Gardner Edgerton News

After months of consideration, the Gardner Edgerton Board of Education decided earlier this month to leave its open seat vacant until the 2027 election. The board conducted three candidate interviews in May but couldn’t reach a consensus on who should...

Project Velocity, a proposed arts and entertainment district in Gardner, took multiple steps forward in the planning process this month. On Aug. 18, the Gardner City Council adopted a resolution “approving the execution and delivery to a Non-Binding Memorandum of...

Three Johnson County libraries will have temporary closures this fall for maintenance that ranges from roof replacement to routine maintenance on air handling systems. County library board members authorized the repairs without comment during recent board meetings. Gardner Library —...

Growing concerns about the use of automated license plate readers, like Flock cameras, have prompted one Johnson County police department to discontinue its use of the controversial devices. On Monday, the Gardner City Council voted to immediately turn off four...

The city of Edgerton has filed a lawsuit in Johnson County District Court to block a citizen-led petition seeking to ban data centers in the small southern Johnson County community. On Aug. 4, the city filed the lawsuit against Kimberly...

A new proposal for an arts and entertainment complex in Gardner is pushing big plans for a 335-acre space on the north side of I-35 at 175th Street. Velocity Arts is a mixed-use plan comprised of many pieces, including a...

Gardner Police say they are conducting a death investigation after an adult was found dead at a townhouse on Saturday morning. In a news release, Captain Zach Roberts said officers were called to conduct a welfare check at a residence...

Plans for an $860 million data center project in Edgerton are moving forward despite the city's planning commission rejecting it in June. On July 16, during a special meeting, the Edgerton City Council unanimously overrode the planning commission's rejection of final...

From the time he could talk, Adam Shay started selling fireworks. He recalled this recently on a humid summer day, under the air-conditioned protection of a small RV travel trailer set a couple hundred feet from the Eddie’s Fireworks tent...

The Edgerton City Council has denied a temporary ban on data centers, making it the second community in Johnson County to consider and deny a moratorium this month. Next door in Gardner, the city council considered but ultimately denied a similar...

After a month of deliberation, Edgerton made the move to deny an application Tuesday night for an $860 million data center in Logistics Park Kansas City. The Edgerton Planning Commission voted 3-2 to deny the data center application from Dubai-based...

A motion to put a six-month pause on data centers in Gardner died Monday night, despite support from residents and the backing of one city councilmember. The discussion comes as multiple Johnson County cities, including Gardner, have been weighing data...