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Month: August 2017

Madison Street home avoids demolition with steady improvements

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Once unsafe house at 1217 Madison Street is receiving repairs.

A lot of progress has been made on improvements at 1217 Madison Street in Great Bend. The once unsafe and dangerous structure with fire damage had its public hearing last week to determine if the City of Great Bend would raze the building.

At the June 5 Great Bend City Council meeting, Code Enforcement Officer Stuart Baker mentioned insurance adjusters thought the house was close to being totaled out. At the public hearing last Monday, Baker says the owner has made a lot of progress to repair the house.

Stuart Baker Audio


The Madison home endured a fire on February 26, 2017 that severely damaged the front of the house and the owner reported termite damage. Baker says the interior has since been gutted with a new electrical service to be installed and more renovations to come.

The council voted to allow the owner to keep making improvements after showing intentions to make the property safe.

Groups in Kansas gather for solidarity after violence in Virginia

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Former Kansas congressional candidate James Thompson addresses the rally Sunday in Wichita-image courtesy LaWanda DeShazer via Wichita NAACP

SEDGWICK COUNTY – A small crowd attended a rally at the Old Wichita Courthouse Sunday evening in Solidarity with those injured or killed in the Charlottesville protests.

The Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas invitation indicated the rally was an effort to stand up to racism, fascism and hate and to support equality and human rights.

Former Kansas democrat congressional candidate James Thompson and Larry Burks, president of the Wichita chapter of the NAACP addressed the crowd.  Groups also held rallies in Topeka and Pittsburg Kansas, according to a social media report.

Protesters decrying hatred and racism say they felt compelled to gather and counteract the white supremacist rally that spiraled into deadly violence in Virginia.

The gatherings Sunday spanned from anti-fascist protests in San Francisco to a march to President Donald Trump’s home in New York.

In Seattle, police arrested three men as Trump supporters and counter-protesters converged downtown.

In Denver, several hundred demonstrators gathered beneath a statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in City Park and marched about 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) to the state Capitol.

In New York, protesters marched from several locations in Manhattan to Trump Tower, demanding the president denounce white nationalist groups.

A crowd gathered for a vigil in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the street where a day earlier a car rammed into a peaceful crowd of anti-white-nationalist protesters, killing one.

– The AP contributed to this report

Mahomes promoted to second string quarterback

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ST. JOSEPH, MO (AP) – Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid announced Sunday that rookie quarterback Patrick Mahomes will now be the backup quarterback.

Reid said the move was not because of the performance of quarterback Tyler Bray, who was starting quarterback Alex Smith’s backup on Friday.

“We are going to give Patrick a chance to work with the twos like Tyler (Bray) has had here the last couple of weeks,” Reid said. “It is not because of Tyler’s performance in the game. I think he actually played very well and Patrick did a nice job too.”

In Friday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers, Mahomes finished 7-of-9 for 49 yards and a touchdown.

Reid said all three of his quarterbacks performed well in the Chiefs’ 27-17 loss to the 49ers.

“It gives him an opportunity to step up and work with that second group and see what he can do there,” Reid said. “While I am on quarterbacks, Alex (Smith) like I mentioned yesterday, did a nice job. All positive at that position.”

Merrifield powers Royals past White Sox 14-6

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CHICAGO (AP) – Whit Merrifield hit a three-run homer and drove in a career-high five runs, and the Kansas City Royals pounded the Chicago White Sox 14-6 on Sunday.

Drew Butera had four of Kansas City’s 16 hits, helping the Royals climb back over .500 at 59-58. Jorge Bonifacio hit his 15th homer, and Lorenzo Cain had two hits and two RBIs.

Jason Vargas (14-6) worked six innings to match his career high for wins set in 2012 with Seattle. The left-hander allowed three runs and six hits, struck out seven and walked two.

Tim Anderson hit a two-run homer for AL-worst Chicago, and Avisail Garcia added a two-run double.

Monday AP Sports Update

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ST. LOUIS (AP) – R.A. Dickey held St. Louis to one run in seven innings, Brandon Phillips hit a two-run homer and the Atlanta Braves stopped the Cardinals’ season-high, eight-game winning streak with a 6-3 victory Sunday. Atlanta stopped a five-game losing streak, beat the Cardinals for the first time in six meetings this year.

CHICAGO (AP) – Whit Merrifield hit a three-run homer and drove in a career-high five runs, and the Kansas City Royals pounded the Chicago White Sox 14-6 Sunday. Drew Butera had four of Kansas City’s 16 hits, helping the Royals climb back over .500 at 59-58. Jorge Bonifacio hit his 15th homer, and Lorenzo Cain had two hits and two RBIs.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) – Andy Reid’s offense took on a distinct dink-and-dunk quality last season. The Chiefs coach appears intent to change that in the preseason, airing it out in the opener with the promise of more aggressive play-calling to come

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) – Kansas State coach Bill Snyder is back for another season, despite a cancer scare earlier this year. The 77-year-old coach believes he has a team capable of contending for a Big 12 title and even a national championship, and no amount of chemotherapy was going to keep him from leading the Wildcats for the 26th year.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska authorities are reminding hunters that state recreation areas are closed to hunting until September 5th. Several hunting seasons, including one for archery deer, open September 1st, and the early teal season opens September 2nd.

Finding developers for a Great Bend truck stop remains challenging

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As trucks continue to fill up the north portion of the parking lot at Walmart in Great Bend, the thoughts of creating a proper truck stop are revisited over and over. Although there appears to be a need, the City of Great Bend is finding out very few investors are interested in financing a truck stop.

Great Bend Chamber of Commerce CEO Jan Peters worked with two different companies but eventually neither company was interested in building a truck stop. Peters says she has lined up another potential investor with hopes of a different outcome.

Jan Peters Audio


The City of Great Bend and the Great Bend City Council develop yearly goals they would like to see accomplished or received more attention. Finding investors or developers interested in building a truck stop has been mentioned as a goal for the city multiple times.

Teen sentenced for sex attack on Kan. woman in her apartment

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita, Kansas, man has been ordered to spend more than 13 years in prison in connection with the sexual attack on a woman last year.

Nineteen-year-old Amahri Huston was sentenced Friday in Sedgwick County, where he pleaded guilty in June.

District Attorney Marc Bennett says Huston was armed with a knife last Nov. 20 when he forced his way in to a 37-year-old woman’s apartment in Maize and attacked her.

Huston was arrested two days later, and the knife used to threaten the victim was found in his car.

Kansas home uninhabitable after fire

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Saturday night fire -photo courtesy Hutchinson Fire Dept.

RENO COUNTY — Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of fire Saturday in Hutchinson.Just after 11p.m. crews responded to the fire at 1701 E. 3rd Street, according to a media release.

On arrival, crews encountered heavy smoke coming from the eaves of the single-story makeshift duplex. Fire crews located a very hot smoldering fire that did considerable damage to the interior of the structure. No one was home at the time of the fire and the home is deemed uninhabitable.

No injuries were reported from the fire.

Almanac makes winter weather prediction

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2018 winter forecast -image courtesy Farmers’ Almanac

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Folks rooting for a snowy winter are going to like the forecast from the Farmers’ Almanac, in the Northeast, at least.

The Maine-based almanac that goes on sale this week is predicting a snowy winter from Maryland to Maine with five coastal storms to bring misery to the region.

The publication, now in its 200th year, predicts cold weather for central regions, wet weather for the southeastern states, and dry weather for the nation’s western third.

The almanac editors aren’t afraid to go out on a limb using a secret formula that dates to 1818.

But that doesn’t mean they’re always right. The publication was off the mark last winter when heavy snow failed to materialize in the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic states were milder than anticipated.

 

No age limit: 16-year-old is running for Kansas governor

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Jack Bergeson courtesy photo

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas teenager who won’t even be old enough to vote is running for governor.

Jack Bergerson has officially filed to run as a Democrat for governor of Kansas in the 2018 election. The Wichita teen says he wants to give Kansas voters a chance to try something that’s never been tried before.

The Kansas City Star reports that Bryan Caskey, director of elections for the secretary of state’s office, says Kansas doesn’t set any qualifications to run for governor such as age, residency or experience.

One of Bergerson’s 17-year-old classmates, Alexander Cline, will run to be his lieutenant governor. Cline will be old enough to vote by the election, unlike his running mate.

Bergerson’s announcement Monday brought national attention, including an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel

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