Western Kansas Scholastic Art Show at Historic Adobe Museum
The 11th annual WKSA competition and exhibition displays senior and junior high works through Feb 6 at the Historic Adobe Museum in Ulysses. 540 entries were juried, with 220 winners and honorable mentions on display. Regional winners advance to a national show in July in Washington DC. Open 10 am to 5 pm weekdays and 1 to 5 pm weekends. Free admission.
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Western Kansas
Adobe Museum
Ulysses
Washington
D.C
WKSA
Cheyenne
Clark
Decatur
Finney
Ford
Gove
Graham
Grant
Gray
Greeley
Hamilton
Haskell
Hodgeman
Kearny
Lane
Logan
Meade
Morton
Ness
Norton
Rawlings
Scott
Seward
Sheridan
Sherman
Stanton
Stevens
Drivers Education Enrollment at Garden City High School
Garden City High School opens enrollment for its Drivers Education for current students. Morning and afternoon spring classes run after school in room 97, with driving as a summer component. The course costs $100 and inquiries go to GCHS at 276-5170.
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Garden City High School
GCHS
IRS tax help offered at Garden City Community College
The IRS is hosting its annual tax tour at Beth Tedrow Student Center, GCCC, to assist southwest Kansas residents with 2004 returns. Hours vary today through Feb 3 and again later in the week, for filers with AGI under 34000 and forms 1040EZ 1040A 1040. Assistance covers Schedule A and B but not Schedules C D E or F, with contact at 276 9632.
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Internal Revenue Service
Kansas
IRS
Beth Tedrow
Garden City Community College
GCCC
Small Business Center
Supreme Court orders review of 450 federal sentences
The high court requires federal courts to reassess about 450 sentences, including Kansas City pharmacist Robert Courtney's 30-year term for diluting chemotherapy drugs, ruling the guidelines violated Sixth Amendment jury trial rights by letting judges set prison time on factual findings. Courtney is imprisoned in Greenville Illinois with a projected release date of October 27, 2027.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court
Supreme Court
Robert Courtney
Courtney
Greenville
Kansas county officials form splinter association
A Kansas splinter group of county officials announced a new organization the Kansas County Officials Association led by Haskell County Treasurer Nancy Weeks. They accuse the Kansas Association of Counties of diminishing voices for treasurers sheriffs clerks and registers of deeds and aim to keep local autonomy amid budget and governance concerns.
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Topeka
HNS
Kansas Association of Counties
Haskell
Nancy Weeks
Kansas County Officials Association
Counties Association
Weeks
State of
Kansas
County Commission
Commission
Coffey County
Randy Rogers
Geary County
Rebecca Bossemeyer
Kearny County Register of Deeds
Missie Gerritzen
Franklin County
Ed Taylor
Taylor
Sioners
Randall Allen
Kansas Associations of
Sheriffs
Registers of Deeds
Allen
Association of Counties
Water main breaks close St. Dominic School two days
A 30-year-old water main ruptured near St. Dominic Catholic School causing exterior damage but no interior damage. The campus with 210 students closed for two days as a snow day precaution while major repairs by Tatro Plumbing were underway and the district awaited cost estimates.
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St. Dominic Catholic School
Catherine Therese
Therese
Trina Delgado
St. Dominic School
Delgado
Susan Berry
Garden City Water Department
Berry
Tatro Plumbing
Acraway
Bill would create new state office in Kansas
A House committee in Topeka eyeing a bill would establish an Office of Public Integrity to accept complaints about denied access to meetings or records. Under Attorney General Phill Kline, the office would refer cases to prosecutors or investigate law violations, and publish annual agency complaint summaries.
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Topeka
Hns
House
Kansas
Kansas Press Association
Office of
Public Integrity
House Governmental Organization Committee
Jene Vickrey
Louisburg
Phill Kline
Vickrey
Parents urge waiting on death penalty fix amid Kansas court ruling
Topeka AP Kansas legislators should defer rewriting the death penalty law until a possible U S Supreme Court decision, say Barbara and Duane Oblander parents of a capital murder victim. Attorney General Kline plans to appeal, while prosecutors worry the high court may not review if lawmakers act.
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Topeka
U.S. Supreme Court
Barbara
Duane Oblander
Goddard
Senate Judiciary Committee
Kansas Supreme Court
Phill Kline
Oblanders
Kansas Court
Gavin Scott
Doug Brittain
Beth
Kansas
Lawmak
Ers
Kline
US. Supreme Court
Greenwood County
Matt Samuels
Kay O’connor
R-Olathe
Vailing
Nora Foulston
Sedgwick County
Paul Morrison
Johnson County
Morrison
Foulston
Barbara Oblander
Kristi Smith
Kechi
Senate panel delays anti meth bill in Topeka debate
The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a debate on a bill to curb meth manufacture while a capital punishment hearing filled the meeting. Chairman John Wratil said the panel may discuss the measure Thursday. The bill would restrict ephedrine entries in cold medicine sold behind counters with ID and sign in logs.
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Senate
Judiciary Committee
John Wratil
R-Leawood
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Kansas News
Jesse Lopez
Garfield Elementary School
U.S
Senate Education Committee
Jean Schodorf
Wichita
Carol Edward Beggs
Salina
Oklahoma
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