News and Events from the Greater Garden City Area
GARDEN CITY – The City of Garden City has won two national awards for videos produced by its IT & Communications Department. The awards were given by the City-County Communications & Marketing Association (3CMA). 3CMA is a national network of local government communicators. Each year during its annual conference, the organization hosts […]
By SCOTT AUST, FCEDC Director of Communications The first of two gubernatorial candidate debates is scheduled tonight at Garden City High School, with the second coming in two weeks. Tonight most of the Republican candidates for governor will appear at 5:30 p.m. Former state senator Jim Barnett, Kansas Secretary of […]
GARDEN CITY – Garden City’s municipal electric utility now uses more than 30 percent renewable energy resources to serve its customers after the City began taking a portion of its power needs from Buckeye Wind Energy Center on June 1. Garden City is a member of the Kansas Municipal Energy […]
The Finney County Clerk’s Office is reminding voters and potential candidates that the deadline to file to run for office, and the deadline to switch party affiliation before the August primary, is noon this Friday, June 1. Kansas law passed in 2014 prohibits registered voters already affiliated with a party […]
By Greater Garden City The Garden City Police Department and the Finney County Sheriff’s Office joined Tuesday to commemorate National Peace Officers Memorial Day. The local service, in front of the Law Enforcement Center, included presentations by Chief Michael Utz, Sheriff Kevin Bascue and Garden City Vice Mayor Dan Fankhauser. […]
By SCOTT AUST, FCEDC Director of Communications It’s not unusual for young people to flee their small towns after high school to see what the big, wide world has to offer. Sara McClure was no different. The Garden City native left for college in California to be closer to “the […]
By SCOTT AUST, FCEDC Director of Communications After more than a year of work, the draft of a new Finney County comprehensive plan has been presented to the Holcomb-Garden City-Finney County Area Planning Commission for review. Last week, consultants Lisa Nguyen, transportation engineer, and David Church, senior supervising engineer, with […]
By SCOTT AUST, FCEDC Director of Communications Greg Orman, independent candidate for Kansas governor, came to Garden City on Wednesday to announce and introduce state Senator John Doll as his running mate. Orman said he met Doll after the 2016 elections and Doll suggested Orman should think about running for […]
By SCOTT AUST, FCEDC Director of Communications During their day-long, annual goal setting retreat at the Finnup Center on Wednesday, Garden City Commissioners identified a group of general categories — including economic development, airport expansion, water, electric utility, beautification, housing and code review — that will eventually be fine tuned […]
By SCOTT AUST, FCEDC Director of Communications Finney County employees are taking advantage of a wellness program through St. Catherine Hospital that is helping them improve their health. The county has contracted with the hospital for the past four years. Health experts with the hospital provide wellness program services for […]
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