Category: Local News

From KAKE.com…

Hundreds more drivers are expected to take south Broadway to the Kansas Star Casino when it is open, meaning economic development for Haysville and Sedgwick County.

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Haysvilles new disc golf course is now open. It is a 9 hole course located in Riggs Park. The course may be expanded to 18 holes in the future. This evening all of those on the course that I spoke with were avid disc golfers and had come from Wichita to play. More information on the game of disc golf here.

From the Wichita Business Journal

McDonald’s Corp. has signed a lease to occupy a portion of a vacant strip center in the Wichita suburb. The store will be located at 200 N. Main in Haysville, according to the strip center’s developer and real estate broker.

Read more here.

If you would have asked me I would have told you McDonalds will never build here in Haysville and I might still be right but renting a spot in a strip mall never crossed my mind.

Originally posted 06-19-2011
From Kansas.com….

Unruh, Norton, Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, Haysville Mayor Ken Hampton and trail organizer Richard Schodorf met outside of the Historic County Courthouse to celebrate the newly themed walking trails in downtown Wichita and Haysville.

Haysvilles downtown hosts the magic and sesquicentennial trails. Most trails are two miles long.

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If anyone knows where/what the “magic and sesquicentennial trails” are please comment below.

Update: Ive since found the Magic trail. This is the path in the S/E quadrant of Haysville. I didnt count the signs but it has about 8 to 10 of these signs each displaying and explaining an optical illusion. I still dont know where the Sesquicentennial Trail is.

Im no expert but I believe Haysvilles Mother Goose is a domestic goose of some kind.

Haysville Hometown Market
Begins Saturday, June 18th
8:00am – 11:00am.
South Main and Grand.
For info call (316)529-5922

The market is open Open every Saturday thru mid September.

Spotted this fox today standing in the middle of Park street. It ran to the Cowskin creek when I approached. Photo was taken from quite a distance with my camera phone.

Images from Saturdays Bicycle Safety Rodeo.

Somehow I missed this last year. From WAMPO (Wichita Area Metropolitan Planning Organization)…

The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) conducted a call for Transportation Enhancement (TE) projects for the 2010 TE program, which covers projects for FFY 2011 and
2012. TE funds may be used for enhancement or preservation related transportation projects that fall into three categories: historic, scenic and environmental, and pedestrian and bicycle.
Nine bicycle and pedestrian projects and one scenic and environmental project were received.
However, WAMPO was notified by KDOT that the scenic and environmental project does not qualify, hence it is not included in the list below. Per the WAMPO TE Policy, Project Selection Criteria (PSC) was applied to all bicycle and pedestrian projects based on the information received from the sponsor in the WAMPO application. The following is a summary with the project name and PSC score:

Haysville Sarah Ln.: N. Main to Hungerford 80

Read the entire document (PDF) here.