School board OKs budget and Reading Roadmap grants
USD 457 approves a budget with a $1,122 payment to the district and accepts funding for the Kansas Reading Roadmap program. Grants of about $137k to $187k go to five Garden City elementary schools. The district also adds an online learning system PresenceLearning to address a shortage of speech language pathologists, with about 50 students to use it this year.
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Kansas
Sam Brownback
Abe Hubert
Gertrude Walker
Buffalo Jones
Victor Ornelas
Florence Wilson
Kansas Reading
Department of Children and Families
Garden City
Renee Scott
Scott
Steve Karlin
Ambi Salam
Brianna Lopez
USD 457
Wiseman granted immunity in fatal 2014 shooting case
State court ruled Wiseman had a basis to fear for his safety and Alexandra Escarcega during the Dec 6 2014 fatal shooting of Pascascio in the Dillons East lot. The judge found immunity applied though the state showed probable cause of a crime and that premeditation was not proven. The case faces a Court of Appeals decision within about 30 days.
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Alexandra Escarcega
Pascascio
Garden City
Dillons East
Kansas Ave
St. Catherine Hospital
Escarcega
Votypka
Finney
Nick Vrana
Cott
Lisa Taylor
Kansas Supreme Court Office of Judicial Administration
Court of Appeals
City to take over management director role eyed in study
Cincinnati firm Novak Consulting Group recommended a management director post for Big Pool. In other business, Stewart outlined costs at Core Fitness with internet and cable services averaging about 1000 dollars monthly for cardio machines with touch screens. He proposed cheaper Wi Fi to replace ethernet and coax connections and suggested possibly moving some equipment back to the downtown facility to recoup members and offer new options. Stewart noted a 36 month Cox Communications contract dating to Core Fitness opening in February 2015 with around 18 months left and warned about penalties if terminated. Further planning is needed before any action, and Core Fitness would continue operating. Marilyn Porter praised the idea as beneficial.
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Stewart
Core Fitness
GCRC
Cox Communications
Cox
Marilyn Porter
Blair seeks probation for loan to would-be bomber
In Topeka a group of about a dozen supporters urge U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree to give Blair probation rather than prison. Blair 29 pleaded guilty to conspiracy for lending $100 to John T Booker Jr who arranged a storage facility for suspected bomb making materials. the device was inert. Blair has Williams syndrome and faced up to five years. Letters from family and community members describe Blair as harmless and remorseful, urging mercy.
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John Booker Jr
Blair
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Daniel Crabtree
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John T. Booker Jr
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Fort Riley
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Alexander
Evan
Peterson
Alex
Jane
Thomas Blair
Jane Blair
Omar Hazim
Topeka Islamic Center
Hazim
Rexford McCommon
Fairlawn Church of the Nazarene
West Topeka
Pat Happer
Jefferson West Usd 340
Stiffler
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