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City Has Hope Of A Balanced Budget For 2018

By Hannah Alldritt
Anthony City Commission met in regular session on June 20 at 6:00 p.m. A quorum was “barely present” as Mayor Greg Cleveland and Jan Lanie were both absent. Acting Mayor Jim Anderson and Commissioners Howard Hatfield and Kenny Hodson Jr. were present.
Following approval of minutes and no public comments, Ordinance #5982 for $650,578.36 and Payroll for $65,548.09 were approved. Included in the ordinance amount was the purchase of a jetter and vacuum combination truck for the Sewer Dept. which they took possession of on Tuesday.
Unfinished Business
A Dangerous Structure deadline for 213 S. Jennings Ave. was given a two-week extension as the individual doing the demolition was still working harvest. New deadline is July 5.
The Commissioners also approved 3-0 the Temporary Food Vendor permit for the Summer Sno-Ballz stand operated by the Gates family. This year the stand will be mobile and parked at different places around town including at the...

Fire Set To Multiple Vehicles At Anthony Apartment Complex

ANTHONY, Kan. (KWCH) The Anthony Police Department is trying to find out who is behind a series of fires at a local apartment complex.
Firefighters were dispatched to two car fires at the Reddens Village apartment complex on Saturday. The first was at 9:30 a.m. Crews say fire spread from one car to a second one. Both cars were destroyed. Around 2:30 p.m. that same day, crews responded to another fire at the same complex. A fire had destroyed a third car.
Monday night, around 9:15 p.m., crews responded to another fire involving a vehicle at the complex, that car did not burn.
Anthony Police Chief Kenny Hodson says the all of the vehicles that burned were unlocked, and the fires were started from inside. The car that did not burn was locked so the criminals tried to ignite it with toilet paper placed near the gas tank.
Hodson says in the last month, his officers have been called out to three structure fire calls and now, these car fires.
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Harper County EMS Director Resigns

By Hannah Alldritt
County Commissioners had a full slate of visitors at their June 19 meeting.
First up was Matt Booker, Planning Commission Chairman with a resolution for a conditional use permit for an electrical substation in an A3 Agricultural district. The substation will be an expansion of the one located one mile south and two miles east of Anthony at SE 10 Rd and SE 20 Ave. Commissioners passed Resolution 2017-05 unanimously.
Todd Eagleston from Sempra Energy was present to ask Commissioners to lower the Blade Tip Clearance minimum for wind turbines in Harper County from 82 feet to 68 feet. “As technology progresses we can expand the size of the rotors,” he said, “There’s a cost trade- off between height and how to capture wind.” Expansion of the wind farms in Harper and Kingman Counties will continue into 2019 with a 50/50 split in tower placement between the two. Kingman Co. recently voted to allow a minimum clearance of 50 feet to allow for future...