Gardner Edgerton News

After three years with the Gardner Police Department, Police Chief Pam Waldeck is stepping down. Waldeck announced her retirement at the April 21 city council meeting, where the city council also unanimously approved hiring Deputy Chief Kelly Herron to take...

The city of Gardner is moving to take public control of the roads and water lines in the Aspen Place neighborhood, nearly a year after condemning the property and displacing hundreds of residents. This comes as the complex's owner, who...

Nestled in the heart of downtown Edgerton sits a new business — Happy Cow Cafe — where residents can find ice cream, baked goods, coffee, soft drinks and even take-and-bake pizza. The business fills the former ice cream shop, Scoopy’s...

Jay had a choice to make last week: Extend his hospital stay so he could get medical treatment, or go to court for unpaid fines after he was caught sleeping in a public park bathroom. All he had needed...

Gardner Police are investigating after a car crashed through the front windows of a Mexican restaurant early Tuesday afternoon. Police, firefighters and paramedics were called to La Carreta Mexican Restaurant and Cantina, 949 E. Lincoln Lane, which faces Main Street,...

Edgerton voters narrowly approved a 1% special use sales tax for stormwater and street improvements, according to unofficial final results from the Johnson County Election Office on Tuesday. Voters approved the measure by a nine-vote margin, with 52.4%, or 98...

Ballots are on the way to Edgerton residents for the city’s upcoming election for a 1% special sales tax that, if approved, would go toward stormwater and street improvements across the city. Residents have until March 3 at noon to...

At the start of 2026, the Johnson County Post is looking ahead to some of the major development projects that we are keeping an eye on this year, including those that have already begun work or are anticipated to...

Updated: Friday, Jan. 2, 5:30 p.m. A 34-year-old man has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder in connection to a fatal stabbing in Gardner on New Year's morning. The Johnson County District Attorney’s Office has charged Kavin Bryan Moreno, 34, with...

Five people were taken to local hospitals with injuries suffered in a head-on crash in southern Johnson County on Saturday. The crash occurred along Old 56 Highway near Clare Road, just outside of Olathe’s city limits. The crash scene is...

A new basketball court is finally set for construction in Gardner — thanks to fundraising efforts and a $50,000 T-Mobile grant — to honor the late Ashley Gorney, a former teacher and coach at Gardner Edgerton High School. Gorney, then...

By Dylan Lysen When the city of Gardner in eastern Kansas ordered Aspen Place apartments closed for unsafe living conditions last May, Candice Montgomery came home to a frantic neighborhood. She and other residents of the Gardner housing complex only had...