7 years ago
A Salina elementary school teacher has been honored. According to USD 305, members of NEA-Salina selected Carolynn Phalen as the USD 305 Master Teacher. She is also one of seven Kansas teachers chosen by Emporia State University as the 2019 Kansas Master Teachers. Phalen has taught for 15 years at Salina USD 305, and currently teaches first ...

7 years ago
Salina City Commissioners learned the City’s actual revenues for the 2018 general fund were $2,126,653 less than what was budgeted. Actual expenditures were less than budgeted by $773,624. This left an overall 2018 budget shortfall of $1,353,029. The City’s 2018 budget authorized expenditures of $100,115,914 in all funds. Within the general fund, the 2018 budget authorized ...

7 years ago
One hundred years after the U.S. Constitution was amended, Kansas Wesleyan University Director of Bands Carl Rowles wants to celebrate. The assistant professor of music has embarked on an ambitious project to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Suffragette movement that gave women in America the right to vote, also known as the 19th Amendment to ...

7 years ago
A new ultrasensitive diagnostic device invented by researchers at the University of Kansas, The University of Kansas Cancer Center and KU Medical Center could allow doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma, leading to timelier interventions and better outcomes for patients. The “lab-on-a-chip” for “liquid biopsy” analysis, reported today in Nature ...

7 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a case of vandalism after someone shattered a glass door on a downtown business. Police say sometime Monday evening around 10:37pm, someone used an unknown object to break the glass on a door at Chapman Design located at 1212 S. Santa Fe. A phone call from an eyewitness described the a person who ...

7 years ago
Salina Police are warning the public not to get caught up in scams that are coursing through social media after a man was duped out of $1,400. Detective Sergeant David Villanueva tells KSAL News that the 38-year-old victim was communicating with someone on Twitter he thought was a woman in New York City named Kira. The scammer ...

7 years ago
A Salina man was taken into custody after the woman he beat went to the hospital. Police Detective Sergeant David Villanueva tells KSAL News that officers arrested 39-year-old Walter Bell after he allegedly broke a woman's cheek bone with a punch. Police say Bell went to the victim's home in the 400 block of Baker Street last ...

7 years ago
A mix of music and art highlights this week’s Friday Night Live events in downtown Salina. According to Salina Arts and Humanities, First Friday programming kicks off at 4 p.m. this Friday with events including a visual-arts reception for “Places and Spaces,” a showcase of Marla Ames Kuiper at the Salina Public Library (301 W. Elm ...

7 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan University music student Rebekah Hillis won first prize last week at the 2019 Kansas American String Teachers Association Solo Competition on Violin in Wichita. According to KWU, Hillis won the opportunity to perform at the Kansas Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop Luncheon in Wichita. She performed the 1st Mov of the Lalo Symphonie Espagnole. The ...

7 years ago
The Salina Public Library is now making past issues of magazines available for library cardholders to check out. According to the library, they are making most last year and current year magazines available for check out. With their library card, patrons can check out up to six magazines for 14 days. There are 129 titles available, including ...

7 years ago
Utility customers in Kansas will be getting a little bonus. In an order issued Monday afternoon, the Kansas Corporation Commission instructed Kansas Gas Service to return just over $17.9 million in tax savings to its customers. According to the KCC, for residential customers, the return will mean a one-time bill credit of $22.78. The savings resulted when ...