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Local emergency personnel keep busy throughout any given year, and that includes the local fire department.
Liberal Fire Chief Kelly Kirk said 2024 began and ended on a positive note for the Liberal Fire Department.
Data gathering is important at all levels and recently, the State of Kansas hired a new Chief Data Officer, Kimberly DeWitt, to help with just that.
As DeWitt tells it, her path toward her new role began at a young age.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the finale in a series of three stories regarding a special meeting hosted by the Seward County Commission to finalize a plan for money the county received from the American Rescue Plan Act. This story talks about plans for $40,000 the county had left over after approving projects for usage of the rest of the money.
With nearly $1.6 million approved for projects, including $425,000 approved earlier in the meeting, and $48,700 approved for employee bonuses, the Seward County Commission next turned its attention to how to spend the just more than $40,000 remaining from the $4.16 million the county received from the American Rescue Plan Act.
Maternal health is an important part of healthcare and recently, the State of Kansas took some action to help with just that.
Wednesday, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Kansas has been selected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as one of 15 states to participate in its Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model program, which includes a $17 million grant award over the next 10 years. The goal of the TMaH Model is to improve maternal and child health care for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) members, according to a release from the State of Kansas.
In October 2024, the Seward County Commission adopted a resolution authorizing the issuance of general obligation (GO) bonds in the amount of $6.1 million to pay the cost or port of the cost of road improvements.
The resolution was published, and the protest period began. That protest period ended Dec. 23, 2024, with no protests, and Monday, commissioners unanimously passed another resolution authorizing for the sale of GO Bonds Series 2025 of Seward County.
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