New Year Holiday Closures For Garden City And Holcomb
Post offices in Garden City and Holcomb close Sunday and Monday for the New Year holiday with business resuming Tuesday. School closings include Garden City USD 457 and Holcomb USD 363 through Monday with classes resuming Tuesday Jan 3. Garden City Community College closes until Wednesday Jan 4. Several public offices and organizations also close on Sunday and Monday, while some close Monday only.
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Finnup Center For Conservation Education
United Methodist Mexican- American Ministries
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Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce
Usda Service Center
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Bank of the West
First National Bank of Holcomb
Garden City State Bank
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Landmark National Bank Security Savings Bank
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc
Mental health center lands $50,000 housing grant
Area Mental Health Center received a 50000 rental housing grant to aid residents of Finney Ford and Grant counties with severe and persistent mental illness. The grant, Tenant Based Rental Assistance, requires income at or below 60 percent of area median and documented illness. Applications open Jan 2 8 am to 5 pm at Garden City 531 Campus Drive. Caroline Unruh at 275 9434 or cunruh area mhc org.
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Grant Counties
Kansas Housing Resources Corporation
Garden City
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Caroline Unruh
Cunruh
Areamhc.org
Garden City fiddlers meeting canceled for New Year weekend
The Garden City Fiddlers Pickers and Singers meeting scheduled for 4 p.m. Saturday has been canceled due to the New Year holiday weekend.
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Nursing homes cited for few deficiencies in inspections
Kansas Advocates for Better Care named two area facilities with five or fewer deficiencies across the last three inspections. High Plains Retirement Village in Lakin and Bethel Home in Montezuma were highlighted as the recognized facilities.
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Wyandotte County water park approved for STAR financing
State officials sign off on up to 225 million in STAR bonds to back a 412 million Schlitterbahn Vacation Village on a 300 acre site in western Wyandotte County. The project, near Interstate 435 and Kansas Speedway, aims for 2009 opening and 3,000 jobs, with a riverwalk, 4,000 foot channel, shops, a marine park, and 300 hotel rooms.
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Dennis Hays
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Teen shoots mother with pellet gun in Christmas gift case
A Salina woman, Elizabeth White, died after a gunshot wound to the heart fired by her 14 year old son using a pellet rifle he received as a Christmas gift from his grandfather. Police ruled the incident a justifiable homicide. White fled the scene, later dying after a Wichita hospital emergency operation.
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Landen
Critics say KCC order on Westar rates will be expensive
Westar Energy faces higher bills for 655000 customers after the Kansas Corporation Commission approved a $3 million annual rate increase while allowing pass through of fuel and environmental costs. Critics predict at least $50 million more next year, with residential Northeast Kansas seeing about $8 more per month on average, while Wichita and southern regions may save about $3.47 monthly. Springe suggests appealing parts of the order. Westar may seek reconsideration.
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Overland Park
Zakoura
Karla Olsen
Olsen
Kansas
Wichita
Little Apple ball drop goes national on New Year's Eve
Aggieville in Manhattan Kansas hosts a family friendly New Year’s Eve ball drop mirroring Times Square. Fox News Channel will televise segments to a national audience as 9,000 attendees are expected, with 4,800 the prior year. Bill Snyder will push the 5 foot red plexiglass ball into descent amid laser shows tributes and fireworks near Kansas State University.
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New York
Paroled: James Elder granted release for 1973 Topeka murder
James Elder, 50, convicted of second degree murder in 1973 stabbing death of Barbara Butler, has been granted parole and is under supervised release planning at Lansing Correctional Facility. Butler, 23, was stabbed 23 times near her Topeka home and died later in hospital.
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Kansas Parole Board
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Lansing
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Bear attacks sheriff's car in Neosho County
In Chanute AP report, a family's pet bear repeatedly escaped its cage and attacked a deputy's patrol car on December 19. Deputy Matt Bogle confronted the bear, which followed to the patrol car and damaged the mirror before the bear released. The bear then went missing again. sheriff Jim Keath forwarded the incident details to the county attorney.
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Neosho County
Jim Keath
Matt Bogle
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