by Shea Smith \/ photo courtesy of Senator Marshall\u2019s Press Office<\/p>\n
Friday saw U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) in Junction City and Manhattan to discuss support services for military families, inaugurate a new school, and highlight critical infrastructure improvements across Kansas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He held a roundtable where he spoke about his own family\u2019s military service and emphasized the importance of supporting military families during deployments. Participants discussed mental health resources for military dependents, school-based support services, telehealth access, and opportunities for future federal grant funding.<\/p>\n
Following the roundtable, Senator Marshall attended the ribbon-cutting of the new USD 475 Early Childhood Center in Junction City. The new facility will centralize early childhood services for the district, expand access to free pre-kindergarten opportunities, and provide modern classrooms and specialized developmental services for children and families. It was built at no extra cost to local families.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud of getting federal dollars to pay for this entire beautiful facility, $35 million, with no mill levy increase here for the folks that live in Junction City,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n
Federal efforts supporting Head Start, Impact Aid, and child care programs serving military-connected and rural communities was also discussed.<\/p>\n
In Manhattan, Senator Marshall attended the Foote Cattle Company steak feed, where the focus was on herd health, beef quality, and market conditions.<\/p>\n
This was followed by a USDA Rural Development check presentation supporting wastewater infrastructure improvements in Riley County. The project will help modernize sewer and wastewater systems while supporting future growth and long-term infrastructure reliability for the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Shea Smith \/ photo courtesy of Senator Marshall\u2019s Press Office Friday saw U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-227829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}