Newsletter-Early-Week

The City of Lindsborg will allow city employees up to four weeks of paid time off to care for and bond with a new child, but a proposal to let them turn accumulated sick leave into vacation time was struck from employee handbook revisions that the City Council approved by a 5-1 vote Monday night. In other business, the council continued contracts for ambulance service and insurance, and approved a sandblast-and-paint job for the swimming pool.

After a little more than three years on the job, Lindsborg City Administrator Kristi Northcutt has given her resignation notice and will take a new… Login to continue reading Login…

Anti-abortion groups and reproductive rights advocates sparred in a Kansas legislative committee room last week over a bill that opponents say would give embryos and fetuses the same legal rights as pregnant women — a legal concept known as fetal personhood. HB 2062 would allow a judge to ask fathers to make child support payments beginning at the moment of conception.

The Lindsborg City Council on Monday approved a $10,730 bid to build 278 feet of sidewalk that will connect features of Swensson Park for easier access by wheelchair or with a stroller, especially when the ground is wet.