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USDA has designated two Southwest Kansas counties and two Oklahoma Panhandle counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas.
This secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.
A project with Air Products could be one step closer to happening thanks to some action from the Liberal City Commission Tuesday evening.
Liberal City Manager Scarlette Diseker opened the conversation.
"As you all are aware, the City of Liberal has been in talks with the Air Products Helium team for close to a year regarding the purchase of land south of the Mid-America Air Museum. The survey and appraisal have been completed. We have attached the formal Letter of Intent for the commission's approval," Diseker said. "The appraisal came in at $34,000, or $11,564.63 per acre. We don't typically do LOI's with these types of things, but in the case of Air Products, we are."
Firefighters from three Texas County, Okla., communities responded to a fire Monday morning between Goodwell, Okla., and Guymon, Okla.
Along with those communities, firefighters from Texhoma, Okla., at 10:35 a.m. Monday, responded to the fire, and Guymon Fire Chief Grant Wadley said the fire located at 2433 Road Z was noticed by a passerby who noticed smoke coming from the residence.
Recognizing the critical role housing plays in improving the lives of all residents and supporting economic growth, the Seward County Development Corporation, along with the Nebraska-based agency Five Rule Rural Planning (FRRP), recently completed a comprehensive housing study to understand the county’s most pressing housing needs.
FRRP owner Bobbi Pettit recently reviewed the study with community leaders, and she said she tried to gather and organize as much information on the local housing situation as possible to make it tangible for those in the audience.
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is warning about a new scam circulating via text message.
The texts falsely claim to be from KDOT and demand payment for outstanding traffic tickets.
KDOT does not collect money for traffic tickets and will never request or collect payments through text messages. These messages are not legitimate.
