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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 2016
Page
1
In Scott County Kansas farmers report a bumper wheat crop with fields yielding 70 to 80 bushels per acre and grain elevators already overflowing. Rain delays frustrate growers like Shayne Suppes while some fields still wait for harvest as kernels shrink and test weights drop.
Persistent rain drenches Kansas, ending a six year drought in parts of the state. Spearville records 2 inches while Meade County nears 10 inches total, with 6 inches since June 29. Average annual rainfall is 21 inches. Fields soaked as custom cutters work at a local swimming pool amid a bumper Hamilton County harvest. Some fields report 25 inches since June 23 as up to 60 bushels of wheat per acre are being cut.
Garden City commissioners preliminarily approve a 2017 budget reducing the property tax mill levy to 36.45 mills from 2016, with $69 million in city property taxes expected. Public hearing set for July 19 at 1 30 pm, allowing further cuts but no increase in the levy.
The Finney County Commission paused further work on the Exhibition Building to study its structure after a major leak appeared last summer. Architects and builders from Architecture Pins and Dick Construction identified rotted rubber gaskets in interlocking metal panels as the leak cause and recommended reskinning and new panel siding. an estimate is being prepared.
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