Benefit for Area Residents Rescheduled at St Dominic Church
A benefit auction planned for Blake Hill Dwayne Ryan Justin Trussel Mitchel Braun and Joe Pena at St Dominic Catholic Church will be rescheduled. Organizers are arranging a new date and will announce details as soon as set.
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St. Dominic Catholic Church
Blake Hill
Dwayne Ryan
Justin Trussel
Mitchel Braun
Joe Pena
Sheriffs and Troopers Run Sobriety Checklane in Finney
The Finney County Sheriff's Office and Kansas Highway Patrol will conduct a sobriety checklane in Finney County from 11 30 p m Saturday to 2 30 a m Sunday Extra deputies and troopers will be on duty to reduce highway injuries and deaths by targeting impaired drivers
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Finney County
GCCC spring revue delivers vaudeville nostalgia
The box office opens for School Daze at Garden City Community College. About 50 Southwest Kansas residents and students rehearse vaudeville acts from Chaplin to the Andrews Sisters, with big band swing and 1950s rock. Performances start 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Theater. Admission is 5 dollars. Box office hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 hour before each show.
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Garden City Community College
Southwest
Kansas
Pauline Joyce Fine Arts
Fine Arts
Woman in missing girl hoax to be released
Donna Walker 36, who pleaded guilty to impersonating the missing girl Shannon Sherrill, is scheduled for release from Boone County Jail after nine months. She received time served and good behavior credit and will begin four years of probation for the hoax that affected Sherrill’s family.
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Lebanon
Ind
Donna Walker
Topeka
Boone County
Jeff Edens
Walker
Indiana
Kansas
Shannon Sherrill
Sherrill
Thorntown
Indianapolis
Four FHSU students face murder charges in Johnson case
Witness says Llamas used a baseball bat in the University Apartments parking lot assault that killed Clint W. Johnson, as Deary agrees to plead guilty to aggravated battery and testify against Lopez, Llamas, and Ross in a case also naming Smithville, San Diego, Chula Vista, and Wylie residents.
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Clint W. Johnson
Healy
Johnson
Wichita
Llamas
Lopez
Ross
Deary
John Bork
University Apartments
Jaime Lopez
Bork
Ellis County
Tom Drees
Bernal Earns Milken Award For Spanish Classroom Dedication
A veteran GCHS Spanish teacher, Bernal, known for photo albums of students and hands on involvement, receives the Milken award. Interims principal Kraig Dexter and student Reyna Baeza laud his impact, noting his support for fundraisers and exams. He speaks of inspiring students to pursue Spanish, while balancing class energy with high expectations.
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GCHS
Kraig Dexter
Bernal
Dexter
Reyna Baeza
Milken
Baeza
United Methodist Church
Ramiro Carreon
Carreon
Costa Rica
Advocates push for more state funding amid shifted school costs
Kansas education lobbyists released figures showing local option taxes have risen by 468 million over 12 years, matching the inflation gap the state would have covered. They urge a House plan to boost state education spending by 155 million while preserving local tax authority.
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Topeka
Hns
Mark Tallman
Kansas Association of School Boards
Tallman
Melvin Neufeld
R-Ingalls
House
Dwayne Umbarger
Rthayer
Senate Education Committee
Kansas
Senate
Umbarger
Dave Kerr
Hutchinson
Kerr
Kansas Agriculture Network
Anthony Hensley
Kansas wheat tour finds poorer wheat heading west
Kansas wheat tour members report declining wheat conditions as they move west through parched counties. Brett Myers of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers describes initial yields of 40 to 50 bushels per acre near Manhattan, then notes thinner stands and drier soil in Rooks County and beyond, with probes checking soil moisture at 3 to 4 inches.
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Kansas
Wichita
Manhattan
Brett Myers
Kansas Association of Wheat Growers
Myers
U.S
Rooks County
Oberlin
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