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Highway 24 Alliance hosts “ Holiday Highway”

Mon, 11/22/2021 - 12:00am

KANSAS – In June, 2021 the updated Highway 24 Garage Sales were a huge success. Now the Solomon Valley Highway 24 Heritage Alliance is hosting a second event to promote the communities and businesses along the Kansas Highway 24 corridor. On its website at https://www.hwy24.org/ the Alliance is collecting and listing all the light displays and special holiday events for November and December, 2021. Each community will need to submit their own special events on a simple form available at the SVHighway 24 website. Events and displays are posted to a calendar and a google map on the website inviting residents and travelers to enjoy the joy of the season by driving Hwy 24.

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Chautauqua Isle of Lights opens Wednesday

Mon, 11/22/2021 - 12:00am

BELOIT – The Chautauqua Isle of Lights will open for its’ 21st year on Nov. 24 and will close on Friday, Dec. 31.

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M.C.O. Rural Fire District No. 1 sees red

M.C.O. Rural Fire District No. 1 sees red

Mon, 11/22/2021 - 12:00am

After the M.C.O. Rural Fire District No. 1 became part of the North Central Task Force No. 1 in 2018, they have provided mutual aid to other fire districts in combating wildfires including Medicine Lodge – (400,000 acres loss in Oklahoma and Kansas over four days in 2016), Hutchinson – (656,000 acres in at least 21 Kansas counties on March 8, 2017) and currently to Nebraska. The regional Wildland Task Force was assembled by the USDA Forest Service Analysis Team as part of a statewide initiative to assist wildfire incidents after over half a million acres burned during 2016-17.

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City projects discussed and move forward

Fri, 11/19/2021 - 12:00am

City of Beloit Manager, Jason Rabe, discussed the water treatment plant during Wednesday City Council meeting, as continuing to hit design approval benchmarks with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). Two of the recent benchmarks were approval of the summary of design changes and the waste stream summary. This will allow the engineers to move forward with the full design of the plant for bid.

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Foreign landowners must report holdings

Fri, 11/19/2021 - 12:00am

BELOIT – Jamie Powell, County Executive Director of the Mitchell County Farm Service Agency (FCA), is reminding foreign investors who buy, sell or hold a direct or indirect interest in agricultural lands in the United States that they are required under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act to report their holdings and transactions to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.