GREAT BEND TRIBUNE Kiosk part of statewide COVID testing effort Larned site one of many offering free tests A kiosk offering free COVID-19 testing is located at Escue Chapel in Larned. It is part of a statewide testing campaign involving state and private partners. - photo by DALE HOGG Great Bend Tribune
LARNED – In the grassy parking lot of the Escue Chapel at 1220 Carroll Ave. in Larned stands a blue and white COVID-19 testing kiosk where free tests for the virus are offered.0
The site is part of a statewide campaign launched in December that includes the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and a host of health-care companies, partnering to bring this service to as many Kansans as possible.
Gov. Laura Kelly directed flags to be flown at half-staff from sunup to sundown throughout Kansas on Saturday, Feb. 6, to honor 4,101 Kansans who lost their lives to COVID-19.
Johnson County neighbors organize in opposition to 600-acre Edgerton warehouse project Wayne Davis, a retired truck driver, moved out to rural southern Johnson County from Mission more than 20 years ago to get closer to nature and have more space for his grandchildren to run around. He worries a 636-acre warehouse project across the street from his property (towards where he s pointing in the above picture) would threaten that. Photo credit Leah Wankum.
For Wayne Davis, a truck driver for Associated Wholesale Grocers, the move down Interstate 35 from Mission to rural Edgerton in 1998 was a dream come true.
Only a 30-minute drive from his job in Kansas City, Kan., the house in Edgerton on 14 acres gave Davis and his wife more room to enjoy the country and, eventually, have grandkids visit.
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Clanton: The city has lost a second elected official to the coronavirus pandemic six months after the longtime mayor died of COVID-19. City Council member Sammy Wilson died Thursday while in a hospital where he was being treated for the illness caused by the new virus, WBRC-TV reports. A statement by Mayor Jeff Mims said the town of 8,800 people was thankful for Wilson’s service to the community. Council member Mary Mell Smith called Wilson’s death “a big loss.” “He had that big smile on his face every time you saw him,” she said. Wilson died about six months after Billy Joe Driver, who had served as mayor for 36 years before he died of COVID-19 in July. Mims was elected to replace Driver.