Lunch program applications offered in Garden City
Free and reduced lunch applications have been mailed to pre enrolled USD 457 students. Parents must enroll by filling out the form and returning it to the Nutrition Services Department at 1205 Fleming St. Applications are available 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Return by August 15. Call 276-5320 for more information.
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Nutrition Services Department
Fleming St
Garden City
Nutrition Service Department
Nutrition Services
Overland Park girl charged with stabbing death
A 15 year old Overland Park girl was charged with second degree murder in the stabbing death of 19 year old Charles Jamison of Abbeville Mississippi. Jamison had stayed at the house where the stabbing occurred after intervening in a fight between Curry and her sister. The court kept her in custody with a July 17 court date set.
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Olathe
Overland Park
Mississippi
Shanelle T. Curry
Johnson County District Court
Charles Jamison
Abbeville
Miss
Curry
Jim Weaver
Jamison
Brian Burgess
Randy McCalla
Brenda Cameron
Cameron
Morrison seeks death penalty in Cowley College student case
Attorney General Paul Morrison filed notice Monday that Kansas will seek the death penalty in the capital murder case against 24 year old Justin Thurber. Thurber is charged with capital murder rape aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sodomy in the death of 19 year old Jodi Sanderholm of Arkansas City who vanished January 5 and was found battered strangled near a wooded area eleven miles from the campus. He remained silent at arraignment as Judge Jim Pringle entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
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Thurber
Morrison
Cowley
Jim Pringle
Pringle
Kansas
Holcomb board fills administrative vacancies
USD 363 board on Monday filled two key posts by naming Rob McCallister director of maintenance and grounds at 60000 dollars, with McCallister resigning from the board to allow a Holcomb resident to be appointed as a new member. Chad Krug was selected as assistant principal athletic director at Holcomb High and Middle Schools at 72100 dollars, while Gal City links were noted in his prior role.
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USD 363 Board of Education
Holcomb
Garden City
Rob McCallister
Julie Chamberlain
McCallister
USD 363
Kansas
Tim Miller
Mary Ann Bennett
Railroad Avenue
Big Lowe Road
Retir
Ing
Richard Bennett
Chad Krug
Holcomb High School
Holcomb Middle School
Krug
Garden City High School
USC 457 Board of Education
Alta Brown
Florence Wilson
Jerrod Stoppel
Bob Krug
Steve Johnson
Johnson
Ingalls High School
Stoppel
Ingalls
O’connor
Jerrod
Chad
GCCC Board Considers Small Tax Hike for 2007-08 Budget
Garden City Community College trustees weigh publishing a budget with a slight mill levy increase to 19.34 for 2007-08, while anticipated tax revenue drops due to lower Finney County assessed valuation and a reduced state operating grant. The plan would raise the owner of a 100000 dollar home’s payment by about 1.38, amid ongoing cuts and funding shifts.
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Garden City Community College Board of Trustees
Finney County
College
GCCC
Carol Ballantyne
Mark Low
Kansas Board of Regents
Kansas
Garden City Community College Budget Retreat and Budget Cuts
Garden City Community College trustees set a 5:30 p.m. budget retreat and 7 p.m. regular meeting in the Endowment Room. The plan aims to save about 900000 after lifting holdbacks from settlement disputes with oil and gas firms. Personnel raises target 5 percent for classified staff and 3.5 percent for faculty, with most other areas trimmed about 10 percent. Some programs see smaller cuts to IT, health and physical education, meat judging, fire science, and ammonia refrigeration. Public hearing on the final budget is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 8 after publication in The Garden City Telegram.
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Ballantyne
GCCC
Finney County
Information Technology Department
Garden City Telegram
Wichita begins Sunday liquor sales
Wichita citywide ban on Sunday alcohol sales failed to force a vote, approving the expanded sales earlier. Liquor and convenience stores opened Sunday, drawing long lines and discounts as customers bought beer amid hot weather. Store owners reported strong turnout and early openings.
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Wichita
R&j Discount Liquor
Shelly Breault
Bill Compton
Wichita area Wild West World theme park closes after two months
Wild West World in Park City near Wichita filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy two months after opening on May 5. The destination park with 24 rides on 40 acres owes secured and unsecured creditors millions, with weather cited as a key factor in attendance declines and operations stoppage.
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Wichita
Wild West World
Park City
Ride
Thomas Etheredge
Interstate 135
First National Bank of Southern Kansas
Etheredge
Old shoe unearthed at Statehouse renovation in Topeka
Workers digging under the west wing stairs uncover a century old brown men’s button shoe with porcelain buttons. The shoe, found in the late 1800s, was moved to the Kansas History Museum for study, with catalogs from A J Cammeyer guiding the mystery of its origin and size roughly around an eight.
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Topeka
Statehouse
Laura Vannersdel
History Museum
Martin
Vannersdel
A.J. Cammeyer
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Holcomb Board
Mill Valley High School
Shawnee
GCHS
Washburn University
University of Kansas
Bob O’connor
Inter
Gccc Board
Beth Tedrow
Garden City Community College
Campus Drive
Breault
Brad Sommerfield
Nolan Richmeier
Citizens Bank of
Greensburg
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