SALINA, Kan. (KSNW) – Starting next week, you can walk along downtown Salina with an alcoholic drink in hand.

The city’s common consumption area begins Sept. 1. People 21 and older can buy alcohol from licensed, participating businesses and drink it in the designated area.

"Maybe somebody had dinner and drinks across the way at a restaurant or bar, and they're now going to make their way down to the theatre for a show, but they want to stop at your gallery on the way, you can decide," Lauren Driscoll, Salina Director of Community and Development Services, said. "You can take that drink with you and enjoy our sculpture tour, and the local art, and our local murals. You can visit one of our plazas and look at our landscaping and our planters. You can meet some friends, you know that kind o

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