School board OKs $166,302 for bus
The Smoky Valley Board of Education on July 23 approved $166,302 for a new school bus but hopes that a grant will cover a quarter of the cost when the vehicle is delivered sometime in the 2026-27 school year.
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Library reopens after addition, remodel
The Lindsborg Community Library reopened with a larger space July 24 after months of construction and remodeling and a week of volunteers helping to move shelves and books. Two new study rooms and the heritage room, which was relocated from the back to the front of the library, as well as added space for staff, remain closed until furnishings arrive and Swedish paraphernalia is cataloged.
State will give $800,000 to fix K-4 in town
Scott Bontz News-Record The Kansas Department of Transportation has budgeted $800,000 to patch Highway 4 – Harrison Street – between Swensson and Lincoln. The first… Login to continue reading Login…
Valkyrie-Dala founder faced earlier theft, sexual battery charges
The man who established Valkyrie-Dala Fitness in downtown Lindsborg after being given probation in 2017 for embezzlement of more than $30,000 from merchants in Albuquerque, N.M., had an earlier record of theft and sexual battery in Utah. David Anthony Rendon, 65, is now being sued, for lack of full payment, by the couple who sold him the building for the gym at 115 N.
U.S. may dry up state wildfire fighting
Most of the Kansas Forest Service’s budget for this fiscal year might simply not show up. That’s the fear — with just 2.5 months left in the federal fiscal year — as the Trump administration continues to withhold federal money that states and tribal governments use for forestry and for preventing and combatting wildfires.
5 news shows at Sandzén
Five exhibitions open at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery on Sunday and continue through Oct. 19: “Practical In Her Art: Women Artists of the 1930s”; paintings by Karen Matheis of Lawrence, prints by Juana Estrada Hernandez of Providence, R.I.; mixed media works by Harley Elliott of Salina; and Swedish art from the Sandzén’s permanent collection.
Exhibit of John Whitfield art
A retrospective exhibition of art by John Whitfield will run Aug. 1-31 at the Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center, 114½ S.
Other customers foot bill for AI
Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in artificial intelligence that has contributed to a growth in data centers and a surge in power usage, recent research suggests.
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Bethany revives sideline cheers, hires coach Bethany College will bring back the sideline cheer team to football and basketball games. It hired Patricia Smith to coach and lead the cheering.