Happy Wednesday, Shawnee Mission!
☀️ Today’s forecast: Mostly sunny with a slight breeze. High: 41, Low: 26.
? One thing to know
Starting this week, you may notice your groceries are a bit cheaper in Kansas.
That’s because a new law lowering the state’s sales tax on food went into effect on New Year’s Day.
The law lowers the sales tax on many food items to 4% from 6.5%. That includes many staples like milk, eggs and bread.
Some things, like alcohol and prepared food items, will still be taxed at the higher rate.
Under the current law, the state food sales tax is set to be completely phased out by 2025, but Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has called on the GOP-dominated legislature to pass a measure zeroing out the tax this year.
Read more about the food sales tax, what items are reduced and what items aren’t here.
?️ Public meetings Wednesday
- Overland Park Community Development Committee, 7 p.m. [View agenda]
- Shawnee Planning Commission, 7:30 p.m. [View agenda]
- Merriam Planning Commission, CANCELED
? Tuesday’s top Post stories
- Shawnee, Lenexa development projects we’re watching in 2023
- Overland Park development projects inside I-435 we’re watching in 2023
- JoCo Notes: County chair-elect Mike Kelly to resign as RP mayor
? Other local news
- Three adults and two children were injured, one of the adults critically, in a crash Monday evening on I-35 in Olathe. [KSHB]
- A Johnson County judge ruled that a 14-year-old charged with first-degree murder in the May killing of a Missouri man at an Olathe park can be prosecuted as an adult. [Kansas City Star]
- Tuesday’s total of 1.08 inches in the Kansas City area broke a daily rainfall record for Jan. 2, which dated back to 1897. [National Weather Service]
? Notable tweets
Olathe firefighters rescued a deer that became stranded on a frozen lake New Year’s Day.
#Olathe #Firefighters broke some #ice and made a path for a #deer that was stranded in Cedar Lake near 155th St & Lone Elm Rd. The call came in around 11 am from a person who spotted the deer treading water in the lake. Once to shore, the #buck rested and eventually trotted off. pic.twitter.com/3Yg1Mlixex
— Olathe Fire Dept. (@OlatheFire) January 1, 2023
The Sanders Justice Center in Overland Park is now completely powered by a solar panel array.
The sun gives us heat, and in Overland Park, it now gives us power! ☀️
Sanders Justice Center is home to the City’s first solar panel system. The outbuilding powers the campus and has been operational since November.
Learn more about this new development in the video below! pic.twitter.com/J8tMv50L61
— City of Overland Park, Kansas (@opcares) December 29, 2022
The Gary L. Haller Trail in Shawnee reopened Tuesday after Monday’s torrential downpour.
The Gary L. Haller Trail near Mid-America Sports Complex has reopened for trail use. Please use caution on the trail through the areas that had work done as they could be slippery in some spots. pic.twitter.com/wvawsAeYUZ
— JCPRD (@JCPRDparks) January 3, 2023
? A thousand words
A hawk captured hovering over reader Bryce Puntenney’s yard near the Shops of Prairie Village.
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