Montezuma Heritage Holiday Set With Food Drives and Lights
Montezuma hosts Heritage Holiday 2002 on Monday featuring a $5 breakfast by Blue Light and Lions, hamburger lunch, bake sale, ham and bean dinner, open houses, prizes, and a coat drive. Highlights include Lighting of the Greens at 5 15 p.m. on Aztec Street, Cub Scout s mores, hay rides, kid activities, and music.
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Montezuma
Blue Light
Montezuma Lions Club
Unruh-Foster, Inc
John Deere
Chester Wiswell
Aztec Street
Bethel Home
Brownback Makes Local Stops Tuesday and Wednesday
U S Senator Sam Brownback Republican from Topeka tours western Kansas on Tuesday visiting Garden City Dodge City Montezuma Sublette Liberal Moscow and Johnson. He will visit community groups schools and a wind energy site with multiple brief stops and a charity bell ringing.
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Sam Brownback
Kansas Children’s Service League
Ballinger
Target
E. Kansas Ave
Salvation Army
Brownback
United Way
Dodge City
Manna
Gray County
Montezuma
Sublette
Liberal
Moscow
Johnson
Stanton County High School
Moran to Speak at Wheat Growers Meeting in Garden City
Congressman Jerry Moran from Hays will address the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and Kansas Wheat Commission annual meeting in Garden City. He is scheduled to speak Monday from 2 to 2:30 p.m. at the Finney County 4-H Building, 209 Lake Avenue.
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Jerry Moran
Hays
Kansas Association of Wheat Growers
Kansas Wheat Commission
Garden City
Moran
Finney County 4-H
Lake Avenue
South Main Street Reopens After Reconstruction Work
South Main Street from Maple Street to the Arkansas River bridge opened to traffic Wednesday afternoon after reconstruction. The city project laid 9 inch concrete and added a right turn lane into Charles Peebles Complex. A detour directed traffic to the bypass to reach US Highway 83 instead of turning onto US 88.
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South Main
Maple Street
Arkansas River Bridge
Charles Peebles Complex
Main Street
Library trustees meet Monday to discuss director search
Finney County Public Library Board of Trustees will convene at 4 30 p m Monday at 605 E Walnut St to discuss the search for a new library director and related matters.
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Finney County Public Library Board of Trustees
Walnut St
Santa to visit Commerce Bank downtown Saturday
The Greater Downtown Association brings Santa Claus to Commerce Bank at 215 N Main St this Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. All welcome. For road updates call 1-800-585-7623.
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Greater Downtown Association
Santa Claus
Commerce Bank
N. Main St
Westar probe request withdrawn after new CEO named
Kansas Industrial Consumers asked the Kansas Corporation Commission to halt a rate and management investigation to allow Westar Energy time to adjust to the new CEO Jim Haines. The request follows the Nov. 8 restructuring order as Westar battles debt and regulatory issues. Westar shares rose to $11.42.
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Topeka
Kansas
Westar Energy Inc
Jim Zakoura
Kansas Industrial Consumers
Kansas Corporation Commission
KIC
KCC
Westar
Jim Haines
David Wittig
Wittig
Zakoura
Rosemary Foreman
Foreman
600-acre Reno County community eyed near Prairie Dunes
An Arizona developer plans a 600 acre unincorporated Reno County project anchored by an 18 hole public golf course. The proposal includes 550 single family homes 200 condos and town homes with retail offices a 10 acre park and an amphitheater. Zoning changes are sought with public hearings set for December 19 and a county commission vote on January 8.
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Neville
Hutchinson High School
Prairie Dunes Country Club
Reno County Planning, Zoning and Utilities Department
Reno County Commission
Larry Sharp
Reno County
Sharp
County Planning Board
Dave McComb
County Planning and Zoning
Wind farm near Leon hits snag
EL DORADO AP Kansas Wind Power LLC faces a setback as Butler County votes 2-1 to send the Leon wind farm proposal back to the planning commission. If approved again, a unanimous 3-0 county vote is required due to a 34 percent protest. A new partner, Pameda Wind Power, joins four other projects as the company weighs its chances amid wildlife and open-space concerns.
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EL Dorado
Kansas Wind Power LLC
Leon
Butler County Commission
County Planning Commission
Planning Commission
Kansas Wind Power
Pameda Wind Power
la Jolla
Calif
Butler County
Randy Doll
Doll
Kansas Wind Power and
Pameda
Life Hunts aids ill Mississippi, Alabama men in deer trip
In Petal Mississippi and Centre Alabama two young men with serious illnesses await a three day deer hunting trip in Kansas funded by local donors and Buckmasters. Josh Sullivan age 21 with Ewing sarcoma and Blake Sherrod age 18 with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva will travel with a hunter mentor and the group plans charity fundraisers and in kind donations to cover travel lodging meals and licenses.
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Larned
Josh Sullivan
Miss
Ewing
Blake Sherrod
Centre
Ala
Kansas
Buckmasters American Deer Foundation
Sullivan
Mississippi
Buckmasters
Tim Schaller
Pawnee
Sherrod
Schaller
Ricky Ray
Ricky
Blake
Life Hunt
Sherrod and Sullivan
Wichita
Don Do
Gina Hunter
West Nile cases in Kansas rise to 15 this year
Kansas health officials report six additional West Nile virus cases confirmed, bringing the total to 15 for the year. Victims range in ages 27 to 83 across Reno Clay Harper Ellis and other counties. all patients survived. KDHE notes 793 horses and 170 birds tested positive, with mosquitoes transmitting the virus via infected birds. Cold weather is expected to curb spread until next summer.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
KDHE
Cas
Reno County
Clay County
Harper County
Ellis County
Rice County
Johnson County
Pratt
Shawnee
Smith
Wyandotte
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Haines
el Paso Electric Co
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Stevens Park
Brad Nading
Slayton Grusing
Sammy Telford
Lakin Municipal Golf Course
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