New Year Closings Drop on Local Institutions
Lee Richardson Zoo and Finney County Public Library close January 1. Finney County offices and several banks seal for New Year. Garden City and Holcomb schools also pause to January 4 or 9, with other area businesses operating holiday hours. Garden City Telegram notes no paper and offices closed January 1. Authorities list post offices closed and local banks shuttered on New Year’s Day.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
Finney County Public Library
Finney County — Historical Society
Hastings
Wal-Mart
Dillons Grocery Stores
Finney County
Garden City
Garden City Public Schools
Holcomb Public Schools
Garden City Telegram
Garden City Post
Holcomb Post
Garden City Community College
Sequoyah Theatres
Commerce Bank
Citizens State Bank
Commercial Federal Bank
First National Bank of Holcomb
Farm Credit of
Home National Bank
Blood Drive at Dighton Legion Hall January 16 2001
The Dighton American Legion Hall hosts a Red Cross blood drive on January 16 2001 from 12 30 p.m. to 5 30 p.m. Call (316) 397 2886 for more information or to make an appointment. January is National Volunteer Blood Donor Month by the Red Cross.
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Dighton
American Legion
American Red Cross
Red Cross
County near deal to lease jail beds
Butler County officials near a lease with the U S Marshal Service to house federal prisoners at the new $14 million jail. Beds are expected to fetch 50 to 60 dollars per inmate, saving taxpayers if all beds are filled. Negotiations with the marshal service aim to finalize a lease by February and finish the jail within two years.
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EL Dorado
Butler County
U.S. Marshal’s Service
Neal Parrish
Randy Doll
Church youth group leader arrested in Lawrence
A 33-year-old Tonganoxie man who led a church youth group was arrested Thursday on two counts of sodomy eight counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child one count of taking indecent liberties and one count of hazing related to at least five teenage boys at his church. Bond was set at $20000.
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Lawrence
Tonganoxie
Douglas County
Christine Tonkovich
Mike Pattrick
Tonganoxie United Methodist Church
Pattrick
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
The Garden City Telegram Error Policy Note
The Garden City Telegram states its policy to correct errors and provides a contact number 275-8500 for reporting mistakes in the publication. The notice directs readers to call for error corrections.
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Garden City
Grain prices at Garden City Co op fall short later
Grain prices listed show Wheat at 2.90 dollars per bushel, Corn 2.22, Soybeans 4.63 at Garden City Co op with minor discrepancies in the OCR text. Prices reflect commodity market notes and local trading quotes.
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Garden City Co-op
Kansas towns embrace female sheriffs in three counties
In Kansas three women Daina Durham Janet Harrington and Bethanie Popejoy serve as sheriffs in Jackson Elk and Hamilton counties. The trio embodies a shift from old west stereotypes as Kansas ties Virginia and West Virginia for most female sheriffs while 29 of 3096 nationwide are women.
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Holton
Bat Masterson
Bill Tilghman
Kansas
Daina Durham
Janet Harrington
Bethanie Popejoy
Durham
Jackson County
Harrington
Elk County
Popejoy
Hamilton County
Colorado
Virginia
West Virginia
National Sheriffs’ Association
Kansas Sheriff’s Association
Hutchinson
Dole Backing Graves for Bush Transportation Secretary
Kansas political observers say Gov Bill Graves remains a serious Cabinet contender as Bob Dole signals willingness to campaign for him. Graves has not asked for lobbying and Cheney was not asked about the issue in a recent call.
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Topeka
Bob Dole
Bill Graves
Bush
Dole
Kansas
GOP
Graves
Bal Harbour
Fla
Bill
Labor, Energy and Transportation
Transportation Industry
Jennifer Dunn
Washington
Spencer Abraham
Michigan
Elaine L. Chao
Mitch McConnell
Kentucky
Poe
Pete McGill
Mark Parkinson
Don Brown
Trent LeDoux
Holton
McLean
LeDoux
2Nd Congressional District
Kansas Water Office
Philadelphia
Dick Cheney
Infected Christmas trees prompt gypsy moth warning
Kansas officials warn that Scotch pine and Fraser fir trees from Michigan may carry gypsy moth eggs. Do not dump trees in wooded areas. bury, landfill, or chip them to prevent larvae next spring. Dispose of holiday trees responsibly to avoid habitat damage and pesticide incentives.
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Topeka
Kansas Agriculture
Midwest
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Michigan
Kansas
Tom Sim
KDA
Sim
Agriculture Department
Lisa Taylor
Message in Pencil on German V-2 Sparks War Memory
A pencil marking reading "Kramatorium" on a V-2 rocket being restored for the Kansas Cosmosphere prompts reflections on slave labor behind Nazi weapons. The artifact, from Aberdeen Proving Grounds, will join the U S Air Force Museum display after restoration by John Guernsey’s firm in partnership with Cosmosphere.
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John Guernsey
Augusta
Guernsey
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
Hutchinson
U.S. Air Force Museum
Dayton
Ohio
Jim Remar
Cosmosphere
Air Force
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Maryland
Space Museum
Snow likely in parts of Kansas over weekend forecast
The National Weather Service forecast cloudy skies with a chance of light snow in western areas and flurries in the central and eastern regions. Daytime highs range from 20 in the northeast to near 40 in the southwest, with frigid overnight lows from zero to 5 above in the northeast and around 20 in the west. Snow chances continue Sunday west and central with possible flurries east. highs will run in the teens east and the 20s west.
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Topeka
Kansas
National Weather Service
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