Finney County Opens Weekend Advance Voting Hours
Finney County Clerk's office will operate 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday for advance voting at the County Administrative Center. First-time voters must show ID. General Election polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at all voting locations. Voters may check their polling place at MyVoteInfo.
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Finney County
Ninth St
Haunted house planned in Scott City
A haunted house operates tonight from 5 30 to 8 p m in Scott City on Russell Street. Food sales raise funds for Park on the Plains and the upcoming community playground project with items including chili hot cocoa cider cookies popcorn balls and a five meal family deal for twenty dollars.
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Russell Street
Scott City
Plains
Garden City Catholic Schools Alumni & Friends Meeting
Parents alumni and supporters are invited to a 7 p.m. Monday gathering at St. Dominic 615 J.C. St. to discuss the association newsletter and plan activities for Catholic Schools Week with Jean Clifford contact 276 4317 for details
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St. Mary School
St. Dominic School
Garden City Catholic Schools Alumni & Friends Association
St. Dominic
J.C. St
Jean Clifford
Mercer Gallery opens Sunday with Ron Michael exhibit
A Kansas art show opens Sunday at Mercer Gallery in Garden City Community College featuring ceramic vessels and sculpture by Ron Michael, Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery curator. Viewing hours are 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays and 12 to 4 p.m. weekdays, through November 23, with December and January set for GCCC faculty show. Admission is free. the gallery is in the west wing of Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building.
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Mercer Gallery
Garden City Community College
Ron Michael
Lindsborg
Birger Sandzén
Kansas
GCCC
Pauline Joyce
Garden City High hosts math department open house
The Garden City High School math department invites the community to an open house from 6 30 to 8 p m on Tuesday in the Courtyard at 1412 N Main St. Attendees will join sessions on graphing calculators gizmos interactive software hands on activities online textbooks and helping your student with math. Ice cream will be served and election results will be posted throughout the evening.
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Garden City High School
GCHS
N. Main St
Driver's license offices to close for training day
The Garden City and Dodge City driver’s license offices will be closed on Wednesday for an in-service training day.
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Garden City
Dodge City
Write-ins Face Uphill Odds in Local Ballot Campaigns
Write-in bids appear unlikely to derail incumbents in Greeley and nearby counties as Linda Firner seeks county clerk against Jerri Young. Other races see sheriffs candidates in Hamilton and Haskell counties urging votes for write-in names while contested races across Wichita, Gray, Lane, and Hamilton counties feature incumbents facing challengers.
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Linda Firner
Greeley
Firner
Jerri Young
Young
Greeley County
Larry Phoenix
Haskell County
Hamilton County
Richard Garza
Briggs
Gray County Sheriff’s Office
Phoenix
Gray County
Jimmie Rice
James Kramer
Lane County
Vicki Jo Hubin
Register of Deeds
Janice Baczkowski
Crysta Torson
Chanda Bush
Charlie Fraley
Donald Wilson
Fraley
Wilson
Record numbers of Kansans register to vote in weeks before deadline
About 63,000 additional Kansans registered in five weeks boosting totals to 1.73 million with the Oct 20 deadline. Officials note strong turnout potential as Obama and McCain campaigns mobilize volunteers and advance voting surges top 2004 records. Kansas parties report aggressive registration drives and rising voter interest nationwide.
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Topeka
Mary Kay Culp
Kansans For Life
Ron Thornburgh
Thornburgh
Kansas
Secretary of State
Sonny Scroggins
Barack Obama
Fort Leavenworth
el Dorado
Scroggins
John McCain
Alaska
Sarah Palin
Obama
Democratic Party
Jenny Davidson
Christian Morgan
GOP
Morgan
Kansas State Fair
Weekend pheasant season meals offered across counties
Gray County hosts a free will donation pheasant hunters dinner at Cimarron United Methodist Church from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday featuring chili ham and beans chicken noodle soup sandwiches and desserts. Scott County Knights of Columbus host a $7 traditional Thanksgiving dinner Sunday at William Carpenter 4-H building Scott County Fairgrounds. Greeley County Fire Department offers a hunters breakfast from 4 30 to 10 30 a.m. MT at the Tribune 4 H building with proceeds to youth groups. Haskell County American Legion Sublette hosts a mountain oyster fry at 5 30 tonight.
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Gray County
Cimarron United Methodist Church
Scott County
Knights of Columbus
William Carpenter
Greeley County
Tribune
Haskell County
The
American Legion
Sublette
Probe alleges SRS abuses
A bipartisan Kansas Legislative agency will probe alleged pressure on social workers by prosecutors in child removal cases. The audit, statewide and broad in scope, will review the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and may prompt legislative changes if needed.
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Wichita
Kansas
Post
Leo Hafner
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Sedgwick
Hafner
Legislative Post
SRS
Don Jordan
Sedgwick County
Jordan
Nora Foulston
LPA
Michelle Ponce
Jean Schodorf
Michael O'Neal
Hutchinson
Schodorf
Stephen Six
Six
Kansas Attorney General’s Office
Social Services Committee
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