Federal funds aid Baker University Old Castle Hall restoration
Federal money under the Historic Sites Preservation Act will help restore Baker University’s 1858 Castle Hall housing a Baldwin area history museum. The National Park Service funds on a matching basis will be administered by the Kansas Historical Society once legislative budget approval is secured, with bids pending and work possible by summer or fall.
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Liege
Kansas
Baker University
National Park Service
Historic Sites’ Preservation Act
Kansas State Historical Society
Nyle Miller
The
Park Service
Historical Society For Administration
Miller
University
Historical Society
Miles Scotts
Baker
Public Meeting Weighs Clinton Reservoir Zoning Plans
The Citizens Coalition for Clinton holds a 7:30 p.m. session at the 4-H fairgrounds exhibit building to review private land zoning around Clinton Reservoir. Army Corps of Engineers and Lawrence Douglas County Planning Commission attend to share information. The meeting focuses on information rather than final zoning decisions and may lead to a later session and a steering committee report.
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Citizens’ Coalition For ‘Clinton
Clinton’ Reservoir
Fairgrounds
Dan Palmhurst
Army ‘Corps of Engineers
Lawrence-Douglas County
Palmquist
Coalition
Panel refuses to kill tax law in Kansas House
In TO PERA Kansas, the Assessment and Taxation Committee rejected 11-9 a motion to remove local sales tax authority. Rep. Walter Graber called the tax discriminatory, while Rep. Ruth Wilkin argued surrounding counties benefit via workers in trade centers.
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Pera
Kan
Assessment and Taxation Committee
Kansas House
Walter Graber
Pretty Prairie
Graber
Ruth Wilkin
Topeka
Man Convicted in Voluntary Manslaughter Case
A 23-year-old Blue Rapids man Donald W. Weyer was convicted in Manhattan of voluntary manslaughter for the Nov 22 1970 shooting death of Jerome Gronquist 19. He received a 15 year term from Riley County District Court Judge Ronald Infess after a venue change from Marshall County. The Kansas Supreme Court ordered a new trial due to improper jury instruction on manslaughter.
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Manhattan
Kan
Blue Rapids
Donald W. Weyer
Jerome Gronquist
Blue ‘Rapids
Weyer
Riley County
Ronald In‘fess
Marsahll’ County
Kansas Supreme Court
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Ed Marling
Inzany
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