7 years ago
Salina City Commissioners will discuss special assessments during a special study session later this week. According to the city, commissioners are scheduled to convene for a special study session on Friday. It will begin at 8:00 in the morning the City-County Building, Room 107. Special assessments are used to finance improvements to be paid for by property ...

7 years ago
A grant writing workshop is planned in Salina. Salina Arts & Humanities and the SPARK Artist Resource Exchange announces a free Grant Writing workshop on Thursday, September 28. The workshop is open to the public yet targeted to artists or cultural organizations based in Saline County that may be eligible for and interested in Horizons Grant ...

7 years ago
A new website designed to educate about economic development opportunities in Salina  is now online.  The Salina Community Economic Development Organization has launched a new website and logo, which can be seen at https://salinaedo.org/ . The purpose of the organization is to help grow jobs and investment in Salina and Saline County. According the organization’s ...

7 years ago
Three months into his first interim superintendent contract at USD 305, the Board asks Dr. Hardy to lead the District for a second year. Following an executive session at the September 26 board meeting, board members voted to offer an interim superintendent contract for the 2018-2019 school year. Nedra Elbl, board president, cited Hardy’s 36 years of ...

7 years ago
Saline County Commissioners support an effort to attract a Tyson Foods chicken plant to North Central Kansas. Last week Tyson put plans on hold for "Project Sunset, a planned new facility in the eastern Kansas community of Tonganoxie.  The decision came after the Leavenworth County Commission on Monday reversed its support of issuing $500 million in ...

7 years ago
Saline County Commissioners unanimously agreed to create a new county department for the Saline County Commission on Aging. According to Chairman Monte Shadwick, the COA’s Board of Directors will remain intact and can focus on providing services to their members. Commissioner Jim Weese, who attends the monthly COA meetings, said that in recent months, County Administrator ...

7 years ago
A Saline County bridge project has abruptly came to a stop. In April, the Saline County  Commission accepted a bid from L&M Contractors to replace a bridge on County Club Road, immediately east of Gypsum Valley Road.  On Monday, L&M crew and subcontractor Johnson Farms were ready to start work; they had brought in a construction ...

7 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a known suspect who stole her boyfriend's SUV after a heated argument inside a home in the 500 block of S. 12th Street. Police say the 29-year-old man and the suspect share a home and custody of their 1-year-old son and had been arguing on and off for the past several ...

7 years ago
An Abilene man survives a close encounter with a deer that hit his motorcycle Saturday evening. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that 49-year-old Jeff Oard was riding a 1994 Harley Davidson Road King motorcycle eastbound on E. Magnolia around 7:30pm Saturday when a deer ran out of the ditch and struck him broadside. The ...

7 years ago
A mock space capsule has landed in Kansas State University's Ice Hall. In this built-to-scale model of the Orion spacecraft, "astronauts" practice emergency escape maneuvers while a university kinesiology team studies their health and fitness levels. It's all part of NASA's plan for further human exploration of the solar system, from a Mars mission to a ...

7 years ago
The fall season continues to roll on for the Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes. And so does the Kansas Wesleyan Coaches Show, which takes place every Monday from 6 to 7 pm, live at Burger Theory inside the Holiday Inn just past Lowe’s. Come in for the $6.99 Build-Your-Own-Burger Special that includes a side. Various members of the ...