Public split on Kansas school finance court role
Kansas residents express divergent views on the courts order to double funding for public schools and the political fight over how to raise the money. The dispute began with a 1999 lawsuit and a 2002 Augenblick and Meyer study, prompting a special legislative session to raise funding beyond the initial $142 million package and an additional $143 million by July 1.
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Salina
Dodge City
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Buffalo Days at Sandsage Bison Range Celebrates 100th Kansas Wildlife Anniversary
The Teels of Hugoton, visiting the Sandsage Bison Range for Buffalo Days, got stuck in mud during a guided tour but enjoyed the close buffalo sighting and re enactments. The event marks the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks centennial and the range’s name change from Finney County Game Refuge to Sandsage Bison Range. It featured Cheyenne and Buffalo Bill era camps, authentic displays, and lessons on Native American history. About 350 people attended as re enactors Karl Grover and Ron Drummond portrayed 1865 1870 period soldiers.
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Linda Teel
Sandsage Bison Range
Teels
Hugoton
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Tom Norman
Finney County Game Refuge
Norman
Teel
Buffalo Bill
Arlene Lyons
Karl Grover
Ron Drummond
Grover
Great Bend
Drummond
Salina
Kirk Shapland
Dighton
California Joe
Mark Berry
McDonald
Children Festival Bright Fun At Stevens Park
About 200 people attended the Stevens Park Children’s Festival hosted by the Tumbleweed Girl Scouts Council Inc. Families enjoyed games and painted faces as Destiny 2 Breyana Deatherage 7 and Michael Hensley 16 joined Loretta DeLaRosa of Garden City.
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Tumbleweed Girl Scouts Council Inc
Loretta DeLaRosa
Garden City
Destiny
Breyana Deatherage
Michael Hensley
DeLaRosa
Marsha McConnaughy
Girl Scouts
Creating life after career the Renick garden story
Merrill Renick, 88, once ran a Garden City drug store in the Windsor Hotel until 1977. He then pursued planting, painting, and computers, filling his home near the Finney County Public Library with oil paintings and family photos. His wife Roberta notes their children and grandchildren stay central as their backyard overflows with flowers and greenery, with a jungle of plants on the patio. Retirement, Page A5.
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Windsor Hotel
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Crook’s
Finney County Public Library
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Colorado Springs
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