Kansas Girl Scouts sell millions of cookies
Girl Scout cookie sales in Kansas rose 7.6 percent from last year with nearly 1.5 million boxes sold across 80 counties from January 22 to March 18. Garden City totals reached 30,216 boxes, while 9,165 scouts participated and 15,328 boxes were donated to the Cookie Share Program.
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Chandra Daffer
Garden City
Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland
Daffer
Kansas
Kansas Food Bank
Catholic Charities
McConnell Air Force Base
Kansas National Guard
Shelly Chenoweth
Wichita
Girl Scouts
Girl Scouting
Roadwork closes Third Street near bypass in KC traffic
KDOT says widening U S Highway 50 400 to four lanes from Holcomb to Garden City resumes with Third Street north of the bypass set to close for up to two weeks. North side of the Third Street intersection with the highway closes Tuesday, reopens by April 26 weather permitting. South side stays open.
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Holcomb
Garden City
Third Street
Kansas Department of Transportation
KDOT
VFW
Kirk Hutchinson
Craig Schlott
USD 457 Board Sets Special Meeting on Personnel
A special USD 457 Board of Education meeting is scheduled for 5 30 PM Monday in the Educational Support Center board room at 1205 Fleming St. The agenda lists non elected personnel and their contractual obligations and may include an executive session.
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USD 457 Board of Education
Fleming St
GCCC to honor soldiers with on campus memorial
Garden City Community College Leadership Academy and Welding Club unite to unveil a steel Lexan memorial at 1:30 p.m. Friday beside the main campus flag pole. The 42 inch high display will bear a steel plate with engraved inscriptions and magnetic name plaques, honoring soldiers sailors airmen and notable Americans.
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Garden City Community College Leadership Academy
Gccc Welding Club
Leadership Academy
Samantha Scott
F College
County to discuss aerial fireworks sale at next meeting
Finney County commissioners will consider permitting aerial fireworks, currently banned in county limits, when they meet Monday. Debra Hoffman-Mader, who runs a local stand, argues neighbors travel to buy them and return to Garden City to set them off. City officials indicated openness to discussion if county approves, while fire chief notes past fires have declined since moving fireworks into city limits.
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Finney County
Debra Hoffman-Mader
Garden City
Hoffman-Mader
Allen Shelton
Shelton
Ninth St
Gctelegram.com
Holcomb USD 363 to fill vacant PE health coach post
Holcomb USD 363 will fill the open physical education and health teacher and head boys basketball coach position at Holcomb High School during Monday's board meeting. Superintendent Demitry Evancho said a candidate name would be released after the meeting. The district also noted a potential personnel action and discussed a $120,000 drop in state aid per pupil for 2011. The 7:30 pm meeting at 305 Wiley St. Holcomb includes three closed sessions on student matters and employment.
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Holcomb
Demitry Evancho
Scott Stegman
Holcomb High School
HHS
Jarrod Stoppel
Stegman
Stoppel
USD 368
USC 363
Evancho
Wiley St
Kansas bioscience agency faces audit amid gov concern
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback pushes for an independently run audit of the Bioscience Authority amid questions on finances and spending. The board sanctioned an external audit but officials spar over control and access, as a Johnson County DA investigation looms and legislators seek accountability.
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Topeka
Kansas
Sam Brownback
Kansas Bioscience Authority
Brownback
Secretary of Agriculture
John Carlin
State Senate Commerce Committee
Top Authority
Johnson County
Kansas City-area
Olathe
Carlin
Tom Thornton
Senate Committee
Bioscience Authority
KRA
Senate
Anthony Hensley
Hensley
Senate Commerce Committee
Susan Wagle
Wichita
Wagle
Thornton
Chris McMullin
KBA
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GCCC
Bers
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Pam Caldwell
Gccc Endowment Association
Dan Delgado
Grace Donecker
Cindy Jarmer
Southwest Kansas Regional
Hector Morillo
Robin Newland
Cricket Turley
Jennifer Unger
Lachele Greathouse
Cathy McKinley
David Rupp
Jean Warta
Charlie Bahntge
Tyrel Berry
Scott City
Abraham Escobedo
Paul Jackson
Allison New
Tom Sanjuan
Deerfield
Jacob Seyferth
Shelby Stapel
Kurt Wenzel
Devin Wackeria
Armed Services
Juani
Indianapolis Zoo
Shingo
Zoo
USD 363
Bioscience Agency
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