6 years ago
COVID-19 clusters continue to appear in Central Kansas, including a new cluster at a long term care facility in Salina. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, in its latest list of COVID-19 exposure locations, has added a long-term care facility in Salina. According to the agency, they have confirmed 21 cases of the virus at ...

6 years ago
The good news, says food safety specialist Karen Blakeslee, is that Americans seem to be getting the message about the importance of washing their hands. But, barely. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released findings of a survey recently indicating that, during the pandemic, U.S. adults were more likely to remember to wash their ...

6 years ago
Saline County Commissioners plan no changes in the current mask mandate. The county commission received a bi-weekly update on the mask ordinance Tuesday. Health Department Chief Financial Officer Loralee Tibbetts provided the bi-weekly review of the COVID-19 situation and review of the mask mandate for Jason Tiller. In the last two weeks, an additional 141 cases have ...

6 years ago
Early voting is underway across much of the country and is proving popular. Advance voting in Saline County began last week via mail. In-person advanced voting began locally on Monday. According to Saline County Clerk Jamie Doss, her office has a signed application from each voter for every ballot by mail. They check the applications against the ...

6 years ago
Two U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists working on the Kansas State University campus are part of a national team that has earned praise for its pioneering work in building sturdy resistance to a highly-virulent strain of stem rust in wheat. The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative awarded its 2020 Gene Stewardship award to a USDA Agricultural Research ...

6 years ago
U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) has helped lead the way to a new, simple 3-digit suicide prevention hotline that has now been signed into law by President Donald Trump. As the technology and the transition behind the scenes is worked out the new 9-8-8 hotline number will not be activated for a couple of years, keeping ...

6 years ago
A group of Salina radio stations are under new ownership. Meridian Media, LLC this month completed the acquisition of, Newsradio 1150 KSAL (KSAL-AM), FM 104.9 (KSAL-FM), Y 93.7 ( KEYZ-FM) and The General  (KABI-AM) from Rocking M Media, LLC. Addisitonally, Meridian has LMA’d 92.7 The Zoo( KZUH-FM) and 95.5 The Rock (KVOB-FM) from Rocking M. Meridian Media, ...

6 years ago
The Irrigation Innovation Consortium, of which Kansas State University is a founding member, is requesting proposals to support collaborative research aiming to accelerate the development and adoption of water and energy-efficient irrigation technologies, tools and practices. Successful research projects will address gaps important to the irrigation sector and/or end-users of irrigation in agriculture, landscape or ...

6 years ago
The Friends of the Salina Public Library are planning a sidewalk sale. According to the organization, the sale will feature grab-bags labeled by genre with a surprise assortment of media. Media types include books on tape, music CDs and movies for all ages. Each bag will be $5. Payment can be made with cash or check. Shoppers ...

6 years ago
A Ellsworth Correctional Facility resident who died Monday, October 19, 2020 had tested positive for COVID-19. This is the sixth resident death related to COVID-19. The resident tested positive on September 26 at which time he was moved to the Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) COVID-19 Management Unit (CMU). Three days later he was transported from LCF ...

6 years ago
There have been a couple of more school related COVID-19 deaths. The Olathe School District is mourning the loss of a staff member due to COVID-19. Administrators at Mission Trail Middle School announced Monday that paraprofessional John Hickman died this past weekend. Officials say Hickman had not been at the school since September 24th and had ...