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TSnews CONWAY SPRINGS – Plans for a potential $3 million bond issue for major street repairs in Conway Springs are continuing to take shape, following action last week by the local City Council. At their meeting last Tuesday, council members discussed a bond issue proposal that would be larger than anything previously reviewed by the council.

TSnews At their Aug. 10 meeting, the Cheney City Council approved Ordinance 950, officially regulating the use of motorized scooters within the corporate limits of Cheney.

TSnews Among the new pastors who have recently entered the Clearwater church community is Steve Dickie. Steve Dickie is the new lead pastor of the Evangelical Free Church of Clearwater.

Kansas Reflector MARION — In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home. Eric Meyer, owner and publisher of the newspaper, said police were motivated by a confidential source who leaked sensitive documents to the newspaper, and the message was clear: “Mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.” The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took “everything we have,” Meyer said, and it wasn’t clear how the newspaper staff would take the weekly publication to press Tuesday night.

TSnews CHENEY – Attendance at last week's Cheney Chamber of Commerce meeting may have hit a record as several new school administrators and teachers attended the meeting to get acquainted with members of the community. All of the new school personnel were introduced during the meeting, and several other business items also had to do with the start of the new school year.

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Kerri Leanne Telford, the Haysville woman accused of stabbing or cutting a 90-year-old man on Aug. 8, also has a charge of aggravated battery stemming from a knife attack on Feb.

Harold Harper, Jr., was severely burned when a container of gasoline which he was using accidentally ignited– burning his arms and legs. Harper sustained second-degree burns after he was reportedly using the gasoline to clean tractor spark plugs when it somehow ignited.