Data Center Plans Spur Kansas Water and Zoning Reviews

Vance Plans Olathe Campaign Stop With Marshall

Wichita Police Use Drone Footage to Explain Crowd Dispersal

State Fair Opens as Bison Arena Returns

Kelly Orders Flags Lowered as Kansas Remembers 9/11

Data Center Plans Spur Kansas Water and Zoning Reviews

TONGANOXIE, Kan. — Leavenworth County commissioners will hear residents on Project Bluestem, a proposed data center on more than 1,000 acres south of Tonganoxie, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, in the Administration Building at the county fairgrounds. The county's 90-day pause on applications expired in August, when planning commissioners voted 8-1 to revisit proposed regulations after residents raised concerns about noise, water use and health. A separate motion to put Bluestem to a countywide vote failed 2-2, with Commissioners Stieben and Smith in favor, Culbertson and Reid opposed and Dove absent. In southwest Kansas, Dodge City says its role in proposed Ford County data centers is evaluating water and wastewater service, while land-use approvals, development agreements, taxation and electric service fall to the county and other bodies. The proposals raise water-supply questions in Ford County, which sits above the depleting High Plains/Ogallala aquifer, as Dodge City pursues treated-effluent reuse to stretch municipal supplies. The city's update describes no commitment of water, land or incentives and provides no construction timetable.

The Tonganoxie Mirror · KCUR · Dodge City Daily Globe

Vance Plans Olathe Campaign Stop With Marshall

OLATHE, Kan. — Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to appear Monday, Sept. 14, alongside U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall at Webco Manufacturing Inc., a metal fabrication plant at 20570 W. 162nd St. in Olathe. MAGA Inc., a super political action committee supporting President Donald Trump, is organizing the ticketed event. The announced schedule lists doors opening at 9:30 a.m., the program beginning at noon and Vance speaking at 1:35 p.m. The public can request up to four tickets per mobile number through the committee's events website. Marshall, a Kansas Republican, is seeking a second term against Democrat Adam Hamilton in the Nov. 3 election. The Olathe stop is part of a broader Kansas City metro visit, bringing national campaign support to Marshall's reelection effort.

KCTV5 · KSHB 41 · MAGA Inc.

Wichita Police Use Drone Footage to Explain Crowd Dispersal

WICHITA, Kan. — Wichita police say drone surveillance helped them identify fights in Old Town following a Labor Day weekend concert at Wave Outdoors, and the department released the footage to explain a crowd dispersal that led to 11 arrests. The department said an officer in its Real Time Information Center spotted a fight between two women near Sin City using a drone, which also recorded a fight outside Rock Island Live in a crowd of about 300. Police said mounted officers responded, a lieutenant repeatedly ordered people to leave and officers from patrol bureaus across the city were called in after some refused. The department said officers cleared the crowd through their presence and verbal directions without using force to disperse it. Festival organizers said they felt targeted by the heavy deployment, while police said their response was unrelated to the concert or its audience's demographics. A police spokesperson told KWCH Sept. 9 that he was unsure whether any of the 11 people arrested had been charged.

KWCH

State Fair Opens as Bison Arena Returns

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Kansas State Fair opens Friday, Sept. 11, at the fairgrounds on North Poplar Street and runs through Sunday, Sept. 20. Vendors finished preparations Thursday for the 10-day event, which typically draws more than 300,000 visitors from across Kansas. Organizers say Bison Arena reopens after five years out of service. A new lumberjack show joins returning attractions including the Budweiser Clydesdales, goat yoga and pig races. The state's largest agricultural exhibition brings together 4-H and FFA livestock exhibitors from all 105 counties as widespread drought strains Kansas crops. The opening also follows announcements this week that Hutchinson's city manager and city attorney were leaving their positions, creating uncertainty in city leadership during the gathering.

KWCH · Ad Astra Radio · Visit Hutch · Kansas FFA · Western Kansas News · Hutchinson Tribune

Kelly Orders Flags Lowered as Kansas Remembers 9/11

TOPEKA, Kan. — Gov. Laura Kelly issued a directive Thursday, Sept. 10, under Executive Order 20-30 for flags across Kansas to fly at half-staff from sunup to sundown Friday, Sept. 11, marking 25 years since the 2001 terrorist attacks. The statewide observance honors nearly 3,000 people killed and thousands injured, and Kelly praised first responders who saved lives despite losing more than 400 of their own. Friday's announced events included 10 a.m. ceremonies at the Topeka Fire Department, 324 S.E. Jefferson St., and at Fort Riley near Sheridan and Arnold avenues. Lawrence planned a KU ROTC memorial stair climb at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium and a Dole Institute tribute performance in a hall containing two beams from the World Trade Center's North Tower. In Overland Park, volunteers with the nonprofit SevenDays cleaned the city's 9/11 memorial Wednesday, Sept. 9, ahead of the anniversary, KCTV5 reported.

Western Kansas News · WIBW · Lawrence Journal-World · KCTV5

Sources

1. The Tonganoxie Mirror / KCUR / Dodge City Daily Globe
2. KCTV5 / KSHB 41 / MAGA Inc.
3. KWCH / KWCH / KWCH
4. KWCH / Ad Astra Radio / Visit Hutch / Kansas FFA / Western Kansas News / Hutchinson Tribune
5. Western Kansas News / WIBW / Lawrence Journal-World / KCTV5

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