KDOT’s Cost Share Program applications being accepted
Applications for the fall round of projects for the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Cost Share Program are now being accepted.
Community
Woodston News
Condolences for the Jerry Graf family of Abilene on the death of their seven-year-old granddaughter last week. Linda Melton drove to Norcatur Saturday morning for a baby shower for Rebecca Wentz Hooker.
First Christian Church of Plainville
Here is your challenge this week—Choose your words wisely. This is a challenge that has more difficulty to it today than it would in a “normal” time period. But we are obviously not in a normal time period. So, what does the Bible say about choosing your words?
Benoit graduates from Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center
Randall Benoit with the Rooks County Sheriff’s Department is one of 21 new law enforcement officers who graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) on Aug. 28 at a ceremony held in KLETC’s Integrity Auditorium.
Patrol reports Labor Day weekend holiday activity
The Kansas Highway Patrol has released its Labor Day Weekend Holiday Activity Report. The reporting period for the holiday ran from 6 p.m. on Friday, September 4 through 11:59 p.m. on Monday, September 7, 2020.
Webster Lake lifted from Blue-Green Algae advisory
On Friday last week, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), in conjunction with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), updated its list of public health advisories for Kansas lakes due to blue-green algae.
Labor Day Fish Fry
Shirlee Muir hosted a Labor Day Fish Fry on Sunday, September 6, with her grandson, Kelly Muir, furnishing and frying the fish.
And So They Say
John Walker: “Our grandson, Leighton, is a celebrity. He’s gotten his picture on the front page of the Sentinel two weeks in a row.” Darryl Nichols (when asked how he is doing): “I do a ‘heck’ of a job doing nothing.”.
Tax collections $40.2 million above estimates
Governor Laura Kelly announced that in its second month of Fiscal Year 2021, the State of Kansas continued to see total tax collections performing above estimates. Total tax collections for August were $543.5 million. That is $40.2 million, or 8.0%, more than the estimate. That is 9.3%, or $46.
School Lunch
Week of September 21 Breakfast Monday—Breakfast stick, fruit, juice, milk. Tuesday—Poptarts, fruit, juice, milk.
