Public to speak on Finney County tax hike Aug 11 hearing
Finney County Commissioners set a public hearing for August 11 at 10 45 a m on the 2004 county budget featuring a 5 5 mill increase to the property tax levy. The plan would lift the 41 3 mill levy from last year’s 35 7 mills, affecting a 75 000 home by about 355 57 in county taxes. The hearing follows a 27 66 million budget approval with general fund priorities like the sheriff and attorney’s offices.
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Garden City Community College
State
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Sheriff’s Office
Civil Air Patrol
Civil Air
E-Kan
Garden City Fire & Rescue
Tim McCauliffe
Simplex Grinnell
US forces hunt Saddam sons in Mosul gunbattle
U S soldiers fought Iraqi gunmen inside a suspected hideout of senior Saddam Hussein regime members in Mosul killing four. Washington officials probed whether the dead included Odai and Qusai Saddam. The charred house belonged to a Saddam cousin tribal leader. A $25 million reward was offered for Saddam, $15 million for each son. A U S soldier died on a road north of Baghdad in the Sunni Triangle, raising U S fatalities to 153 since the March 20 war began.
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Qusai
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Tampa
Fla
Balad
Ramadi
State fair to be cooler this year at Cottonwood Court
Kansas State Fair undergoes a 29 million dollar upgrade with Cottonwood Court turned into air conditioned permanent vendor spaces. Eleven longtime food vendors move into permanent quarters in the renovated Commercial Building now Cottonwood Court. The fair runs September 5 to 14 and will seat up to 1000 diners in the main floor and mezzanine.
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Hutchinson
Cottonwood Court
Denny Stoecklein
Fairgrounds
Farrel Brown
South Hutchinson
United Methodist Church
Finney County Public Works opens new office complex
Finney County unveils a 101 W. Maple St. public works building costing just over 1 million dollars. Director Max Morgan calls it a 17 year dream as staff move from cramped 504 W. St. John St. to a single site with a lab, shop, and ADA compliant offices for road, bridge, and noxious weed crews.
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Ford County
New Public Works
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Finney County
Public Works
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St. Mary’s Catholic School
Public Works Department
John Ellermann
Pete Olson
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Randy Vickery
Baker Boot Co
N. Main
Inspiring Minds
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