Hutchison Elementary Closes After 1917 Service Amid Farewell
About 300 people gathered Sunday to bid farewell as Hutchison Elementary School closed its doors after serving Garden City since 1917. The ceremony featured songs, speeches, and tours highlighting Judge William Easton Hutchison’s legacy, with plans discussed for a new Florence Wilson Elementary and a potential city library site on the former campus.
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William Easton Hutchison
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City Library
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Historical Society
Dolores Hope
Grant County
Pennsylvania
Congress
Kansas Supreme Court
Alda Loftis
Judge Hutchison
McGaugh
Miss Brown
Edith Benny
Rowena Beckett Kemper
Winifred Koksal
Leona Dearing
Marguerite Roth Downer
Bernice Smith
Thelma Baker
Julia Drevnick Ford
Charles Sinclair
Kareen Warner Wadsack
Jean Selignow
Betty Kemper
Merle Weiderstein
Leroy Garman
Doug Tedrow
Shelly Freeman
Debra Neiman
Rosalee Herman
Doris Cowdray Grenz
Ruth Johnson
Janet Shay
Pat Doerr
Hit and run cuts gas service in Garden City
A hit and run damaged two gas meters and a gas line in the 2000 block of West Mary, cutting natural gas service. Peoples Natural Gas reports the driver struck the line late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, after a restaurant caller alerted officials that the kitchen had no gas for cooking.
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Cyclist Hospitalized After Main Street Collision
Garden City motorcyclist James M. White, 55, was treated at St. Catherine Hospital in good condition after his bike collided with a car on Main Street near Main Maple. Police reported the car left the scene after turning left, causing gas line damage and gas service interruptions along Mary Street. Damaged Peoples equipment was estimated at 300 dollars.
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Driver charged after left turn crash injures cyclist
Police said a car driven by 18 year old Charles D Sparkman of Scott City struck a cycle while turning left onto Maple from Main. The cyclist, White, was taken to St Catherine by Finney County EMS. Sparkman faced a charge of failure to yield when turning left.
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Judith K. McGilvray
Cashion
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Finney County Emergency Medical Service
Fire destroys a pickup near Garden City Kansas
No injuries reported after a 1976 Chevrolet pickup burned near the Farmland Foods plant on river road southeast of Garden City. Firefighters arrived after 1 30 p.m. and ruled a gas line leak caused the blaze. Loss estimated at 3000 dollars, owned by Mike Huber. A separate report from Iola notes 69 year old Russell M Hill died when his car left a county road northeast of Iola, struck a pole and overturned around 3 p.m. on Saturday with no other fatalities in Kansas.
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Farmland Foods
River Road
Allen Shelton
Mike Huber
Lincoln Rd
Iola
Kan
Russell M. Hill
Kansas City
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