Martin Luther King Day closings list
Finney County Public Library and Finney County Historical Society close January 15. Garden City and Holcomb offices also close, with Garden City Post Office suspending mail January 15. Schools and theatres vary, with Garden City Public Schools open and Sequoyah Theatres open. Banks close January 15.
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Finney County Public Library
Finney County Historical Society
Finney County
Garden City
Garden City Public Schools
Holcomb Public Schools
Garden City Post Office
Holcomb
Garden City Community College
Sequoyah Theatres
Man Found Dead In Burned Van Near Ulysses Kansas
Grant County deputies found Kenneth E. Dickerson 44 of Satanta dead beside a totally burned 1990 Pontiac van four miles east of Ulysses. No foul play or self harm suspected. Investigators await DNA results and further details as they review the scene.
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Grant County Sheriff’s Department
Kenneth E. Dickerson
Ulysses
Grant County
Dickerson
Satanta
Lance Babcock
Babcock
Martin Luther King Day Ceremony at Garden City CC
A Martin Luther King Jr Day observance will be held Monday from 10 a.m. to noon in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building auditorium on Garden City Community College campus. The event is free and open to the public. The keynote speaker is Sheyann Webb Christburg, who met King as a child and co authored Selma Lord Selma now a Disney film.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Pauline Joyce
Partners in Education program grants open for four institutions
Garden City High School Holcomb Lakin Deerfield and Garden City Community College continue accepting grant applications for the Partners in Education program. Deadline for requests is January 26. For mission statement details contact Ann Price at Garden City Company, 316-276-3246.
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Garden City
Holcomb
Lakin and Deerfield
Garden City Community College
Garden City Company
Ann Price
Burglars Loot Salina Gun Shop For Firearms
In Salina, thieves broke into Cleve's Marine and Gun Shop between closing Thursday and opening Friday, taking 75 handguns four rifles and three shotguns. Value estimated at nearly 22000 dollars. Police Lt. Mike Sweeney confirmed the loss and warned many firearms may be in wrong hands.
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Salina
Mike Sweeney
Cleve
Marine and
Hearing Ordered on Nichols Trial Motion in Denver
A federal judge set February 7 for a hearing on Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols petitioning for a new trial. Judge Richard Matsch ordered the session as Nichols, convicted of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy, remains in a life term in federal prison.
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Denver
Oklahoma City
Terry Nichols
US District Court
Richard Matsch
Nichols
Correction Policy Notice For The Garden City Telegram
The Garden City Telegram states it will correct errors and asks readers to call 275-8500 if an error is noticed in the Telegram. The notice invites readers to report corrections and provides the contact phone number.
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Garden City
Grain prices at Garden City Co op report
Grain prices listed show Wheat at 2.00, COINN 32.10, Mile 3.40, Soybeans 4.34. Markets reflect local co op figures and commodity quotes, indicating price spreads and bids for farmers and traders. Limited readable figures suggest a snapshot of daily trading values and commodity naming in early ledger notes.
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Garden City Co-op
Monky Business promises monastery comedy by Hays
Mark Hays directs and acts in Garden City Recreation Commission's production of Monky Business a musical comedy in two covenants. The show runs 8 p.m. January 19 and 20 and 2 p.m. January 21 at Clifford Hope Auditorium Garden City High School. The plot follows monks who run a radio thon to save their monastery from Bernie's Casino Royale with vaudeville routines and gags. Tickets are $7 at the Rec Commission office or at the door.
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Mark Hays
Hays
Garden City Recreation Commission
Clifford Hope
Garden City High School
Kansas
Nunsense
Landon Baker
Randy Garrier
Luiz Orozco
Tony Stout
al Miller
Rec Commission
N. Sixth St
Garden City
Sixth St
Graves backs paid leave for organ donations
Gov. Bill Graves announced an executive order creating the Kansas Donor Leave Program offering state employees up to 30 days paid leave for organ donation, seven days for bone marrow, and periodic paid time for blood and platelets. He wore an organ donor on his license and urged renewal patients to consider donation. The plan follows discussions on utility bills and child support system updates.
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Topeka
Bill Graves
Graves
Kansas
Jay Menitove
Community Blood Center
Kansas City
Senate
House Judiciary Committees
Snow Expected Across Kansas This Weekend
The National Weather Service warns much of Kansas may see snow over the weekend and into early next week. Today will bring rain and thunderstorms statewide with snow likely in the northwest by afternoon. Highs reach the upper 30s to upper 40s in the south and southeast. Tonight snow is expected in northwestern and north central Kansas with 1 to 2 inches possible. Rain should end by midnight in the east, then flurries or light snow may occur in eastern and southern Kansas. Road condition hotline 1 8NN 5A5 7APR.
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Topeka
Kansas
National Weather Service
Garden City Weather: Showers, Tstorms Likely Today
The forecast calls for an 80 percent chance of showers and thunder storms. Windy with a mid 40s high and a gusty south wind 20 to 30 mph shifting to northwest late. Tonight remains windy with possible flurries and mostly cloudy skies, low mid 20s.
Garden City board to hear dropout recovery plan
The USD 457 board meets at 7:30 PM in the Educational Support Center to discuss a dropout recovery program presented by Kathy Dale of Southwest Plains Regional Service Center. The program aims to help dropouts earn diplomas outside traditional school settings, with cost shared by the service center and district. The meeting will also cover Garden City High School scheduling changes after a failed bond issue to build a second high school.
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Garden City Board of Education
Fleming St
Kathy Dale
Southwest Plains Regional Service Center
USD 457
Garden City High School
ConAgra fire impact discussed at USD 457 meeting
The USD 457 board meets Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Educational Support Center to discuss staggered seminar periods and potential district effects from ConAgra Beef Co shutdown. About 1,100 students have family employed by ConAgra, risking millions in state aid losses. The session ends with closed executive discussions on property acquisition and staff contracts.
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ConAgra Beef Co
ConAgra
Finney County to hold hearing on grant loan for Hubers
Finney County Commissioners will hold a public hearing at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Administrative Office Building to discuss a community development grant and revolving loan for Rick and Randall Huber who seek 20000 from county funds and 260000 loan from Citizens State Bank to supplement a 375000 total purchase for taking over Vern Cox Frame and Axle. The City Commission supported 60000. A separate Jan 24 hearing addresses Garden City Mobile Home Park wastewater permit opposed by the Finney County Conservation District over groundwater seepage near Mansfield Road and an evaporation lagoon planned for treatment.
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Finney County
Ninth St
Rick
Randall Huber
Hubers
Vern Cox Frame and Axle
Citizen’s State Bank
Kansas
Garden City
Mobile Home Park
Finney County Conservation District
Mansfield Road
County Commission Sets Meeting on Water, Weeds and Shelter
Finney County commissioners meet Tuesday at 8:30 AM in the Administrative Office Building to discuss disposal methods for groundwater, a cost share with Collingwood Grain, weed herbicide purchases, county vs farmer purchasing options, and funding half of a $9,000 sand blasting sealing and repainting project for the animal shelter plus an executive session on a non elected personnel matter.
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Diane Coe
Southwest Kansas Environmental Planning Group
Coe
Finney County
Collingwood Grain
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