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Katie Coleman and Micaela Thomas were both teenagers when they found at they were pregnant, and for both, the situation was a scary one.
“I felt like my world had stopped,” Coleman, who was 16 at the time, said.
“I was supposed to be going into my senior year of high school, ready to celebrate the closing chapter of a story,” Thomas, who was 17 at the time, said. “Instead, I opened a new one, a scary one.”
Those possibly needing some future roofing work done now have a new option with Myers Roofing.
Owners Mark and Carrington Myers hosted a ribbon-cutting for the company at the Rock Island Depot last week, and both said they have been working on the company for a long time.
“We'd been talking about putting something like this together before we moved back to Liberal from Washington. We were business partners with some friends of ours there, and we'd been working in roofing for about five years with them, and we wanted to provide that same service to the people in Liberal for a good price,” Mark said.
The first constituent to come forward to the podium to voice their concerns about Seward County’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget and a hike of more than 13 mills at Monday’s public hearing was resident Dave Box, who initially asked if the funds being collected by the county to pay back Conestoga Energy were only for the years 2018 to 2020 or if additional funds were being saved to pay for what company officials feel was a wrongful appraisal of a facility.
Commission Chairman Scott Carr said when he, Presephoni Fuller and Tammy Sutherland-Abbott came on board the commission in 2024, they decided to start setting aside $500,000 a year for the case.
As discussion continued at Monday’s public hearing for the Fiscal Year 2026 budget, more constituents sounded off, as did Seward County staff and commissioners.
Much of the talk around the Conestoga Energy case in which the company appealed its appraisal to the Board of Tax Appeals concerned the accruing interest on a potential payback currently sitting at nearly $6 million being asked for at this time.
Administrator April Warden said that number is set by Kansas statute and is subject to change, but it currently sits at 8.25 percent based on BOTA’s most recent ruling.
The staff at the Coronado Museum and Dorothy’s House is always looking for ways to enhance visitors’ experience, and next month will feature something particularly new.
The theatre troupe Live History will be making its way to the Coronado Museum and Dorothy’s House Saturday, Oct. 11, and they will be performing a show titled ‘In Time.’ The show is interactive, with multiple members of the troupe playing certain characters, and the show is also something visitors will be able to participate in. Session start times will be available every fifteen minutes from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and tickets are $8. As Coronado Museum Director Nathan Dowell tells it, the experience should be fun for all.
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