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Liberal’s annual Pancake Day celebration has been a community fixture for nearly 80 years and recently, a Liberal-born filmmaker has captured the annual tradition for a documentary short film.
Filmmaker Ben Scantlin said the idea for the project, “Flipping Pancake Day,” has been in his mind for more than a decade.
The Seward County Commission had its last regular meeting of 2024 Dec. 16, but the commission is expected to meet at least one more time before year’s end.
A special meeting will likely take place before Dec. 31 to finalize allocations for projects paid for from money the county received from the federal American Rescue Plan Act.
At its first meeting in December, the commission heard from Administrator April Warden about what has been spent from the ARPA funding thus far, and she and commissioners talked about what they would like to see the remainder of the money spent on before Dec. 31, 2026, when the county is required to have spent the money.
The Lenten season will soon be starting, which means it is almost time for Liberal’s annual Pancake Day festivities.
The biggest part of Pancake Day is the races, and soon, sign-ups will be accepted for the 2025 races.
As part of a continuing process of improving the state’s transportation system, the Kansas Department of Transportation is looking at ways to update and refine its highway project scoring and selection process.
As part of this, KDOT officials want to understand what is important to Kansas motorists, and the agency recently hosted five listening sessions, including one in Dodge City, for them to provide input on ways to refine the existing scoring process and help identify areas for improvement.
KDOT’s current scoring process has been called one of the most robust in the country and has served Kansas well for many years, and shifting trends and technology advancements offer an opportunity to refresh and modernize approaches.
Methods of energy transmission continue to be discussed and recently, some work in Kansas could help with that.
Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced 10 proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor projects have been scaled down to three, none of which will run through Kansas. In the meantime, the Grain Belt Express transmission line, approved by the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) in 2011, will continue through the state regulatory process, according to a release from the State of Kansas.
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