Great Bend Post

L&M Contractors plans to close Southeast 60 Avenue at the Arkansas River bridge, east of Great Bend, on Tuesday, July 5 in order to begin replacing the deteriorated expansion joint. L&M was awarded the contract by Barton County after submitting the low bid of $39,487.50. Traffic will not be allowed...

Dream Cartographers, a recently completed downtown mural that included community involvement, will be dedicated Saturday. The mural, which serves as a backdrop to the new downtown stage at N. Santa Fe Avenue and W. Ash Street, is scheduled to be dedicated at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, according to information from Salina Arts & Humanities. The dedication will include remarks by the artist, Dave Loewenstein, and Salina Arts & Humanities staff. Light refreshments will be served.

BUTLER COUNTY – The Butler County Sheriff’s Office requested that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) issue a statewide Silver Alert for a missing Towanda man. Joseph Moody Hayes left his home in Towanda, Kansas on Monday, June 20, en route to Anniston, Alabama to visit family. He never made it. Hayes was driving a 2014 Black Dodge Ram 1500 bearing Kansas tag 576HZW.

Plant analysis is an excellent in-season “quality control” tool. It can be especially valuable for managing secondary and micronutrients that do not have high-quality, reliable soil tests available, and for providing insight into how efficiently you are using applied nutrients. Plant analysis can be used by Kansas farmers...

Watch out when selling big-ticket items on Facebook Marketplace. Scammers have a new trick up their sleeves! According to BBB Scam Tracker reports, be wary of phony buyers who “need” you to upgrade your Zelle or another digital wallet app to accept money from them. How the scam...

MENDON, Missouri (AP) — Authorities say 4th person has died following Missouri Amtrak derailment, total injured rises to 150. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board were in Missouri Tuesday trying to determine how an Amtrak train carrying more than 200 people slammed into a dump truck. Amtrak’s Southwest...

The Shafer Art Gallery’s upcoming exhibit will feature works from emerging artist Rebel Mahieu & the late Steve Dudek, which will be kicked off with an opening reception July 8 at 6:30 p.m. Attendees will enjoy refreshments as well an artist talk from Mahieu. Shafer Gallery Director Dave Barnes...

PHILLIPS COUNTY—A Kansas teen was injured in an accident just before 7:30a.m. Tuesday in Phillips County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Jeep Compass driven by Kyla Leighanne Kenney, 17, Phillipsburg, was southbound on U.S. 183 three miles north of Phillipsburg. The Jeep crossed center line and struck...

KANSAS CITY (AP) — “Woman’s Choice,” the sign proclaims in bold pink letters. But despite promising abortion information and free pregnancy testing, the facility in Charleston, West Virginia, is designed to steer women facing an unwanted pregnancy away from choosing an abortion. That will become much...

Governor Laura Kelly today announced appointments to the following state boards and committees. Purpose: To license and regulate certified public accountants (CPA’s). The Board of Accountancy is a regulatory body authorized to carry out the laws and administrative regulations governing CPA’s. The board is disciplinary and has the authority to conduct investigations.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee held a surprise hearing Tuesday delivering alarming new testimony about Donald Trump’s angry, defiant and vulgar actions as he ignored repeated warnings against summoning the mob to the Capitol and then refused to intervene to stop the deadly violence as rioters laid siege.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Fifty people died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer in the sweltering Texas heat, one of the worst tragedies to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico to the U.S. More than a dozen people had been taken to hospitals, including four children.

This is day 11 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas Wheat Commission, Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and the Kansas Grain and Feed Association. The Kansas wheat harvest is officially over halfway done, well ahead of the normal harvest pace, according to the USDA...

The U.S. child care industry is at the point of market failure, a representative of Kansas' Child Care Aware program told a group of Hays Chamber members Friday. Child care costs more to provide than families can afford to pay, said Jennifer Burgardt, community outreach and engagement coordinator at Child Care Aware of Kansas.

SHAWNEE COUNTY – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Friday in Topeka. Officials continue working to ID the man who died. On Monday, an autopsy was performed on the man, according to the KBI. At approximately 9 a.m. on Friday, officers from...

Tuesday, June 28 at 4 p.m. 5. MONITORING REPORT – END 7: STRATEGIC PLANNING/STRATEGIC PLANNING UPDATE. Todd Mobray, Director of Institutional Effectiveness will facilitate this report. 6. CNH EXPANSION. Kathy Kottas, Dean of Workforce Training & Community Education will present for Board consideration. 7. EMPLOYEE UPDATES. Mark Dean, Vice...

Barton County Sheriff’s Office Incident Log (6/27) At 1:01 a.m. a chase was reported at NW K-96 Highway & 17th Street. At 9:32 a.m. a report of cattle out was made at NE 110 Avenue & NE 180 Road. Non-Injury Accident. At 4:18 p.m. an accident was reported at...

BOOKED: Cassandra Maupin on Barton County District Court case for possession of methamphetamine, paraphernalia, no driver’s license and no drug tax stamp, bond set at $10,000 C/S. BOOKED: Mark Anthony Caton on Barton County District Court case for possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia, no drug tax stamp, bond...

SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting that sent two victims to the hospital. At approximately 3:47 a.m. this morning, officers were dispatched to the Quick Trip located in the 2800 block of South Hydraulic for a shooting call, according to Officer Juan Rebolledo. At the scene,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure. Such social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in...