Thanksgiving closings hit area offices and banks
Garden City and Holcomb post offices close Thursday for Thanksgiving with limited express mail and some first class mail. Numerous county and city offices close Wednesday through Friday including Finney County courts museum health department library and learning centers. Local banks and schools also observe closures while The Telegram will not publish Thursday.
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Garden City
Holcomb
Garden City City
Holcomb City
Finney County
Finney County Historical Museum
Finney County Health Department
Garden City Animal Shelter
Lee Richardson Zoo
Finney County Public Library
Garden City Community College
Saffell
Finnup Center For Conservation Education
Finney County Community Learning Center
Usda Service Center
United Methodist
Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce
Garden City Usd 457
Holcomb Usd 363
Garden City man accused of kidnapping wife during DUI arrest
Grant County deputies arrested Emilio Maldonado after he allegedly blocked his wife from leaving, forced her into his pickup, and assaulted her. He was stopped for DUI at U.S. 160 and Durham Street in Ulysses and held on aggravated kidnapping criminal restraint and domestic battery charges.
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Grant County
Garden City
Mike Utz
Emilio Maldonado
Chesterfield St
Maria DeLaLuz-Maldonado
DeLaLuz-Maldonado
Maldonado
Utz
Chesterfield Street
DeLa Luz-Maldonado
West
Fulton Street
Grant County Sheriff's Department
U.S. Highway 160
Durham Street
Ulysses
Salina man killed by auger at Ottawa County farm
Dale Crown, 41, of Salina died after his legs were caught in a thin auger while working at his parents' Ottawa County farm on Saturday. Rescue crews arrived about 1 p.m. and freed him, but he died at the scene two hours later, said Ottawa County Undersheriff Karmon Kindall. Road condition hotline included.
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Salina
Ottawa County
Dale Crown
Crown
Karmon Kindall
Unemployment steady in southwest Kansas counties October
Unemployment held steady across southwest Kansas in October with Finney Garden City Gray and Haskell showing no change. Kearny Lane Hamilton saw varied rises and lows while the state rate rose to 4.7 percent. Local officials expect holiday hiring may shift trends in November and December.
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Kansas
Department of Human Resources
Finney County
Garden City
Gray County
Haskell County
Kearny County
Lane
Hamilton County
Garden City Job Service
Alan Riedel
Riedel
Bill Layes
Boeing Co
Layes
Finney
Grant
Gray
Greeley
Hamilton
Haskell
Kearny
Scott
Stanton
Stevens
Wichita
Holiday lights glow as Garden City park lights up
Volunteers in Stevens Park a chilly Saturday prepare 87 trees for a 6 p.m. lighting ceremony. Children and students help while Santa arrives in a horse drawn carriage. Lights total around 37,750 as Darrell Rains wins the light-count contest with 35,000 visible bulbs.
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Mayra Gallegos
Erica Manriquez
Stevens Park
Holcomb High School
Foreign Language Clubs
Michael Wehkamp
Ingalls
Garden City
Alan Riedel
Riedel
Wehkamp
Welkamp
Steve Dyer
Maria Thornton
Darin Miller
Shell
Tyler Wright
Dustin
Clay Wright
Garden City Community College
Tyler
Chamber of Commerce
Wright
Darrell Rains
Santa Claus
Drug task force busy with weekend searches
Garden City and Finney County drug task force executed three search warrants at two residences and a business as part of an ongoing trafficking probe. At 2317 N Seventh St a cache of drug packaging materials 19 oxycodone tablets and $229 were seized. At 621 N 13th St investigators found 15 grams of marijuana a digital scale packaging materials and $1,166 leading to the arrest of Christopher Grover and Teresa Pearson for marijuana possession. The Thelma's Cajun Kitchen site yielded no arrests or discoveries.
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Garden City
Finney County
Garden City Police Department
Seventh St
Mike Utz
Finney County Attorney
Utz
N. 13Th St
Christopher Grover
Teresa Pearson
Grover
Thelma
W. Mary St
Geuda Springs considers firearm ordinance amid secrecy
Residents in Geuda Springs Kansas oppose a city measure requiring some households to own firearms and ammunition to be fined ten dollars for noncompliance. The council backed the plan 3-2 citing public safety in a town without police. Critics including the sheriff and city attorney question legality and safety. The measure awaits Dec. 1 council review.
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Geuda Springs
Kansas
Oklahoma
John Brewer
Genda Springs
Sumner County
Gerald Gilkey
Gilkey
Thomas Herlocker
Herlocker
Phillip Russell
Russell
Whitney Watson
Phill Kline
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