. According to the Salina Public Library, Patricia Pettit Hill of Hays will sign copies of her young adult fantasy novel “Ishi, Deshi and Hank: Discovering Bigfoot” from 1-3 p.m. on March 16th. Ishi, Deshi, and Hank first meet at a campground in Michigan. Though from ...

6 years ago
Scott Cason, currently the chief marketing officer at Texas A&M University-Commerce, was announced today by Fort Hays State University President Tisa Mason as the new chief communications officer for the university. President Mason said Cason would take up his post at the end of this month. “I am immensely grateful to President Mason and the university community ...

6 years ago
A couple of Salina teams stepped up to the plate to help a Kansas baseball league which lost nearly all of its equipment to thieves. Last month equipment bags and approximately 175 – 200 baseball bats and were stolen from League 42 out of a storage area at McAdams Park, Wichita. An equipment drive in Wichita restocked ...

6 years ago
The Saline County Community Corrections and Drug Court (CC/DC) Team’s work with the Salina Adult Education Center (SAEC) has made a difference in clients’ lives and left quite an impression on adult education staff. So much, in fact, that Kelly Mobray, SAEC director, nominated the Saline County CC/DC team for the KAEA Humanitarian Award. She explains, ...

6 years ago
A Salina man who was the subject of a statewide Silver Alert was found Safe. According to his family, 79-year-old Larry Triplett was found in Russell County, and is safe. Triplett, who, suffers from diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease, had been missing since leaving home in Salina Friday night. --- ORIGINAL: Authorities are asking for the public's help in locating a ...

6 years ago
Three new police officers are ready to hit the streets of Salina. According to the Salina Police Department, three officers graduated from the 14-week Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center on Friday. Officers  Hays, Keiswetter, and Wolf all graduated. The officers will have a 2-week Post Academy at the Salina Police Department and then on to the 16-week ...

6 years ago
A Southwest Kansas College has become the 20th member of a group independent schools of higher learning in Kansas. Barclay College, located in Haviland, has joined the Kansas Independent College Association as their 20th member institution. The organization of colleges founded in 1970, is a not-for-profit partnership that works to support, develop, and enhance the ...

6 years ago
Fort Hays State University’s Kansas Wetlands Education Center will be hosting free STEM activities each day over spring break for visitors of all ages. “Bugapalooza” will be Saturday, March 9, and Wednesday, March 13. Alonso Barragan-Martinez, FHSU graduate student, will help individuals explore what makes the bugs around the wetlands center so durable and why they ...

6 years ago
Saline County Sheriff's deputies will be out in force late Friday night specifically looking for drunk drivers. According to Undersheriff Brent Melander, Friday into the early morning hours of Saturday deputies will work a DUI saturation patrol in an effort to decrease the amount of intoxicated drivers on the streets. Five additional patrol units will be looking ...