City eyes looser fireworks rules in Garden City
Garden City commissioners weigh amending the fireworks ordinance to allow aerial displays and sales within city limits. At a town hall at Gertrude Walker Elementary, fire officials and business owners urged changes while residents noted ongoing violations around July 4. A stand owner opposed changes, saying local shops could be outcompeted by larger firms.
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Garden City
John Doll
Gertrude Walker
Fair St
Espinosa
Allen Shelton
Prairie Fire BioEnergy Cooperative closes Lane County plant
Lane County’s Prairie Fire BioEnergy Cooperative closed the biomass facility in early February. Walter Johnson, vice president of First State Bank of Healy and treasurer of the investor group, said the bank will take over the plant as officials seek a buyer. The venture, begun in 2007 to create jobs and replace coal with crop waste energy, faced equipment problems and the downturn, with a collapsed European market cited as a key factor.
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Walter Johnson
First State Bank of Healy
Investors’ Group
Johnson
Healy
Sunflower Electric Cooperative
Lane County
Sunflower
Holcomb
Prairie Fire
Europe
Ruling bars local tax preparer from filing false returns
A federal judge in Kansas City Kansas issued a preliminary injunction barring Garden City tax preparer Jose Lares owner of Dinero Rapido Tax Services from preparing returns with false dependent exemptions and filing statuses. The civil suit filed in Wichita seeks to permanently bar Lares from tax preparation after IRS audits found an average tax loss per return over 6000 dollars. Lares consented to the injunction without admitting wrongdoing and may file federal taxes for clients if compliant.
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Kansas City
Kan
Garden City
U.S. Department of Justice
Jose Lares
Dinero Rapido Tax Services
Fulton St
U.S. District Court
Wichita
Internal Revenue Service
Lares
Dinero Rapido
Holcomb
IRS
Justice Department
Charles Miller
Montoya Bound Over For Trial In Sister Murder
Luis Montoya, 53, bound over for trial on first degree murder in the August 2009 stabbing death of his sister Maria Montoya, 55, after a preliminary hearing. An arraignment is set for April 26.
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Luis Montoya
Maria Montoya
Montoya
Philip C. Vieux
E. US
Bo Jacobs
Robert Ojeda
Ojeda
Geovannie
Lori Jensen
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