City clears doubt by ruling Alvamar Hills Golf Course in PUD
City commissioners unanimously decide the Alvamar Hills Golf Course is part of the Alvamar PUD with mayoral abstention. The ruling allows residents to protest future development on the course, and removes a housing area from the plan while adding provisions to the use per review request. Milton Allen warns the issue is legally ambiguous and urges formal legislative action.
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Alvamar Planned Unit
Alvamar
Fred Pence
Milton Allen
Allen
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Dick McClanathan
Planning Commission
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McClanathan
John Emerson
Planning Department
Immel
Ryan
Marnie Argersinger
Carl Mibeck
Mibeck
Argersinger
Don Binns
Emerson
John Langstrum
John McGrew
Bob Billings
John
Bob
Clark
Billings
Pence
Court, city clash over Alvamar golf course and parking lot plan
City board rejects a rezoning request for a West 22nd Street Terrace parking lot amid neighbor protests and a dispute over a golf course in the Alvamar PUD. Developers defend plans while officials link changes to broader zoning and street projects and approve related land uses and infrastructure work.
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West 22Nd Street Terrace
Ken Whitenight
Subsoil Dryness Raises Drought Pressure in County
The county Extension director notes subsoil drought combines with a dry winter and back-to-back droughts. Grasshoppers and Army norms worsen conditions as farmers face field-by-field challenges. Subsoil moisture is low with water lacking from top to bottom, requiring a good rain soon.
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van Meter
Drought and Blood Drive Update Across Kansas and Region
The Red Cross drive collected 167 pints to reach 304 after two days and aimed for 146 more before today’s 2 pm close. County officials warn drought threatens corn, wheat, alfalfa as subsoil moisture runs low, with USDA noting distress in western corn belt though some regions stay fair to good.
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Wichita
Missouri
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Oklahoma
Colorado
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Iowa
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Kansas Atty Gen Rejects Many Bingo Regulations
Topeka Kansas AP Atty Gen Curt Schneider dis approves many emergency rules proposed by Revenue Sec F Kent Kalb for bingo regulation. He notes the act is brief with 10 sections and that the secretary lacks authority to regulate all aspects. He says only rules necessary to administer and enforce the act are valid.
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Topeka
Kan
Curt Schneider
Secretary of Revenue
Kent Kalb
Kansas
Schneider
Kalb
Haskell Indian Junior College Weekend Events
After a week of placement testing new students at Haskell Indian Junior College will enjoy a watermelon feed Friday afternoon with city officials in aprons. Larry Danielson of the Chamber of Commerce says the aim is a personal atmosphere between officials and students. A 90-minute Monday bus tour of Lawrence with local businessmen as guides follows, then 300 students will travel to Kansas City to see the Chiefs play the Lions Saturday.
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Haskell Indian Junior College
Larry Danielson
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
Kansas City Chiefs
Detroit Lions
Kansas City
Jaworski links Nixon tapes greed to survival during Watergate
Former special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski says Nixon would have survived in office if he had destroyed the tapes. In his book The Right and the Power he argues the tapes were valued money and power drove Nixon, with a Houston release timed today by Gulf Publishing.
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Houston
Houston Post
Jaworski
Nixon
Ford
Oval Office
Sen
James Eastland
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Airman Thomas F. Kievian Assigned to Chanute AFB
Airman Thomas F. Kievian son of Mr and Mrs Harold F Kievian Jr residing at 608 W 27th completed basic training and is assigned to Chanute AFB Illinois by the Air Force.
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Thomas F. Kievian
Harold F. Kievian Jr
W. 27Th
Chanute Afb
Air Force
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