The Franklin County Commission met for its regular weekly meeting at the Franklin County Annex on Wednesday. Here are the three most important items commissioners discussed during that time, in no particular order:
A Topeka man who faces federal charges for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
Race participants raised over $6,000 in honor of Kevin Clark, a beloved member of the Pomona Lake community who passed away from cancer several years ago. Clark was somewhat of a celebrity at the Pomona Lake Marina.
A Kansas man who threatened a Black male juvenile living in Paola with a knife because of his race will serve 27 months in federal prison and 18 months on supervised release for the hate crime. Court documents say Colton Donner, 27, in September 2019 noticed a Black man walking on the sidewalk while driving through a residential area of Paola.
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a healthy 77-year-old male. I’m 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weigh 145 pounds, with difficult-to-control high blood pressure. For many years I had a blood pressure reading around 140/80 with no medicines. Last year I had a very severe headache, and I thought it might be a stroke or TIA. I had a reading over 180/100 and was diagnosed with high blood pressure.
Are We There Yet? I’m very impatient. Any trip I take, whether across town or around the world I continually try to figure out how to get there faster.
Dear Amy: My father died three weeks ago. After his death, I talked with a close friend whose father died in 2007.
Franklin County has been named one of three Kansas counties selected to join NetWork Kansas’ Entrepreneurship Community Partnership, or E-Community, for 2022. As an E-Community member, Franklin County will receive gap financing funds for local businesses and will receive funding for, and be able to participate in, NetWork Kansas programs such as bootcanps created for rural businesses to expand their growth.
The Franklin County Development Council (FCDC) partnered with Wichita State University’s W. Frank Barton School of business to conduct a labor study for Franklin County and surrounding areas. Findings from the study, which was the first of its kind conducted in the area since 2015, were published on June 24.