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Jason Hedges, Franklin County Sheriff ’s Office, was one of 21 law enforcement officers graduating from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center. It was the 296th Basic Training Class.

The Dodge City Police Department struggles to keep officers. Stress, in an era where police complain they’ve become pariahs, only makes it harder to hire and keep officers on patrol.

Central Heights High School is welcoming English teacher Amy Marsh to its staff for the 2022-2023 school year. Marsh, who comes to Central Heights from Yates Center, says she is most looking forward to having “a new space, a couple of new classes, and new people — I like an adventure.” .

Kansas brought in $127.6 million more in tax receipts than expected in July, for an estimated total of about $586 million collected. Gov.

In a primary election highlighted by a constitutional amendment asking voters to either uphold or amend a woman’s right to an abortion in the state of Kansas, Republicans and Democrats also had several statewide contested races – some of which unseated incumbents before the general election.

A narrow margin in the race for the Republican nomination for state treasurer triggered a new provision in state law requiring counties to conduct additional audits in especially close contests. As of mid-afternoon Wednesday, Steven Johnson held a slim 771-vote lead over opponent Caryn Tyson.

Local author and recent West Franklin graduate Kale Link will be visiting the Ottawa Library on August 10 at 1 pm to discuss his debut novel, Gone to the Great Dying: A Prehistoric Odyssey. Link, who will be attending Fort Hays State University in the fall to study paleontology, has been interested in dinosaurs and the prehistoric world since childhood.