INDEPENDENCE — Radio Disney AM 1190 will bring music, games and prizes to Riverside Park’s annual Opening Day on Saturday, April 21.
“Experience the Safety Zone” is the name of Disney’s program, which will be from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
More upgrades to the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad switch yard north of Cherryvale will be coming in the near future, the Kansas Department of Transportation has announced.
INDEPENDENCE — Independence resident Marlene Bannwarth has ample reason to add pages to her family photo album after an Easter holiday experience on the grounds of the White House in Washington, D.C.
Bannwarth joined her daughter, Ali Zayas, an attorney in Washington, D.C., and granddaughters Katie Etheredge, age 9, of Wichita and Gretchen Bannwarth, age 7, of Lawrence, Kan., to the White House on Monday, April 9 for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
CHERRYVALE — Cherryvale’s newest restaurant, Subway, will open its doors beginning next Thursday, April 26 at 1036 W. Main.
The store was constructed as an addition to the Jump Start convenience store. Subway and Jump Start are owned by Western Plains Operations.
CANEY — All Caney water customers will pay $2 per month more on their water bills beginning in June under a water rate adjustment approved by city councilors Monday.
The water rate adjustment was necessary due to the increased costs of operating the City of Caney’s new water treatment plant, said Mayor Dale McBride at Monday’s monthly city council meeting. McBride said the City’s water fund, which uses funds derived from water bills, has had to be subsidized in recent months by other City funds, which, in turn, causes other projects to not be fully funded or delayed to a later date.
CHERRYVALE — A Cherryvale teenager was critically injured Sunday night after the four-wheel all-terrain vehicle he was driving collided with a train on a rural road northwest of Cherryvale.
The collision happened after 6:30 p.m. at a South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad crossing near county roads 5800 and 5175, or about four miles northwest of Cherryvale.
Caney city voters gave overwhelming support to renewing a 3/4-percent sales tax for street, curbs and gutter improvements in Tuesday’s election.
One hundred nineteen votes were cast in favor of the sales tax renewal, which was 71 percent of the total votes cast. No votes numbered 49, or about 29 percent of the total vote.
Nathan Byrd will be the newest member to the Caney City Council, based on a narrow decision in Tuesday’s election.
Byrd defeated Michael Jones by a vote count of 15-14 to claim the ward 1 seat that was held by Erin Munday. Munday chose not to seek re-election.
Byrd will take his oath of office at the council’s next meeting on April 16.
Also in Tuesday’s election, incumbents Josh Eaton, Dan Vernon and April Coots were re-elected to their seats. Eaton was uncontested in the ward 2 council race while Vernon defeated Lesa Clubine, 38-15, in the ward 3 race.
In ward 4, April Coots survived challenges by Zoe Wahl and Carol McClure. Coots received 33 votes while Wahl picked up 11 votes. McClure had 10 votes in that ward.
Independence city voters cast their support for one-cent sales tax increase to be divided into four areas: handicapped accessibility compliance; debt payment and mill levy support; improvement to city facilities, including zoo and park; and street and sidewalk improvements.
Yes votes were 891 (79 percent) while no votes were 231 (21 percent).
One Humboldt man was killed and four other people were injured in a head-on collision on U.S. 169 highway near the intersection of county road 3800 north of Liberty early Saturday evening, March 31.
