Tonganoxie orders phase one water restrictions during dry spell
Tonganoxie invoked phase one of its long standing water use ordinance as wells ran low amid a dry spell. Residents cannot wash cars water lawns or fill pools though the city pool remains full. Restrictions stay until the mayor lifts them with more drought measures possible if the dry spell continues.
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Tonganoxie
Herb Robbins
Karen Walters
Bonner Springs
Dorothy Shaner
Lecompton
Ellenor Large
Linwood
McLouth
Stella Luse
Natural screening OK'd at lake site
Douglas County approved a site plan for a Clinton Lake boat storage facility with conditions that owner Jarvis Brink plant vines and trees along the fence to screen it from the road. The plan includes a 1,350 square foot convenience store and other facilities, tied to a 1980 rezoning request for Clinton Cove No. 2 subdivision.
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Clinton Lake State Park
Douglas County Commission
Jarvis Brink
Lawrence-Douglas County
Baker University names four to board of trustees
Baker University announced four new trustees to its Board of Trustees. The appointees are Rev. Marilyn Gregory Chanute United Methodist Church, Rev. Ronald E. Holland Shawnee Lenexa United Methodist Church, Elbert L. Anderson Coca Cola Bottling Co. Lenexa vice president of public affairs, and Rev. Charles B. Bennett Old Mission United Methodist Church. Terms run through June 1991 and include re-elected members Richard Knochs, Rev. Leon Hagen, Cecil Miller, and John W. Rynerson.
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Marilyn Gregory
Chanute
Bennett
Baker
Richard Knochs
Olathe
Leon H. Hagen
Ottawa
Cecil R. Miller
Shawnee Mission
John W. Rynerson
Bradenton
Fla
Miller
Jerry Holley
Topeka
G.D. Blackwood
Belleview
Don Parker
Leawood
Sam Perkins
Officials study ruins of Quindaro anti-slavery town
Representatives from Kansas City Kansas, the Kansas State Historical Society, and Browning-Ferris Industries agreed to a detailed study of Quindaro where remains of dozens of buildings were found. Officials say preservation is unlikely due to funding and landfill plans near the Missouri River in Wyandotte County.
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Kansas City, Kan
Kansas City Kan
Kansas State Historical Society
Browning-Ferris Industries Inc
Quindaro
John Reynolds
Missouri River
Wyandotte County
Teen-ager Drowns At Cheney Reservoir
Authorities recovered the body of 16 year old Patrick Jacob Taylor from six feet of water near Cheney Reservoirs west shore. Sheriff Jim Fountain identified the youth as Taylor, last seen on a raft that drifted toward mid lake after noon Tuesday. A 17 year old companion tried to rescue him but failed.
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Cheney
Cheney Reservoir
Reno
Jim Fountain
Patrick Jacob Taylor
Hutchinson
Taylor
Fountain
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Wellsville
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