The high today could be in the mid-50s to about 58. (National Weather Service graphic)Tuesday’s high will be over 60, and as high as 65. (National Weather Service graphic)
The weather warms up today, with a high near 58, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
Tuesday, temperatures may reach 65, the weather service said.
Westerly winds are expected to gust between 20 and 25 mph this afternoon, according to the weather service.
A cold front will move through Tuesday night, knocking temperatures down to seasonal normals for the rest of the week, the weather service said.
At 9 a.m. Monday, the temperature was 36 degrees, with a wind chill of 29, according to the weather service. By 3 p.m. Monday, temperatures should reach 53.
Today, it will be sunny, with a high near 58 and a west southwest wind of 9 to 15 mph, gusting to 23 mph, the weather service said.
Tonight, it will be mostly clear, with a low of 31 and a west wind of 6 to 11 mph, according to the weather service.
Tuesday, it will be sunny, with a high near 65 and a south southwest wind of 6 to 14 mph, gusting as high as 22 mph, the weather service said.
Tuesday night, it will be mostly clear, with a low of 33 and a south southwest wind of 7 to 9 mph becoming north northwest after midnight, according to the weather service.
Wednesday, it will be mostly sunny, with a high near 47 and a north wind of 9 to 11 mph, the weather service said.
Wednesday night, it will be mostly cloudy, with a low of 27, according to the weather service.
Thursday, it will be partly sunny, with a high near 46, the weather service said.
Thursday night, it will be mostly clear, with a low of 28, according to the weather service.
Friday, it will be partly sunny, with a high near 48, the weather service said.
Friday night, it will be partly cloudy, with a low of 32, according to the weather service.
Saturday, it will be mostly sunny, with a high near 54, the weather service said.
Saturday night, it will be mostly cloudy, with a low of 35, according to the weather service.
Sunday, there is a 30 percent chance of rain, with a high near 50, the weather service said.
Wyandotte County reported an increase of 20 COVID-19 cases on Sunday, Feb. 21, according to the Unified Government’s COVID-19 webpage. There were a cumulative 17,486 cases. There was a cumulative total of 263 deaths reported, the same as Saturday.
The Mid-America Regional Council’s COVID-19 dashboard reported 154,836 cumulative COVID-19 cases on Sunday. The daily average of new hospitalizations was 92.
The state of Kansas reported 290,832 COVID-19 cases statewide on Friday, an increase of 2,115 cases since Wednesday, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. There were an additional 93 deaths reported, with a cumulative total of 4,614.
The Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dashboard on Sunday night reported 28,133,699 cases in the United States, with 498,879 total deaths nationwide.
The Pierson Community Center COVID-19 testing site at 831 S. 55th is open at 9 a.m. Monday, Feb. 22, according to the www.gogettested.com/Kansas website. Appointments are required, and should be made through the website.
Unified Government COVID-19 testing and vaccine sites are scheduled to be open on Monday. Those seeking vaccinations need to have an appointment, while those seeking COVID-19 testing may walk in and get a test kit.
The Unified Government Health Department’s COVID-19 test site at the former Kmart building at 78th and State will be open Monday, Feb. 22, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Appointments are not needed for COVID-19 tests there on Monday. To see if there is any change to the schedule, visit https://www.facebook.com/UGHealthDept.
The Health Department is offering saliva COVID-19 tests to the public. Tests from the Health Department are free for those who live or work in Wyandotte County.
The tests are open to asymptomatic people as well as those who have symptoms or have been exposed to COVID-19. Check with the UG Health Department’s Facebook page to see if there have been any changes in the schedule. Bring something that shows that you live or work in Wyandotte County, such as a utility bill.
Wyandotte County residents who are interested in getting a COVID-19 vaccine may fill out a survey form at the UG Health Department at https://us.openforms.com/Form/2f2bcc68-3b6a-450b-9007-d39819db6572. Residents will be contacted to make an appointment when vaccine becomes available. The Health Department currently is vaccinating high-contact critical workers, as well as residents over 65.
Cards and letters of encouragement for caregivers at KU Health System may be sent to Share Joy, care of Patient Relations, 4000 Cambridge St., Mailstop 1021, Kansas City, Kansas, 66160. Emails can be sent to [email protected].
Wyandotte County is under a mandatory mask and social distancing order.
Demolition was taking place on Sunday at the former Wyandotte County Courthouse annex at the northwest corner of 94th and State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. The former Schlitterbahn property area is being redeveloped into a youth sports complex. The former courthouse annex once housed many county offices including motor vehicle tags, the election office and the extension office. Before that, the building served as the county poor farm.Demolition was taking place on Sunday at the former Wyandotte County Courthouse annex at the northwest corner of 94th and State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas.Demolition was taking place on Sunday at the former Wyandotte County Courthouse annex at the northwest corner of 94th and State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas.Demolition was taking place on Sunday at the former Wyandotte County Courthouse annex at the northwest corner of 94th and State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Some debris was located to the north of the former courthouse annex.
Editor’s note: The former Wyandotte County Courthouse Annex at 94th and State Avenue, and the surrounding area, was the subject of several news stories in 2007. One of them from the Wyandotte West on Feb. 6, 2007, is reprinted below:
Boundaries of county annex cemetery determined
by Mary Rupert
More than 500 graves, mostly unmarked and unremembered, sit on the east side of the Wyandotte County Courthouse Annex property.
The annex at 94th and State Avenue, once a home and farm for the county’s poor, also contains a burial ground on county property for the indigent.
The graves were the site of an extensive investigation last year, in preparation for turning the property between 94th and 98th Streets over to the Schlitterbahn water park development, and before road improvements were made on 94th Street. As part of the agreement, the graves will not be moved.
“The gravesites are not to be touched,” Bob Roddy, Unified Government assistant county administrator, said last week. “They’re going to remain as is.”
Roddy said the county found old records describing where some of the unmarked gravesites were located, and field investigation was done to discover where other graves were located. Metal detectors were used to locate the perimeters of the burial grounds and some probing was done along the edges.
Noninvasive measures were used to discover gravesites.
“We’re extremely sensitive to it,” Roddy said. “The decision was made early that we weren’t going to disturb the graves.”
The issue of placing some sort of marker on the cemetery could be discussed in the future, he said.
The geophysicist hired by the Unified Government to explore the area has published a report on it, and has given a talk about it at a scientific conference in December in St. Louis, Mo. The lead archaeological investigator was Chris Schoen of the Louis Berger Group of Marion, Iowa.
In his report, geophysicist Geoffrey Jones of Minneapolis, Minn., noted that the cemetery was established in 1870 and was used until 1973. The number of total burials there is unknown, but 541 burials were recorded during the last quarter century of the cemetery’s use, the report stated.
The cemetery had an iron gate and a chain link fence at its entrance, but otherwise, its boundaries were not known, according to Jones’ report. Only two of the graves were marked.
The researchers used noninvasive geophysical techniques, including electrical resistance and magnetic gradiometer surveys, of parts of the cemetery, Jones reported. Archaeological techniques also were used.
The researchers concluded the cemetery was limited to the interior of the road loop and to the flat hilltop between the road loop and 94th Street. Another area containing burials was on higher ground between the eastern road of the cemetery and 94th Street, according to the report.
They used backhoes to strip 11 nearby areas that were unlikely to contain graves, according to the report. In those areas, 31 burials were identified, the report stated.
The older part of the cemetery contained shroud burials, while the newer portion contained wooden coffins, the report noted.
A lawsuit filed by a Wyandotte County resident to stop the annex from being torn down because of its historic value is still pending, according to Ken Moore, Unified Government attorney. He said he had not heard anything new about the lawsuit since Judge Muriel Harris stated last year that she could not hear it because she had a conflict of interest. Her husband serves on the Wyandotte County Fair Board. At the time the board was considering the property as a site for the county fair.
The Wyandotte County Fair Board has since approved a plan to hold the county fair at a temporary site at The Woodlands this year, although a permanent site has not yet been announced. County offices have already moved from the courthouse annex to other locations.
Roddy said he expects an announcement about activity to take place at the Schlitterbahn site within the next two to three months.
