A Pottawatomie County EMS ambulance parked outside Dillon’s in 2019 during a Fill the Box food drive. (courtesy photo)
Pottawatomie County EMS saw a nearly 4.5 percent drop in its overall calls for service in 2020, some of which is attributed to the pandemic.
EMS Director Hal Bumgarner informed county commissioners Monday that for the third year in a row, Wamego handled the most call volume in the county, with Onaga seeing one of the sharpest increases in call volume.
“Half of our calls in Onaga are transfers, a third of our calls in Wamego are transfers. Keep that in mind when we start talking about miles on the trucks,” he said.
World Enough and Time: Fallout
Bill Hagen
Contributing writer
I wasn’t going to comment on our recent election, but then Jan. 6 happened. Our own epiphany. Thankfully, Marilyn Bradford, Terry Turner and others, quoted in news stories and opinion pieces, have commented reasonably and well on what happened.
Definitions seem important: what the Constitution defines as a fair election process and what to call the invasion of the Capitol. Jennifer Rubin certainly sums up my view, starting with a definition of the latter:
“We are talking about domestic terrorism, which the FBI defines as ‘the unlawful use, or threatened use, of violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the United States (or its territories) without foreign direction committed against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.’ Shouldn’t any politician who exhort
Only in 2020 would we have a story about alligators being found in Wildcat Creek.
For a brief time in June the public was advised to avoid Linear Trail and Wildcat Creek after two alligators were stolen from Reptile World. Public reports of seeing the gator in the water led to a social media frenzy including memes of the Manhattan flag changing from an apple to a gator.
The female gator, named Pebbles unfortunately died in June after a trap slipped under the water, which the owners believe was tampered with. The other gator Beauregard was returned safely to his tank a few weeks after the ordeal.
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