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24 states get $560M for high-priority cleanup of wells

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ‚Äî The Interior Department is giving 24 states a total of $560 million to start cleaning high-priority oil and gas wells abandoned on state and private land. A news release said up to 10,000 wells could be dealt with under grants announced Thursday. It’s part of $4.7 billion set for orphan well cleanup under the bipartisan infrastructure plan approved late last year. The department has said $1.15 billion will be given out during this fiscal year. Most of the states are getting $25 million each. Arkansas and Mississippi are getting $5 million each.

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Area Kids Find Success on Rodeo Circuit

CANTON – Unbeknownst to most, 30 McPherson County Area kids spent part of their summer finding success on the rodeo circuit as members of the Central Kansas Youth Rodeo Association. The CKYRA held nine rodeos’ in Canton in the four months covering May, June, July and August, finishing up with the summer finals on Friday/ Saturday, August 13 and 14.

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Election officials can’t access federal funding for security as violent threats mount

Colorado’s election officials, like so many across the country, faced a surge of violent threats after the 2020 election. Federal authorities are prosecuting a man who pled guilty to threatening a Colorado election official on Instagram, where he wrote: “Do you feel safe? You shouldn’t.” And Colorado police arrested a man accused of calling Secretary of State Jena Griswold and saying that “the angel of death is coming for her.” So when the Colorado secretary of state’s office learned early this year that the U.S.

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Woodward Works at Making All Things Work

(Another in our series of “Profiles of McPherson County Business Leaders”) Somebody has to be in charge of making things keep running and working for the city of McPherson and that person since October of 2013 has been Jeff Woodward, our Director of Public Works. Wearing many hats is part of the process of being in charge of public works and Woodward understands that as he oversees the City Engineering Department, the Street Department, the Wastewater Treatment Facility, the Planning and Zoning Department, Code Enforcement and the city’s Building Inspector.

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School!

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You Drink. You Drive. You Lose

McPherson Police release Drivers are advised that during the period of August 20 through Labor Day, September 7, the McPherson Police Department will join other police agencies across Kansas in a crackdown aimed at removing impaired drivers from the roadways during You Drink. You Drive.

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