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Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com Olathe Police are seeking two suspects who stole a guitar from a music store on April 12. A police spokesperson said two men entered Spencer’s Music Store at 1717 S. Mur-Len Road at about 2:29 p.m. One of the men distracted sales people while the other placed a guitar in his pants. [...]
Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com Jo Atkinson is on a mission. The artist, who recently opened a studio in downtown Edgerton, plans to recreate a 1930s backdrop that once adorned a stage on the second floor of Edgerton Community Hall. But the 10- by 20-foot canvas backdrop has become severely damaged from years of storage and water [...]
Submitted photo The Spring Hill Chamber of Commerce helped Spring Hill Electronics Celebrate its one-year anniversary on May 4. In addition to hosting First Friday Donuts, the Chamber hosted a long-awaited ribbon cutting for the business.
Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com Planning commissioners questioned whether a planned expansion to Gardner Family Care should include a sidewalk on frontage at Center Street and at Cherokee Street. Commissioners were asked to approve the expansion, which will add 3,551 square feet to the existing 6,732 square foot building, on the consent agenda during the April 24 [...]
Olathe East students will become business leaders for a day at the Orscheln Farm & Home store in Louisburg next week. The students of the Entrepreneurship 2 class won the 2020:Entrepreneurial Odyssey Business Plan Contest to earn the honor. As part of the selection process, the students went on an interactive field trip experience to [...]
Members of the general public are invited to a groundbreaking for the Interstate 35-Homestead Lane interchange on Friday. Construction on the interchange near Edgerton began in March and officials anticipate its completion in fall 2013. The Kansas Department of Transportation project includes construction of a diverging diamond interchange that will eventually provide access to the [...]
Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com Reluctantly, Shirley Bruce VanArsdale will move forward with plans to expand Bruce’s Funeral Home and add more parking. “I’m going to expand and hope you don’t eat us in another 15 years,” she told city and state officials while voicing her concerns about a U.S. 56 Highway and Center Street expansion. The [...]
Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com City officials haven’t really started examining how they’ll fund sewer and water upgrades and new roads related to the recently passed USD 231 bond issue, but it will likely include sewer rate increases and a mill levy increase, Laura Gourley, city finance director, said. “Between now and then a lot could happen,” [...]
Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com Gas station representatives plead their cases for variances from city code during a Gardner Board of Zoning Appeals meeting Tuesday night. The March 6 meeting was the first gathering of the group since October 2010. Three members of the five member board listened to staff presentations, consultants and opposition on a variety [...]
Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com Planning commissioners approved a preliminary plat and a site plan for a QuikTrip convenience store in Gardner as part of the consent agenda on Tuesday night. The store would be built just between the Casey’s General Store and Walgreens Store on East Main Street. As part of the project, the store owners [...]
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