Two vehicles collide on Kansas 96 in pass attempt
At 9 30 a m Thursday on Kansas Highway 96 Gordon W Strickert 51 of Dighton followed Donald J Hineman 56 of Dighton in a 1974 Ford truck Strickert attempting to pass as Hineman turned left into a private driveway Strickert a 1990 Ford pickup wore a seat belt and was transported to Lane County Hospital Hineman uninjured and not belted.
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Gordon W. Strickert
Dighton
Donald J. Hineman
Strickert
Hineman
RHP
Lane County Hospital
Garden City High to Host Red Cross Blood Drive
Garden City High School will host an American Red Cross blood drive from 8 30 a m to 2 p m Wednesday in Clifford Hope Auditorium. Sponsor Jane Schneider leads the drive with contact at jschneider gckschools com and appointments at 276 5170. Walk ins welcome.
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Garden City High School
American Red Cross
Clifford Hope Auditorium
GCHS
Jane Schneider
Jschneider
Gckschools
Santa Fe Trail RC&D Board Sets Monday Meeting
The Santa Fe Trail Resource Conservation and Development Board of Directors will hold its bi monthly meeting at 6 30 p m Monday in Lakin at the Veterans Memorial Building 207 N Main St. The session is open to the public and aims to advance grassroots development of the RC&D program across nine counties.
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Santa Fe Trail Resource Conservation and Development Board of Directors
Lakin
Veterans Memorial Building
N. Main St
Rc&d
Graff Reelected to Grain Sorghum Commission
Greg Graff, a Marienthal farmer, was reelected to represent west central Kansas on the Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission. The panel decides how the half cent per bushel check off funds are invested in research, market development, promotion, and education. Interested growers may file as candidates at extension offices, conservation districts, or the Kansas Department of Agriculture. Contact the commission at (866) 457-6446.
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Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission
Greg Graff
Kansas
County Conservation District
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Commission
GCPD to showcase Ident A Kid at Oktoberfest
The Garden City Police Department will display its Ident A Kid program at Oktoberfest held by the Knights of Columbus at 205 N Eighth St. Officers will hand out identification cards from noon to 2 p m, including a child�s right thumbprint and measurements to aid law enforcement if a child is lost or abducted.
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Garden City Police Department
Knights of Columbus
Eighth St
Hugoton considers nonbinding vote on police force fate
Hugoton City Council met with City Attorney Wayne Tate to plan a nonbinding Nov. 4 election on whether to disband the seven member police force and transfer enforcement to Stevens County Sheriff. Mayor council members weighed securing a tentative agreement with the county and sheriff before the vote, with Chief Hagman opposing the shift.
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Hugoton
Wayne Tate
Gillespie
Stevens County Sheriff’s Office
Tate
Stanton
Kearny
Sheriff’s Office
Frederick J. Hagman
GCCC Open House Showcases Fine Arts Programs
Nayielly Salas spent an hour at Garden City Community College open house and stayed to explore fine arts offerings. The event highlighted department reorganizations in drama and music, new director Corn Mancini, and expanded Art Patrons giving around 4000 dollars from signups.
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Brian McCallum
Garden City Community College
Nayielly Salas
GCCC
Salas
Coral
Skip” Mancini
Steve Thorson
Mancini
Art Patrons
Fine Arts
Kyra Fief
Gccc Fine Arts
Bruce Spiller
John Brownlee
Orson Scott Card
Clay Wright
McCallum
Ramona
SBC adds 81 towns to high speed Internet plan in Kansas
SBC Communications expands its DSL rollout to 81 additional towns including Holcomb Scott City and Sublette, bringing high speed Internet to 105 communities by next year as under the agreement with the Kansas Corporation Commission and the Citizens' Utility Ratepayers Board. The plan, aiming for access to 1000 plus lines, polishes a long running effort to replace dial up with faster data over existing phone lines.
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SBC
Topeka
Kansas
SBC Communications Inc
Kansas Corporation Commission
Citizens’ Utility Ratepayers Board
DSL
Southwestern Bell
Scott City
Sublette
KCC
ECC
SBC Adds 81 Communities to DSL Service List
The Associated Press reports SBC will extend limited DSL to 81 more communities in Kansas. Towns include Abilene Anthony Atchison Atwood Auburn Augusta Belleville Beloit Benton Blue Rapids Caney Carbondale Chanute Cheney Cherryvale Clay Center Colby Colwich Concordia Cottonwood Falls DeSoto Douglass Ellsworth Erie Eudora Eureka Fort Scott Goddard Goodland Greensburg Halstead Harper Herington Holcomb Hoxie Humboldt Iola Kechi Kingman Kinsley LaCrosse Lansing Lamed Lecompton Lincoln Lindsburg Lyons Marion Marysville Meade Medicine Lodge Minneapolis Mulvane Neodesha Norton Oakley Oberlin Paola Phillipsburg Plains Plainville Pratt Rose Hill Sabetha Scott City Sedan Sedgwick Seneca Smith Center St Francis Stockton Sublette Tonganoxie Topeka north area Valley Center Washington Waterville Wellington Whitewater Winfield Yates Center and others. The move broadens rural access as part of ongoing nationwide DSL expansion.
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Topeka
SBC
Abilene
Anthony
Atchison
Atwood
Auburn
Augusta
Belleville
Beloit
Benton
Blue Rapids
Caney
Carbondale
Chanute
Cheney
Cherryvale
Clay Center
Colby
Colwich
Concordia
Cottonwood Falls
DeSoto
Douglass
Ellsworth
Erie
Eudora
Eureka
Fort Scott
Goddard
Woman granted diversion in dental office embezzlement case
Kristina Prentice, 30, of Holcomb, was granted two and a half years diversion on September 8 for embezzling about $19,000 from Dr. Timothy Hanigan's dental practice between 2000 and 2001. Restitution set at about $2,480 over 18 months. civil suit settled for $6,500 with insurer paying $10,000. Hanigan pursued both civil and criminal actions, noting employee theft disrupted patient care.
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Hanigan
Kristina Prentice
N. Henderson, Holcomb
Finney County
Prentice
John Wheeler
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Santa Fe Trail Board
Graff
GCPD
Delton Brown
Hagman
Sheriff’s Department
Police Department
Geccks
James MacAllister
Broadbuster
Pittsburg
Holcomb
Timothy Hanigan
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