Highway plan split aims to ease access to US 50
Finney County and Garden City officials discuss three highway options to widen US 50 from the county line to US 83. Plans include adding lanes or building a new corridor, all with interchanges at key roads and possible future freeway conversion. Costs range from over 54 to 64 million dollars, with public input ongoing and a decision expected after a planning study this summer.
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Big Lowe Road
U.S. 838
Chmelka
Ritchel and
Anderson Roads
U.S. 50
VFW
Sherlock
Little Lowe
IBP
Finney County
Pete Olson
Holcomb
Ron Conway
Big Lowe
Dick Riegel
Kansas City, Mo
Burns and McDonnell
Jerry Davis
Anderson Road
VFW Road
Anderson
Bob Halloran
Maple Street
Olson
Big Lawe
Brian Shaw
Harold Mai
Mai
KDOT
Finney/Kearny county
Ron Kaufman
Scott King
Garden City
Halloran
Dan Bailes
Value Motors
al Knoll
Greg Knoll
Harold Knoll
Rob Stork
Dan Petrie
Dan
Petrie
Kaufman
Marines Press Toward Baghdad as Iraqi Forces Fight In Urban Standoff
US troops push toward Baghdad amid signs Iraqi units may crumble. Iraqi authorities vow to hold, shifting some units into urban combat while Marines advance on the capital. In Kut, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines clash with fighters. three Marines wounded and about 30 Iraqis killed in a death by action charge against tanks.
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3Rd Battalion
4Th Marines
Kut
Tigris
B.P McCoy
Attack on Baghdad airport by US forces begins
US forces launched an assault on Saddam International Airport as they sweep toward Baghdad. Artillery and tracer fire lit the sky while hundreds of Army vehicles moved west of the city to secure a bridge at Musayyib amid reports of heavy combat and debris along highways.
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Iraq
Saddam International Airport
the Euphrates
3Rd Infantry Division
Associated Press
Musayyib
U.S
Kansas State University
Siberia
Jaax
Soviet Union
Deerfield Officials See Resignations Amid Transitions
Superintendent Velharticky and elementary principal resign after five years in Deerfield. Velharticky departs June 30 after two years in Deerfield, with prior experience in Salina St. John’s Military Academy and Nickerson. Roth, the incoming superintendent, will be paid 70 000 salary plus mileage and benefits and aims to improve academics while preserving activities amid district funding pressures. Allen received a 57 000 base offer with health benefits. Combs endorses both Roth and Allen as strong administrative choices for the district.
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Velharticky
Kansas
Salina
St. John’s Military Academy
Nickerson
Combs
Roth
Allen
Stanton County
Healy Usd
Fort Hays State University
Newman University
Kansas State University
Wheat shipments to Iraqi people from Galveston
Senator Brownback notes bulk winter wheat bound for Iraq will feed about 2.3 million people for a month and may largely come from Kansas. He says Kansas markets benefit from any wheat movement. Signups for federal disaster aid begin June 6, with total drought relief at 3.1 billion dollars.
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Galveston
Texas
Kansas
Brownback
County intensifies plans for agroterrorism readiness
County officials update emergency plans with some counties already implementing agroterrorism measures and others still developing theirs. State and federal assets would be deployed within 24 to 48 hours, while Finney County updates its 1998 plan to cover foreign animal disease.
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Teagarden
Finney County
Keith Henderson
Finney County Emergency Management
Henderson
Homeland Security
Jerry Jaax
Food Science Institute
Kansas State University
Great Britain
United States
Kansas Farm Bureau
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Kansas
KBI
Farm Bureau
Mike Matson
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Finney County Fairgrounds
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East
Kansas Avenue
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