Ride the Slide bus offers free rides to pool and center
Garden City Recreation Commission launches Ride the Slide a free bus service for safe rides to Big Pool or GCRC activity center running Monday to Thursday in its second year. Routes serve Towns Riverview Skyline Ridge East Garden Village Big Pool Trails Apartments Kenneth Henderson Middle School First Southern Baptist Church Scout Park Edith Scheuerman Elementary Ayala Park with pickups at set times. Riders 7 and under must be with an adult 16 or older.
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Garden City Recreation Commission
Donna Gerstner
GCRC
Garden City
Towns Riverview
Skyline
Ridge Road
East Garden Village
the Trails
Kenneth Henderson
First Southern Baptist Church
Scout Park
Edith Scheuerman
Ayala Park
Sublette United Methodist fish fry and tours at KC college class
Sublette United Methodist Church hosts a Friday fish fry offering fish, slaw, potatoes, pie and ice cream with proceeds to kitchen remodeling. The event features Turpin barbershop quartet Upper Management and Rick Schiff piano artist from Winfield. A Garden City CC class on June 26 covers Kansas travel using the Kansas Guidebook for Explorers.
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Sublette United Methodist Church
Carson and
Pursley Streets
Turpin
Okla
Rick Schiff
Winfield
Kansas
Garden City Community College
Marci Penner
Student and Community Service Center
Holcomb searches for chief slow with four applications
Holcomb's city administrator Robin Pena says only four applications have been received since May 17 for the police chief vacancy sparked by Jeff Sharp's May 4 resignation. The council will meet June 13 to decide whether to extend the deadline as in-state and one out-of-state candidate compete.
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Holcomb
Robin Pena
Pena
Finney County
Pennsylvania
Jeff Sharp
Matt Cole
Greg Cox
Jeff
Sharp
Cox
Garden City airport joins five year Great Lakes ad campaign
Garden City Regional Airport and city staff will join a five year plan with Great Lakes Aviation to promote the city on the back tail of one of the airline’s planes. Artist Ian Ostmeyer designed the logo featuring wheat fields a sunflower a wind turbine and a buffalo. The project aims to showcase southwest Kansas and attract attention across multiple states and destinations served by Great Lakes.
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Kansas
Garden City
Great Lakes Aviation
Rachelle Powell
Ian Ostmeyer
Garden City Telegram
Southwest Kansas
Ostmeyer
Seward County Community College
Telegram
Great Lakes
Creative Services Department
Airport Advisory Board
Harley Foulks
Arizona
Colorado
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Dakota
South Dakota
Texas
Wyoming
Monica Taylor
Denver
Taylor
Telluride
Colo
Scottsbluff, Ariz
Laramie
Wyo
Joe Irsik
Jason Evans
Wheat crop hopes amid heat in southwest Kansas
Wheat producers face a heat spell as National Weather Service forecasts near 100 degrees with strong winds in southwest Kansas. Curtis Thompson of KSU warns heat and drought stress threaten kernel fill, test weight, and yield. Other farmers also fear delayed harvests and lower production if hot, dry days persist.
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National Weather Service
Kansas
Curtis Thompson
Kansas State University Research and Extension
Thompson
Tribune
Finney County Extension
Dean Whitehill
Whitehill
Kansas senator questions route of funeral picketing law challenge
Lawrence AP report says Senate Majority Leader Derek Schmidt questions Attorney General Morrison's strategy to challenge only part of Kansas' funeral picketing law. He warns it could be a gamble before the Kansas Supreme Court while Morrison argues the partial challenge aims to speed enactment and uphold the buffer zone against demonstrations by Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church.
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Lawrence
Senate
Derek Schmidt
Paul Morrison
Kansas Supreme Court
Schmidt
R-Independence
Topeka
Fred Phelps
Morrison
Phelps
Westboro
Kansas
Ashley Anstaett
National Conference of State Legislatures
Ohio
Missouri
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Cole
Tony Forsen
Forsen
Finney County Sheriff's Office
Mary Knapp
Knapp
Lane County
Vance Ehmke
Ehmke
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
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