City of Salina terminates contract with Salina Media Connection
The city of Salina terminated its longstanding relationship with Salina Media Connection after their contract expired Wednesday. The followed a vote Monday by the city commission to allow the agreement to end.
This comes after the commission initially directed staff to bring the recording and casting of public meetings in-house on Apr. 26 and approved a resolution on May 24 to add a new position to manage the technical aspects of broadcasting on Cox channel 20.
Financial details
SMC representatives met with city staff Thursday, June 24, to discuss the future of channel 21, on which SMC broadcasts local community programming. After the meeting, SMC sent a letter requesting a short-term extension of the agreement or a long-term agreement to operate channel 21, asking for $243,207 to provide what they determined as optimum operation or $175,000 to operate at a reduced cost.
Salina professional photographer Shelley Griffith will be displaying unique portraits of local business professionals that include elements of their careers in the portraits.
The exhibit “Eye Do” by Griffith is in the virtual Gallery 708 and on display at Salina Public Library. The exhibit will be on display until May 31.
Griffith wanted to do headshots in a different way and attributes her personality and corky attitude for coming up with the idea. Everybody does the same thing, so I wanted to do something different, said Griffith. I have a friend who is a graphic designer, and he had the idea of putting paint on his face. The whole point is to do something different so that their face and what they do along with what company they represent stays in people s minds.
The Salina Public Library is extending service hours to include Monday through Thursday evenings starting this week the library will be open 9 a.m.–8:30 p.m. Monday–Thursday, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Friday–Saturday and noon–6 p.m. Sunday. Pickup Service will be available 10 a.m.–8:30 p.m. Monday–Thursday and
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After telling the populace they were purloining the goods for the Confederacy, they rode away.
Suspecting the men were nothing more than common thieves, a local posse was formed to track them down, and a messenger was sent to Fort Riley to enlist the military s help to retrieve their possessions.
The unanswered question was, did soldiers really come to help the Salina townspeople? And were the bushwhackers ever caught?
Local writer and historian Judy Magnuson Lilly was intrigued enough to research and write about this little-known piece of Salina history.
“I would see this story referenced in newspaper accounts and personal memoirs of the era,” she said. “So I decided to write a small book where people could learn a small part of our history.”