5 years ago
Exide Technologies has filed paperwork indicating that nearly 1,000 workers could possibly lose their jobs at facilities in Salina and Kansas City, Kansas. The company filed WARN layoff notices with the state late last week. WARN, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, helps ensure advance notice for employees in cases of qualified plant closings and ...

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Family and friends are remembering a long-time Salina radio personality. William Rowson, known to his listeners as "Bill Ray", passed away Sunday evening. Bill's award-winning radio career in Kansas is chronicled by the Kansas Historical Society's Kansaspedia page. Bill "Ray" Rowson attended Liberal High School graduating in 1968. While there Bill helped produce a high school radio ...

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Cool, wet weather did not dampen the Memorial Day spirit in Salina Monday. Though circumstances prohibited a large public gathering at the Saline County War Memorial, small Memorial Day ceremonies were held in Salina cemeteries Light rain which had been falling all morning stopped just before cemeteries began. The first gathering was at Gypsum Hill Cemetery, followed ...

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A woman known for her philanthropy is being remembered. Donna Vanier, who was a big supporter of Kansas State University and St. John's Military School, passed away on Saturday. The scriptures say, "To whom much is given, much will be required." Luke 12:48. To Donna Vanier, this was much more than Biblical council. It was a ...

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Storms which dropped heavy rain and hail slowly moved across Central Kansas Sunday night into early Monday morning. Rainfall in excess of two inches, including as much as 5 inches in some isolated locations, prompted flash flooding across a large area, extending along Interstate 70 from Salina to Russell. Salina received 2.37 inches of rain at the ...

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The next Lunch & Learn program is Thursday, May 28 at noon. The virtual program will begin right at noon, so please sign in early. Understanding Icons of Liberation: Bergen-Belsen and Dachau will be presented by Dr. Shelly Cline, Director of Education & Historian with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. The scenes captured at Dachau and ...

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Kansas Wesleyan University honored multiple seniors with end-of-year awards at the conclusion of the 2019-20 school year. The school also announced that Dr. Meredith Drees, chair of the religion and philosophy department, was the recipient of KWU’s top faculty honor, the Exemplary Teacher Award, for the year. Student award winners included: Cassity Morlan (Kechi, Kan.), who ...

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Severe storms expected to develop Sunday afternoon in Central Kansas, and will progress east into the evening and overnight. According to the National Weather Service, areas of showers and thunderstorms will develop this afternoon and continue into the overnight. Severe thunderstorms with very heavy rain are likely with this activity Ping pong ball sized hail is possible ...

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Friday night was a great night to get out of the house, safely have some fun, and help out in the "Project Salina” effort. It was a flashback to a by gone era, with hundreds of cars cruising Santa Fe. Rocking M Media partnered with Bennington State Bank to host another cruising event. The route  looped from ...

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Saline County is preparing for the 2020 elections. According to the Saline County Clerk’s Office, they are mailing information to all active registered voters in Saline County.  Included in their mailing is important information about voter registration and applications to receive a ballot by mail if voters choose to do so. In the envelope is a letter ...

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In a time when “every little bit helps,” the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism’s (KDWPT) Public Lands Division has found a big way to help those in need. KDWPT’s Public Lands staff donated 2,137 pounds of elk and bison meat to seven food banks across the state. The meat – delivered in five-pound ...