Mount Hope News

“I have several concerns with the construction of these units and when they will be finished. What I am looking for are answers and they seem to continuously be eluding me at every turn”

GARTH Chadband is demanding answers from the Housing Development Corporation about the status of a townhouse unit awarded to him in December, 2005. via Newsday

Albert, Jeremy J., Garden Plain, and Martin, Michelle E., Mount Hope. Allen, Steven N. and Johnston, Crystal D., both of Derby. via The Wichita Eagle

The K-96 Corridor Development Association board will meet at 12:30 p.m. Friday at Maize City Hall, 10100 Grady Ave. via The Wichita Eagle

A Kansas school board has decided not to consolidate schools from two small towns. via KSNW-TV

“He reported very fairly. "He used his talent to really capture and celebrate his hometown and this area of Kansas”

By Amy Bickel - The Hutchinson News - abickel@hutchnews.com Tim Stucky was a man of words. via The Hutchinson News, Hutchinson Kansas

A 14-year-old boy from Mount Hope was killed early Saturday in a car accident in Reno County. via The Wichita Eagle

“Like the old saying goes, 'You don't get a second chance to make a good first impression,' ”

Harland Priddle, executive director of the K-96 Corridor Development Association, said his focus was -- and is -- on jump-starting retail, commercial and housing growth along the highway from Hutchinson to ... via Kansas.com

“It's just going to take a little time”

Work is beginning on a second housing addition as Mount Hope continues its growth to the north across K-96.

Drover's Crossing, an 80-acre housing development about a quarter-mile north of K-96 on Burmac Road, is the latest part of a city plan to develop the highway corridor.

It's part of the city's move north across the four-lane highway toward the nearby Arkansas River, with homes and commercial projects on the drawing board.

Water and sewer line installations should be complete in a month, and home construction is expected to start in the spring, Mount Hope city clerk George Dick said. Read more

A gas pipeline explosion has been reported in Reno County, rattling windows in Haven and being heard at least as far as Halstead.

Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson said the explosion occurred at Rayl Road and Arlington Road, north of K-96, between Mount Hope and Haven. No injuries have been reported.

A Haven city employee reported that the first explosion occurred at about 3:10 p.m., rattling windows in the small Reno County town.

Check Kansas.com for updates. Read more

Three Mount Hope teenagers remain hospitalized in Wichita after a driving mishap early Sunday morning.

Sedgwick County Sheriff's Capt. Bruce Morton said an 18-year-old man was driving on a rural road shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday when he decided to drive through a field to arrive more quickly at a passenger's home. The pickup went through a barbed wire fence, hit a culvert in a ditch, went airborne and struck a drainage culvert on K-96.

None of the three people in the 1994 Ford Ranger pickup was wearing a seat belt, Morton said, and all of them were transported to Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus. Read more