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ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

Redskin Field has been a fixture in the Liberal community for multiple decades, and Monday evening, some friction arose among the USD 480 school board regarding a potential new fieldhouse project there.

“I guess I’m really confused about this, because I don’t remember voting on even having this done,” Board Vice President Sarah Thompson said.

“I’d brought this to the board as part of the Facilities report back in December after I was given direction to bring this project to Facilities and then bring it back to the board,” Director of Operations Chad Mease said. “This is for concept drawings, this is not for any actual construction or building or any of that, this is to get some ideas and perspectives on what could be done.”

ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

The Liberal City Commission will officially be voting on a change to community members’ water bills at its next meeting this evening starting at 5:30. This evening’s meeting will be in the commission chambers at the Liberal Recreation Center at 950 S. Grant Ave.

Up first in these discussions will be Resolution No. 2430 concerning the adoption of a Wastewater Improvement Fee.

ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

Liberal’s Animal Control Department works hard every day in the community and recently, some recognition was bestowed.

Tara Logan, who serves as the Liberal Animal Shelter director, was recently awarded the Kansas Animal Control Association's Animal Welfare Professional of the Year Award. As Logan tells it, getting the award was a huge surprise.

ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

The past few years have seen a surge in misinformation and misconceptions being spread about immigration and people going through the process according to one local DACA beneficiary.

Local intern therapist Sarahi Aguilera has been working tirelessly to help combat that, and as she tells it, her work started early.