Garden City budget talks target near flat mill levy
Garden City commissioners prep a near flat budget with a proposed 33.9 mills, noting a $390 annual increase for a $100,000 home and adding plans for an airport taxiway redesign, Big Pool work, and a new fire station while reviewing Flower Aviation restaurant lease and a demolished home bid.
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Jennie Barker Road
Schulman Avenue
Animal Pound
Valley View Cemetery
Steve Cottrell
Flower Aviation
Garden City Regional
Airport Advisory Board
Eldon Engel
Engel
Flower’s
Bob Halloran
Randy Grisell
Garden City USD 457 to review district budget and levy
Garden City USD 457 board to approve a 0.25 mill levy increase and a 23 percent local option funding rise, boosting the general fund by over 600000. A public hearing is set for August 9 at the Educational Support Center, with prior budget outline presented July 12 by Kathleen Whitley.
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Garden City
Finney County
Gardens City Community College
USD 457
Jeff Whitham
Board of Education
E. Fleming St
Kathleen Whitley
Garden City Community College
Whitley
Janie Perkins
Shelly Schwatken
Family rabbits bring awards to Grant County Fair
Eight year old Kelsie Shapland shows Bluejay the gray rabbit while her brother Seth enters a Himalayan, as the Shapland family forms The Bunny Squad and secures first place in junior and intermediate showmanship amid plans to return to Kansas fairs with pigs and steers joining the lineup.
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Ulysses
Grant County
Kelsie Shapland
Bluejay
Shapland
Floe
Ashley
Brittany
Seth
Kelsie
Shelly Shapland
Shelly
Four candidates seek Lane County Second District seat
In Lane County Kansas four candidates vie for the Second District County Commission seat, including incumbent John Lawrence and challengers Byron Burnett Larry Fagerquist and Jon Risley all residents of Dighton. Also running in the county is Thomas Bennett in the 3rd District.
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Lane County Commission
John Lawrence
Byron Burnett
Larry Fagerquist
Jon Risley
Dighton
Burnett
California
Fort Hays State University
Finney County
Howard Solley
Robert Baker
Jerry Davis
Don Dell
Irv Stephens
Grant County
Gene Schwein
Marty Long
Richard Hagerman
Gray County
W. Wiley McFarland
Steve Kerr
Bill Good
Greeley County
Gerald Wendt
Michael Thon
Alan Waggoner
Donald Walter
Randy Wolfe
Haskell County
Bill Lower
Jerry Paris
Darcy Alexander
Raymond Brown
Kearny County
Thomas Wright
Larry Combs
Scott County
Stanley Salmans
Jack Frick
Stanton County
John Smith
William Nicholas
Martie Floyd
Stevens County
Glen Gaskill
Michael Prine
Frank Walker
David Bozone
Gary Baker
Patrick Hall
Wichita County
Dan Nickerson
Steven Baker
Ing
Lawrence
Becky
Mariann
Michelle
Garden City Community College
Risley
Marlene
Jeff
Annie
Lane County
Thomas Bennett
Iraqi officer joins Fort Leavenworth study mission
Lieutenant Colonel Sherwan Mashadh Amen, 34, from the Kurdish arm of Iraq, studies at Fort Leavenworth's Command and General Staff College as the first Iraqi officer there since 1967. He promotes a new Iraqi army image and says he now feels like a citizen of all Iraq.
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Topeka
Sherwan Mashadh Amen
Statehouse
Amen
Command and General Staff College
Fort Leavenworth
Iraq
Kansas Post
U.S. Army
Saddam Hussein
Baath Party
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Garden City Administrative Center
Eighth St
N. Fourth St
Helen Davis- Rodebaugh
Lee Construction Inc
Davis-Rodebaugh
Columbus
Ohio
Grisell
Greg Schaller
Lupe Lopez
Maple St
Commerce Drive
Airlinks
Garden City Recreation Commission
Halloran
City Commission
Garden City Commission
USC
Educational Support Center
Pat Willis
Hugoton
Grant County Fair
Joyce Rogers
Willis
Area County Commission
Fagerquist
Mary
Jodi
Charlie
Fort Hays State
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