Parole Board to Hear Garden City Public Comments
Kansas Parole Board will hold public comment sessions for inmates eligible for parole in Garden City and other cities. Session in Finney County Courthouse room 209 runs 9 to 11 a.m. July 20. Mike Spragg faces August parole for a 1990 Gray County aggravated incest conviction. Holders may also mail concerns to Topeka office.
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Kansas Parole Board
Garden City
Department of Corrections
Finney County
Eighth St
Kansas
Mike Spragg
Gray County
Kansas City
Parsons
Wichita
Topeka
KPB
London State Office
Jackson St
K 9 officer nets meth arrest at rest stop
Finney County K 9 officer Tim Shultz nabbed Orland Eurich at a rest stop on U S 50 around 12 30 am after Eurich hid something and fled. About 14 grams of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia were found. Eurich is jailed on meth possession and paraphernalia charges. The article also notes a 1 30 pm rededication ceremony for the Garden City Finney County Law Enforcement Center renovations with tours offered.
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Finney County
K-9
Tim Shultz
U.S. Highway 50
Kevin Bascue
Bascue
Shultz
Orland Eurich
Great Bend
Eurich
Garden City
WKCF Accepting Grants for Youth and Equipment
The Western Kansas Community Foundation begins accepting grant applications from nonprofits. Focus areas are equipment and youth projects. Since 1996 WKCF has distributed over 40,000 in grants across six counties.
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Western Kansas Community Foundation
WKCF
Western
Kansas
Garden City
Paulasue Sawyers
Fiddlers Host Monthly Program in Lakin
The Western Plains Chapter of the Kansas Old Time Fiddlers Pickers and Singers will hold its monthly program Sunday at the Memorial Building in Lakin. Sign up for performers starts at 1 30 p.m. with the show at 2 p.m. Musicians from the area are invited to perform and the public attends free. For details call Elmer Grubbs or Curtis Young.
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Fiddlers Organization
Western Plains
The
Kansas Old Time Fiddlers, Pickers and Singers
Memorial Building
Lakin
Elmer Grubbs
Curtis Young
Kansas launches real time water quality monitoring statewide
The USGS and partners deploy 11 real time sensors across Kansas to track water temperature oxygen levels chlorophyll and chemicals at sites along the Kansas River Little Arkansas River Olathe Lake and other waterways. Data updates every four hours aiding water treatment and public education.
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Topeka
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Andy Ziegler
Kansas
Ziegler
Topeka Capital Journal
Kansas River
Wamego
DeSoto
Little Arkansas River
Sedgwick
Halstead
Arkansas
Coolidge
Olathe Lake
Cedar Creek
Olathe
Rattlesnake Creek
Zenith
North Fork
Ninnesah River
Cheney Reservoir
Finney County budget committee to map 2002 funds
Finney County Commissioners will weigh the 2002 budget with a public hearing planned for August. A Monday session will reveal the mill levy needed to fund all department requests and keep the levy stable. Several departments seek increases, while some see cuts. totals include boosts for the County Attorney EMS and Sheriff's budgets. A 1:30 p.m. dedication at the Law Enforcement Center follows an 8:30 a.m. meeting at the Administrative Center.
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Finney County
Finney
Pete Olson
Finney County Attorney's Office
Law Enforcement Center
Public Works Shop
Anderson Road
Jones Avenue
Finney County Administrative Center
Ninth St
LEC
Kansas Travel Center in Goodland Showcases State History
A new Goodland travel information center highlights Kansas history with Open Prairie themed architecture. The 7,400 square foot facility, under construction since May and due to finish by January, will feature two sections, an aviation and agriculture emphasis, copper roof, pyramid skylight, limestone entrances, a sunflower plaza, and a state seal mosaic.
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Goodland
Kansas
Alan Stecklein
Hays
Stecklein
Belle Plaine
Kansas State
Drug dealers fund other arrests via forfeiture cash
In Wichita the narcotics seizure fund has grown from about 60 000 to as high as 1 million dollars over a decade. The fund pays for efforts to catch other drug dealers, reduces taxpayer costs, and is fueled by seized money and cars from drug activity.
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Wichita
Wichita Police Department
Tom Stolz
Jennifer Hudson
Sedgwick County
Jeanette Clary
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Hudson
Mike Bruce
Bruce
Kansas counties seek task force to fight meth labs
Central Kansas authorities push for a regional drug task force after three clandestine methamphetamine labs were raided in six days in Rice County. Sheriff Bundy says sustained lab activity stems from rural setting and high profitability, with $60 invested yielding over $1,000.
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Bundy
Rice County
Wichita
U.S. Department of Justice
Midwest
McPherson
Larry Powell
Kansas
Powell
Tain
Pratt County
Vernon Chinn
Harper County
Kirk Rogers
Sumner
Harper
Barber
Pratt
Kingman
Chinn
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State Parole Board
City of Olathe
Stafford
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
KDHE
Mike Heideman
Wes Powell
Oasis
10Th and Mary Streets
Powell Sales and Service
Duals
Diane Lewis
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