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ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

International Women’s Day will be recognized in just a couple weeks, and the Liberal Recreation Center is looking to join in.

The 2025 Women's Day Luncheon will be from 12 to 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 7 in the City Commission Chambers at the Liberal Recreation Center at 950 S. Grant Ave. The event is $10, and in order to register, participants can call the Recreation Center at (620) 417-8150 or register online. Guest speakers will be City Manager Scarlette Diseker and Sunflower Elementary School Principal Ashley Lehnert.

ROBERT PIERCE

   • Leader & Times

This year’s session of the Kansas Legislature kicked off in January, and officials from Seward County and the City of Liberal spent a few days in Topeka that month attending a few events and meetings in the state capitol.

The first event came with the annual Pancakes at the Capitol, and Seward County Administrator April Warden said she and Commission Chairman Scott Carr were joined by officials with the city, the Liberal Convention & Tourism Bureau and the International Pancake Day Board to serve pancakes, sausage, fruit, juice and coffee to House representatives, senators, Gov. Laura Kelly and staffers at the capitol.

ELLY GRIMM

 • Leader & Times

Water projects are becoming increasingly important throughout Kansas, and recently, the state granted some funding to help with just that.

Thursday, Gov. Laura Kelly and the Kansas Water Office announced the award winners for the second round of the Senate Substitute for House Bill 2302 Grant Programs, which provide over $26 million in funding for water projects and technical assistance to communities across Kansas.

Special to the Leader & Times

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) reintroduced the Financing Our Energy Future Act, which expands certain financing tools to all types of energy resources and infrastructure projects.

The legislation would allow renewable energy resources and infrastructure projects to form as master limited partnerships (MLPs), a tax structure currently only available to traditional energy projects.