Hoteliers seek split from Finney County bureau
Local hotel owners seek separation of the Finney County Convention and Tourism Bureau from the Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce. County leaders offered advice but took no action, while chamber records show the bureau has run since 1979 and faced questions about fiscal policy and events.
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Finney County Convention and Tourism Bureau
Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Finney County
Clifford Mayo
Amro Lamy
Clarion Inn
Garden City
Paul Joseph
Commission Chamber
First use of electronic voting at Garden City polls
Garden City polling at United Methodist Church for Districts 7 and 8 opened at 7 a.m. with light turnout, 16 early voters by 8:35 a.m. and few more by 9. Volunteers like Cleon Hanson and Abundio Munoz noted faster checks with electronic confirmation versus paper lists as city commissioners, GCCC board, and USD 457 board races drew voters.
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Garden City
United Methodist Church
Cleon Hanson
Abundio Munoz
Garden City Community College Board of Trustees
USD 457
Board of Education
Pat Veesart
GCCC
Kansas Small Business Development Center
Veesart
Gccc Board
USD 457 Votes to Eliminate District Position
USD 457's school board on Monday night formally eliminated a district administrative position in another cost cutting move driven by state funding reductions. Superintendent Rick Atha warned students will be hurt by continuing budget cuts as the district faces nearly seven million dollars in lost state funding over three years and an additional one million in cuts.
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USD 457
s_ school board
Rick Atha
Kansas
Grass fire damage in Stevens and Cimarron Valley area
Haskell County Emergency Management released a damage estimate for Sundays grass fire along the railroad in Stevens County. About 9 600 acres burned one home destroyed two unoccupied trailers twelve outbuildings lost the Cimarron Valley Railroad bridge west of Satanta north of Kansas Highway 56 was destroyed. Remaining track damage to be assessed See Damage Page A5
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Haskell County
Stevens County
Cimarron Valley Railroad
Satanta
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Laurie Sisk
Finney County Public Library
Claudia Ward
Donna Collins
Garden City Telegram
Kenneth Johnson
Johnson
USD
Board
Kiblinger
Jerome P. Curry
Gctelegram
Schwieterman Inc
Chicago
Annie
Isashares
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