ABOVE:Newly crowned 2022 Rodeo Queen Payton Williams takes a victory lap around the arena with her horse.LEFT: Reigning 2021 Rodeo Queen Avery Maxwell, Gardner Edgerton High School student, crowns new 2022 Rodeo Queen Payton Williams, Paola High School student and Princess Zoey Yust at the Johnson County Fair Monday,August 1.Staff photos by Lynne Hermansen .
Lynne Hermansen Lhermansen@cherryroad.com Two recent heated Edgerton topics were addressed again at the Thursday, July 28 city council meeting. Lee Hendricks, city attorney, first focused on council member Josie Stambaugh’s Facebook identity being stolen and how Kansas Statute 7543-17A applied.
Lynne Hermansen Lhermansen@cherryroad.com In two seperate votes Thursday, the Board of County Commissioners approved $15 million in funding to improve road infrastructure and a fire station for hazardous material suppression capability for the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant land. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly announced earlier this month Japan’s Panasonic Corp would be building a multimillion dollar mega-factory to produce electric vehicle batteries on theNorthwest section of land the U.S.
Lynne Hermansen Lhermansen@cherryroad.com Tuesday, July 12 Fire District 1 approved holding a public hearing August 23 as they will be exceeding the revenue neutral rate. The 2023 budget was discussed at a special meeting held June 23.
Lynne Hermansen Lhermansen@cherryroad.com The National Science Foundation awarded $1,487,766 to Johnson County Community College’s STEM Scholars Program. Sharice Davids, Kansas 3rd District State Representative, announced Thursday, July 21 the program will help assist highachieving, low income students with financial need pursuing degrees in STEM.
Lynne Hermansen Lhermansen@cherryroad.com People’s preferred pronouns and the school district’s bathroom usage policies were the topic of an added agenda item at the Monday school board meeting. Jeff Miller, council member, brought forth a proposed general statement of policy to each board member with a request to add it to an already heavily scheduled meeting.
Five Johnson County 4-H Shooting Sports members went to Grand Island, Nebraska this summer, competing in the 4-H Shooting Sports National Championships. Members and teams representing nine disciplines competed against each other as individuals and as partof their state teams. Teams of up to four members from Kansas were picked from top placing individuals at Kansas 4-H State Shooting Sports matches. Individuals may only participate in an individual discipline once at Nationals during their 4-H career. Awards were presented for each of three days of competition and overall discipline winners.
A crowd waited for the special arrival of a helicopter Saturday, July 23 at the Heart of America’s hanger at New Century Airport. A YL-37, a Marine Corps 1961 Sikorsky UH-34D visited from Inola, Oklahoma on its way to the aviation festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
The narrow corridor and truck traffic issues on 199th Street were a hot topic item during public comments at the Thursday, July 21 Johnson County Commission meeting. Residents in rural southwest Johnson County who reside near the Intermodal Logistics Park in Edgerton said they were tired of the semi-trucks tearing up their roads.
The Gardner Lions Club are working with the Gardner Middle schools to put up one of these at each of them. They are looking for groups or individuals that would like to help them fill them for the kids.