Liberal to Host Sampler Festival in 2012 13
Liberal, Kansas, will host the Kansas Sampler Festival at Light Park on the first full weekend of May 2012 and 2013. Abilene and Wamego were finalists. Kansas Sampler Foundation staff visited each city. The festival showcases what Kansas offers with 150 communities represented and attendance of 5,000 to 8,000.
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Liberal
Abilene and
Wamego
Kansas Sampler Foundation
Light Park
Windsor Hotel Seeks Vote in This Place Matters Contest
The Finney County Preservation Alliance owners of Garden City’s Windsor Hotel seek $25 000 in the This Place Matters challenge. Community members can vote at preservationnation.org by selecting Kansas on the community map before September 15. Proceeds would fund restoration of the Windsor Hotel.
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Finney County Preservation Alliance
Garden City
Windsor Hotel
Preservationnation.org
Kansas
Preservation Alliance
Trial set for Westboro member over Nebraska funeral protest
PAPILLION NEB AP A member of Westboro Baptist Church faces trial on disturbing the peace and negligent child abuse charges linked to a 2007 protest outside a Nebraska soldier’s funeral. Phelps-Roper pleads not guilty and seeks dismissal, claiming free speech rights and permit compliance.
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Neb
Kansas
Westboro Baptist Church
Nebraska
Phelps-Roper
Sarpy
National
State expands aid as Kansas homeless students rise
Kansas schools face a growing homeless student population. The Kansas Department of Education cites 3,600 homeless children in 2006-07 rising to about 8,500 last year, an 88 percent increase and a national fourth-place rise. The Lawrence Journal World notes U.S. totals near 1 million, up 41 percent.
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Kansas
Kansas Department of Education
Lawrence Journal-World
Brownback
Tom Holland
Baldwin City
Mark Parkinson
Kathleen Sebelius
Problems caught with jury glitch in Kansas counties
Hutchinson News reports a New Mexico based software maker altered the random juror selection program and sent a fix to Sherman County. Jurors with last names starting with A B and Z were drawn more often in some counties due to the glitch.
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Hutchinson
Kansas
Hutchinson News
Justice Systems
Sherman County
School funding key to governors race in Kansas
In Kansas a governor race centers on school funding with rivals Brownback and Holland proposing reforms to sustain education while tackling court rulings. Brownback advocates a new formula funded locally, while Holland pushes smarter statewide management and curbs on tax exemptions to maintain school quality and equity across districts.
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Brownback
Kansas
Holland
Kansas City
Johnson County
Some Kansas cities raise seat belt fines above state law
Lenexa faces $60 charge for not buckling up as cities like Kansas City Kansas Olathe and Wichita keep $30 fines under the old law. The state sets $5 to $10 fines with costs, while local authorities may impose stricter penalties. Traffic experts deem higher local fines a positive step though critics call the system costly and arbitrary.
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Lenexa
Kansas Cities
Kansas City Star
Kansas City
Kan
Olathe
Wichita
Kansas
Insurance Institute For Highway Safety
Phil Widener
Sue Dickey
Old Bill of Garden City Society Icon and His Quiet Death
The tale follows Pedro Rugiero known as Old Bill a quiet Italian immigrant who died by suicide in 1911 on a Santa Fe train near Garden City Kansas. His mummified body drew 50 000 visitors over 25 years in Garland Funeral Home where Bryant Garnand kept him on display until a 1938 fire ended the exhibit.
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Garden City
Dodge City
Santa Fe
Pedro Rugiero
Rugiero
America
Kansas
Darin Bradstreet
Garland Funeral Home
Bill
Pietro
Laurie Oshel
Finney County Museum
Charleston
A.R. Clark
Bryant Garnand
Hutchinson News
Mary Rintoul
Rintoul
David E. Rintoul
Bradstreet
Garland
United States
Italy
Garnand
San Francisco
Bob Garnand
Conard
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