De Soto FlexRide numbers surging with gas prices

July 21, 2008

Johnson County Transit planning manager Cody Christensen said the two-day-a-week local system had 161 riders had in June, nearly double the 88 recorded in the same month a year earlier

De Soto Living

USD 232 2008-2009 budget raises levy 2.5 mills

July 23, 2008

The De Soto Board of Education Monday approved 4-1 to publish the 2008-09 proposed budget that includes about $16 million more in expenditures than last year’s budget. Board member Bill Fletcher dissented; board members Randy Johnson and Jim Thomas were absent from the meeting. The board will have a budget hearing at its next meeting at 6 p.m. Aug. 4.

Local news

De Soto’s population grows at 2.2 percent, Census Bureau estimates

July 16, 2008

De Soto grew by 118 resident in the latest annual estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau, which released figures last week of population trends that coincided with the start of the nationwide housing slump.

Local government

Revenue shortfall leads to CIP rescheduling in De Soto’s 2009 budget

July 16, 2008 · Updated 7 days, 4 hours ago

Downtown streetscape project delayed

Sports

All the nation is a stage

July 17, 2008

What may be De Soto’s best will go on to face the nation’s best.

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