Pipeline pumps in 400 workers on long distance gas project
Garden City hosts more than 400 workers over the last three months as a 380 mile gas pipeline is built from Cheyenne to Greensburg. Cheyenne Plains Gas Co. LLC and El Paso run the project with U.S. Pipeline as primary contractor. About 410 contractors plus 40 inspectors are on site amid a rotating crew of surveyors, welders, and testers.
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Yvonne King
Bald Knob
Ark
Bruce
Prairie Winds
Jennie Barker
Eaepeyinen Weller
Cheyenne
Wyo
Scott
Lane
Finney
Greensburg
Cheyenne Plains Gas Co. LLC
Colorado Interstate Gas
Colorado Springs
Colo
el Paso
Herman Medina
Scott Lake
U.S. Pipeline
King
Finney County readers vote on US 50 expansion sales tax
Finney County voters would decide in November on a quarter cent sales tax starting April 2005 to raise about 3.83 million dollars local match for a 54 million highway widening project from two to four lanes west to the Finney/Kearny line. Garden City and Holcomb officials plan to dedicate their share. total rates would be 7.3 percent in Garden City and 6.8 percent in Finney County and Holcomb. The tax would sunset after funds are collected in about three years as KDOT engineers extend the project toward the county line with U.S. 83 overpasses planned at Big Lowe Road and access points at several roads, while some roads would close.
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Finney County
Kearny County
Holcomb
Big Lowe Road
Cliff Mayo
Pete Olson
KDOT
Kearny
Garden City
Holcomb City
U.S. 83
VFW
Chmelka
Anderson
Little Lowe
IBP
Sherlock
Eighth Street
Scott City approves LOB by one vote in USD 466
Scott County USD 466’s local option budget increases to 25 percent of the general fund, passing 795 to 794 after a recount. Superintendent Dean Katt says relief comes as the district gains about 160000 in new facilities money from the state, with about 9.90 extra yearly tax for a 69000 home. The funding will support teacher salaries and a new reading series, though new facilities funds depend on occupancy timing.
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Scott City
Scott County
USD 466
Dean Katt
Katt
Bilingual education viewed as asset says USC expert
More than 100 educators attended Garden City Community College as Steven Krashen of USC urged that bilingual education speeds second language growth. He cited California’s 1998 dismantling of its bilingual programs as evidence of mixed results and praised libraries and sustained reading programs as critical to lifelong literacy.
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Kansas State University
Steven Krashen
University of Southern California
Garden City Community College
California
Garden City
City and County Question FCEDC Effectiveness
Garden City and Finney County commissioners discussed the Finney County Economic Development Corp. FCEDC, established in 1988, amid concerns about structure and efficiency raised by Harold Orosco. Officials debated funding, separate director options, and the need for a well organized, outcome driven meeting with a facilitator.
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Garden City
Finney County
Finney County Economic Development Corp
Harold Orosco
FCEDC
Irv Stephens
Jeff Whitham
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