4 years ago
A fraternity at the University of Kansas is in trouble after a video went viral over the weekend. The video show a motorist in a confrontation outside a frat house where a large group of members were gathered. The gathering, and incident, came just a day after the University of Kansas Interfraternity Council issue temporarily banned ...

4 years ago
The ability of Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus to fly unmanned aircraft systems beyond visual line of sight is expanding. The campus's Applied Aviation Research Center this month received a new waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration that permits K-State Polytechnic to fly unmanned aircraft beyond visual line of sight, or BVLOS, in all Class G airspace nationwide. Class G ...

4 years ago
The topic of women and voting will be the focus of a virtual event this week at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene. According to the organization, a Lunch & Learn programPolitics on the Platform: Woman Suffrage at the Chautaugua will be presented by guest speaker Sarah Bell with Humanities Kansas. Chautauqua was a ...

4 years ago
An effort to collect masks for students heading back to class at Salina USD 305 schools is continuing. According to the district, over 1,900 masks have been donated . The purpose of the drive is to engage the Salina community to help provide students with a backup face covering. Salina USD 305 will provide one face covering for each ...

4 years ago
Work on a museum at the shuttered St. John's Military School is progressing. Organizers say multiple projects at the St. John's Military School Historical Museum are complete. While this was no small undertaking, they are so excited about the progress. A checklist of completed and/or near completed projects include: painting of all rooms and outside complete flooring ...

4 years ago
Salina USD 305 has recognized its master teacher. According to the district, members of NEA-Salina selected Vickie Marcozzi, Oakdale Elementary art and reading teacher, as the USD 305 Master Teacher. She is one of seven Kansas teachers chosen by Emporia State University as the 2020 Kansas Master Teachers. Vickie earned a bachelor’s degree in 1991 from West ...

4 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan University is cancelling its regularly scheduled fall homecoming and family weekend events and instead pushing them to virtual events and future timelines. According to the school, due to continued uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, Kansas Wesleyan University has cancelled the in-person, publicly accessible portion of its 2020 Homecoming and Family Weekend. No in-person events, ...

4 years ago
USD 305 has recognized its teachers of the year. According to the district, JaNae Basinger, fifth grade teacher at Heusner Elementary School, and Megan Pommer, sixth grade English and reading teacher at South Middle School, have been selected as USD 305 Teachers of the Year. The Salina Board of Education honored them at their regular meeting ...

4 years ago
There are 4 new positive COVID-19 cases in Saline County. According to the Saline County Health Department there have been 427 total cases,  with 76 cases currently active. There are 342 people who have recovered, and a total of 9 deaths. Salina Regional Health Center reports that they have 2 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. According to the Kansas Department ...

4 years ago
A Kansas guide is losing his hunting privileges for three years because he violated the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. According to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister  33-year-old Bryan D. Boxberger of Stafford  pleaded guilty in federal court in Wichita to violating the act. In his plea, Boxberger admitted he acted as a waterfowl guide to a party of 13 hunters ...

4 years ago
Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas is under new leadership. According to the agency, Megan Robl is the new executive director. Robl is a Salina native and a parishioner of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. She graduated from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications and minors in Business and Dance. Robl was previously ...