Labor Day Closings In Garden City And Holcomb
Labor Day closures affect Garden City and Holcomb with post offices and many local government offices including city offices, county offices, courts, libraries, museums, and schools all shut Monday. Some mail will still be delivered to Garden City boxes while banks and other services suspend operations. The Telegram will not publish Monday and will resume Tuesday.
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Garden City
Holcomb
Garden City City
Holcomb City
Finney County
Animal Shelter
Finney County Public Library
Finney County Historical Museum
Fairgrounds Host Weekend Events in Finney County
The Finney County Fairgrounds host three events this weekend. Garden Valley Church leads Praise Day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday in the Exhibition Building parking lot with free public access. Sunday features the Straight from the Street Car Show with 16 categories, admission $5, entry $25, registration 8 a.m. to noon, show 12 noon to 6 p.m. Local organizer Jesse Nunez notes the hydraulic competition is serious. Also Saturday and Sunday, the SBRA Barrel Race runs from 2 p.m. for about two hours. a combined jackpot goes to the winner.
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Finney County Fairgrounds
Garden Valley Church
Exhibition Building
Jesse Nunez
Denver
SBRA
Train derailment near Hutchinson triggers evacuations
A 17 car Kansas and eps Railroad train derailed in South Hutchinson Tuesday night causing the evacuation of 40 to 50 homes. Two tanker cars carried ethanol spilled 30,000 gallons into a ditch. Crews worked to contain fuel and right the car as special equipment was awaited. No injuries were reported.
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South Hutchinson
Scott Jones
Reno County
Dennis Storer
Kansas and Eps
Hutchinson
Wichita
Jim Wineland
K&o
Jones
Garden City Ordinance Raises Penalties for DUI and Battery
Garden City adopts tougher penalties aligning with its Uniform Public Defense Code. New rules increase fines for child restraint and seat belt violations, raise DUI jail time, and allow stacking of battery related offenses. No valid license penalties rise to five days in jail for second offenses, with potential 30 days for third.
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Randy Grisell
Garden City
GCPD
le Up
Grisell
Finney County
Yvette Wilson
Kansas ranchers push Japan to lift U S beef ban
Kansas ranchers hosted Japanese journalist Takuya Nishimura in Maple Hill to showcase Hereford cattle and explain safety safeguards as they press to reopen Japan’s market. Congressman Moran urges action, citing a 10 percent income hit for exporters and potential tariffs if Japan stalls.
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Takuya Nishimura
Washington
D.C
U.S
Nishimura
Yoshinoga
Japan
Kansas Livestock Association
Dee Likes
Jerry Moran
Kansas
Doshin
Hokkaido
Flint Hills
Maple Hill
Moran
U.S. House
Wabaunsee County
Raymond Adams
Holcomb teachers, USD 363, negotiate contract terms
The Holcomb USD 363 Board of Education met in a closed session to discuss retirement benefits maternity leave and other contract items with teachers. A Sept 8 negotiation session is set at Holcomb High School after the Aug 4 meeting was canceled for more review time. Martin Cook resigned as a physical education teacher at Holcomb and Wiley Elementary.
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Holcomb
USD 368
USD 363
Board of Education
Skip Landis
Kansas National Education Association
Matisha Stanton
Stanton
Landis
Holcomb High School
N. Jones
Martin Cook
Cook
Holcomb and
Wiley
Sebelius presses eminent domain safeguards in Kansas
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius told Kansas farmers that the Supreme Court ruling allowing eminent domain for private development raises concerns, urging next year's Legislature to draft balanced laws. A draft bill would protect homesteads and farms while tightening rights for commercial land, amid Sedgwick County loss of agricultural land to urban sprawl.
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Wichita
Kathleen Sebelius
U.S. Supreme Court
Sebelius
Kansas Farm Bureau Farm and Ranch
Sedgwick County
Supreme Court
Kansas
Senate
Derek Schmidt
Kansas Farm Bureau
New Orleans patients flown to Kansas City for safety
Twenty seven young patients from a hurricane ravaged New Orleans hospital were flown to Kansas City on two Missouri Air National Guard C 130 planes. Children's Mercy Hospital agreed to take the children, sending a team to New Orleans to arrange the transfer from Children's Hospital. Randall O'Donnell of the Kansas City hospital and the New Orleans counterpart coordinated the move with Sen. Kit Bond's office assisting.
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Kansas City
New Orleans
Missouri Air National Guard
Children’s Mercy Hospital of
Children’s Hospital
Randall O'Donnell
Tom McCormally
The
Kansas
Gulf Area
Colorado
Gulfport
Miss
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Bank of America Citizens State Bank
Commerce Bank
Commercial Federal Bank
Farm Credit of Garden
Dan Hutchins
Golf USA
East Mary Street
Bush
Mike Johanns
Kansans
Pacific Rim
Likes
China
Matt Teagarden
the Livestock Association
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