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Northcutt will work for KU
Kristi Northcutt will leave her job as Lindsborg city administrator to direct the University of Kansas Public Management Center.
Assaria City Council minutes Feb. 10
The Assaria City Council meeting for Feb. 10, 2025, was held at the City Building at 7 p.m.

School board to review superintendent candidates
The Smoky Valley Public Schools board will meet at 5 p.m. Monday evening to screen candidates for the job of superintendent. The meeting will be… Login to continue reading Login…
McPherson foundation names new president
The McPherson County Community Foundation Board of Directors picked Chief Financial Officer Michelle Huddle to replace President/CEO Becky Goss, who will retire on Dec. 31.… Login to continue reading Login…
Northcutt is leaving to work for KU
Kristi Northcutt will leave her job as Lindsborg city administrator to direct the University of Kansas Public Management Center. She announced her resignation in the… Login to continue reading Login…

More than merely players
His first encounter with theater was for a “community show about, like, Swedish heritage.” That was in the third or fourth grade. “From little acorns come huge oaks,” as my grandmother used to say.
People at Marshall meeting deny being paid
Kansas residents who attended a town hall meeting in Oakley earlier this month pushed back on Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall’s claim that they were paid to be there in the audience as a disruption.

Scholar sees democracy unraveling
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas public administration professor Chris Koliba has it on good authority that federal governments need major change now and then. It was President Thomas Jefferson who suggested every generation ought to engage in its own version of revolution.