Cemetery tour reveals local history on empty lot
Finney County history tale centers on Third and Mary streets where a Garden City man allegedly ordered bodies moved from a plot. Workers supposedly buried only dirt in caskets, leaving about 24 bodies believed buried at Valley View Cemetery. See Cemetery, Page A5.
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Johnetta Hebrlee
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center
Valley View Cemetery
Hebrlee
Finney County
Third and Mary Streets
Finney County Historical Society
Garden City
James Hahn
Finney County Historical Museum
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate School
Kansas Senate widens funding plan to bar Common Core use
Republicans in the Kansas Senate added a provision to block public schools from implementing multistate Common Core reading and math standards through June 2017 while pushing the education funding package. The vote followed debates urging unity on school funding and drew criticism from conservatives who oppose the standards as federal overreach.
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Topeka
Kansas
Senate
Terry Bruce
Nickerson
State Board of Education
Dennis Pyle
Hiawatha
Governors
Terry Forsyth
Kansas National Education Association
Garden City Hall will induct Reed and Heard in 2014
Janet Reed a 1975 GCHS graduate and longtime Garden City resident will be honored as local inductee. Alex Heard, a 1975 GCHS graduate and former editor at Wired and Outside magazine, will be inducted as out of town inductee. Induction ceremony set for May 16 at 7:30 p.m. in GCHS Commons.
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Garden City High School Hall of Fame
Janet Reed
Alex Heard
Garden City High School
Reed
GCHS
St. Mary of the Plains
Fort Hays State University
Garden City
Order of the Eastern Star
Finney County Preservation Alliance
Friends of
Lee Richardson Zoo
National Association of Secondary School Principals
Quality Performance
Kansas Department of Education
Southwest Kansas Music Educator’s Association
Heard
Vanderbilt University
Outside Magazine
America
United States
Willie McGee
Wired
New York Times
the New Republic
Slate
Buffalo Way Blvd
Weather Outlook Shows Sunshine Then Clouds
Today brings sunny skies with a high near 58 and a low around 32. Saturday mixes clouds and sun with a high near 59 and a low about 36. Details on page A8.
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Tombstone
Seagle
Brad Nading
Maveche
Reed and Heard
Gchs Hall
Hall
Schwieterman Inc
Chicago
Annie
Garden City Co-op
Auy
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