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Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com The Edgerton City Council approved a 3 percent cost of living pay increase for city employees on Feb. 9. The pay increase is retroactive to January, 2011. “During this economic downturn, local government employees struggle as everyone else does with the ever increasing costs of housing, food and transportation,” City Administrator Beth [...]
Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com Johnson County will likely add three new representatives to the Kansas House of Representatives next year. A redistricting proposal, which easily passed a House committee on Monday, would separate Gardner, Edgerton and Spring Hill into three separate districts. Currently, all three communities are part of the 43rd District and are represented by [...]
Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office has a new robot that can be used to assess armed standoff situations and potentially save lives. Capt. Shane Pennington recently demonstrated the robot for the Edgerton City Council. The robot is operated by a remote control and has two cameras that deliver video to a monitor [...]
When Edgerton residents donated and built the Bank of Knowledge, a library, participants who gave nearly $200,000 to the effort to put a library in the community thought generations would be able to enjoy it. However, a proposal before the Johnson County Library board could shutter the 11-year-old Edgerton Bank of Knowledge. Board members will [...]
Submitted photo Pictured are members of the Gardner Edgerton High School Winter Royalty Court. Queen candidates include Morgan Buie, Becca Clark-Hargreaves, Molly Porter, Kiley Reindl-Boden, and Taylor Zimmerman. King candidates are Brent Bovitz, Austin Keehn, Peyton Kuhn, Tanner Webb, and Marcus Williams. The king and queen will be announced at half time during the GEHS [...]
USD 231 voters approved a $72 million bond issue on Tuesday. More than 5,000 voters returned ballots in the mail-in election. The Johnson County Election Office sent 12,883 ballots to all of the registered voters in the school district. With 5,219 ballots counted, approximately 53 percent, or 2,795 people, cast votes to approve the bond [...]
Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com Two persons were killed in a rollover accident on I-35 near the Moonlight Road overpass. The accident happened about 1:45 a.m. on Jan. 31. According to Master Deputy Rick Howell of the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, a passenger vehicle was southbound when it overturned. Killed were Jennifer Diane Curbow, 32, of Edgerton, [...]
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