Garden City High Hall of Fame seeks nominees
The Garden City High School Hall of Fame Committee invites nominations for two 2005 inductees who must be GCHS graduates. Nominations due by 5 p.m. March 25 at the Educational Support Center with forms also available in multiple local offices and online.
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Garden City High School
N. Main
Garden City Public Schools
Fleming St
Garden City Telegram
N. Seventh St
Finney County Public Library
Educational Support Center
Garden City
Gchs Hall of Fame
Finney County
Schools rely on local sales taxes amid court ruling
Kansas Supreme Court offered no guidance on special local sales taxes for schools. Coffeyville, Salina and Johnson County residents approved sales tax bonds or appropriations to fund districts, reduce property taxes, and pay salaries, with critics warning of unfair advantages and dependence on sales tax revenues.
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Coffeyville
Salina
Johnson County
Kansas Supreme Court
House
Doug Mays
Kansas Association of School Boards
Wes Dreyer
Coffeyville Unified School District
Dreyer
Kansas
Mike Soetaert
Salina Unified School District
Soetaert
Tim Rooney
Shawnee Mission Unified School District
Rat art creator keeps eight pet rats as inspiration
Garden City resident Phyllis Pickett, owner of eight pet rats for twenty years, turns her rat companions into artwork for shirts tattoos and sketches. Her work gains notice on Cox cable Pet Star with friend Carole Nelson and three rats appearing on the show.
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Phyllis Pickett
Garden City
Pickett
Canada
Cox
Pet Star
Carole Nelson
Ontario
Nelson
Josie
Mario Lopez
Nathaly Narose
Gatineau
Narose
Tekki
Kenneda
Lougie
Rival rallies on same sex marriage planned at Topeka Statehouse
Supporters and opponents plan rival 1:30 p.m. rallies at the Kansas Statehouse as legislators open the session. Clergy seek a April ballot for a ban, with about 250 ministers at the rotunda and 400 expected on the south lawn.
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Topeka
Kansas
Statehouse
Terry Fox
Wichita
Immanuel Baptist Church
Tiffany Muller
Muller
Fox
Senate
Co-ops Consider Merger In Southwest Kansas
After a yearlong study a potential merger between the Dighton and Garden City co-ops moves closer. Informational meetings are planned in January for stockholders as votes loom under state guidelines. Dighton faces losses of 511000 in 2003 and 755000 in 2004, prompting discussion of the change.
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Garden City
John McClelland
Garden City Co-op
Kansas Cooperative Marketing Act
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Garden City Co-op Board of Directors
McClelland
Dighton Co-op Board of Directors
Co-Op
Annette Wilson
Kansas
Tom Mulville
Vance
Louise Ehmke
Dighton High School
American Legion
N. Sixth St
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