Water main project on Kansas Avenue to close westbound lane
Roundup construction to replace an aging water main on Kansas Avenue between Seventh and Third streets starts Monday. Westbound traffic will run in a single lane during the day, with completion anticipated by early December if weather cooperates. The work under the eastbound lanes precedes a widening to five lanes from Main to Third next spring.
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Rotary Veterans Day lunch in Garden City set
Garden City Rotary Club schedules its annual Veterans Day fundraising lunch from 11 30 a m to 1 p m Wednesday at the Clarion Inn A Thanksgiving menu will be served with entertainment by the Garden City Community College Marching Band Tickets are sold by Rotary members and a portion of proceeds benefit area veterans who attend free Proceeds fund hard bound dictionaries for third graders presented by Rotary members to promote learning For tickets call Liz Scheppner at 620 275 5121
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Clarion Inn
Garden City Community College
Rotary
Garden City
Liz Scheppner
Finney County Extension Council elections on Tuesday
Finney County Extension Council will hold annual elections from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Extension Office for three representatives on each committee with write in candidates accepted. Absentee ballot info is available by calling (620) 272-3670 before Monday. Transit offers free bus rides to voters on Election Day.
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Finney County Extension Council
Finney County
Alva Burch
Travis Fenderson
Steve Michel
Melvin Neufeld
Brian Price
Rosemary Corbett
Gloria Davis
Jennifer Gerber
Deann Gillen
Tammy Hutcheson
Rebecca Price
Marisa Kleysteuber
Mark Pamplin
Carmen Rhodes
Finney County Transit
Two Asian wild horses join Lee Richardson Zoo herd
Berezhnei a 20 year old male and Yelena a 31 year old female arrive from Dakota Zoo in Bismarck North Dakota under the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan. The new residents will help educate guests about conservation and Mongolian wild horse reintroduction efforts. An additional Asian wild horse is expected to join in the coming months.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
Berezhnei
Yelena
Dakota Zoo
Bismarck
N.D
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Przewalski
Zoo
II Pablo Holguin
Europe
United States
Mongolia
China
Kristi Newland
Kobach predicts record Kansas turnout near 72 percent
Secretary of State Kris Kobach forecast a 1.3 million voter turnout in Kansas an estimated 72 percent of registered voters. He cited past accuracy noting 410 thousand in Augusts and 50 percent turnout in 2014 while highlighting gains in registered voters including unaffiliated totals. He defended the proof of citizenship registry amid legal challenges and cited increases across Republican Democrat and Libertarian registrations while unaffiliated rose to 542 thousand.
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Barack Obama
John McCain
Kansas
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Orion Danjuma
Secretary of State
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