Gardner Edgerton News

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...

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Gardner Edgerton’s open seat on the board of education remains unfilled, despite candidate interviews last week. After conducting three interviews during the May 11 meeting, the board failed to reach a consensus on which candidate to select. Instead, it decided...

Edgerton is the latest town in southern Johnson County to consider a new data center, despite continued pushback from residents — and this time, the community might not have a choice. On Tuesday night, the Edgerton Planning Commission voted 4-0...

The results are in, and Gardner Edgerton’s newest school has a name — Creekside Elementary. After a month of community voting and use of a composite ranking system, Creekside emerged as the winner with 199 first-place votes. The Gardner Edgerton...

Beale Infrastructure announced Wednesday afternoon its withdrawal of a proposed 300-acre data center in Gardner. The California-based company, which is also spearheading another data center project in De Soto, decided to scuttle its Gardner application after the city told the...

A proposed 300-acre data center in Gardner has nearby residents in an uproar. California-based Beale Infrastructure, which also leads the De Soto data center project, recently proposed another data center in eastern Gardner, near the northeast corner of 191st Street...

At least 300 Gardner Edgerton students will find themselves at a new school starting in the fall of 2027. Gardner Edgerton School District’s Board of Education met in a special meeting on April 27 to address next steps for an...

No one was seriously injured in a crash that forced the closure of Interstate 35 near Gardner on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the crash happened at about 12:15 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-35 at...