Kansans approve crime, education, ethics reforms in session
lawmakers push a broad package including stricter crime penalties for certain murders and predators while advancing two education reform bills enabling charter schools and after hours programs. The ethics package requires inaugural donors' names and spending, and a joint oversight panel will monitor reforms.
Deaths and memorial services in Kansas Nebraska area
Obituaries note Kenneth H. Toebben 71 of Nickerson with services at St. Pauls Lutheran Arlington and burial at St. Pauls Cemetery. Also listed are memorials for Edward Betlock, Sam Anderson, and James Murray with services in Lawrence Chanute Baldwin and multiple survivors, and donations to memorial funds or KU library.
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Neb
Kenneth H. Toebben
Nickerson
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Michael L. Rogers
U.S
American Legion Post 71
St. Paul’s Cemetery
Toebben
Memorial Hospital
Fremont
Henry C
Emma Giesselman Toebben
U.S. Marine Corps
St. Paul
Loraine Feyerherm
West Point
Gary
Lawrence
Kan
Beverly
Mandeville
Susan Wolfe
Delmer
Ralston
Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home
The
American Cancer Society
James Freeman
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Melvina
Rumsey Funeral Home
Springfield
Patrick Joseph
Agnes Murphy Moore
Fort Scott
S.H. Kress Stores
Parsons
Alexandria
Webb City
Tg&y
Kansas City
First Presbyterian Church
Sertoma
Lion's Clubs
Mr. Moore
Valetta Howard
Mary Ellen Fielder
Mentone
Ala
Melinda Jane Brage
Lincoln
Edward
James Watson Murray
Warren McEwain
Murray
Joseph
Agnes Anderson Murray
Lawrence High School
Kansas University
Philippines
Japan
KU Athletic Department
James Murray
Prairie Village
Douglas Murray
Dallas
Wendy Murray
Longmont
Colo
Jean Jones
Kalamazoo
Mich
Andrew Murray
Richmond
Ryan Gray
Baldwin
Edward H. Betlock
Minnetonka
Minn
Excelsior
Resurrection Cemetery
Shorewood
Betlock
Farmington
Hannah Peterson Betlock
Standard Oil Company
Mary Evelyn Landhamer
Mankato
Connie
Eudora
Janet Kurtz
Daniel
Bloomington
David
Wayzata
Willard
St. Joseph
Francis
Osprey
Fla
Robert
Hillsboro
Warren McElwain
Huber Funeral Home
Second St
Sam Follett Anderson
Elmwood
Chanute
Anderson
Paris Follett
Kansas
Colorado Springs
University of Chicago
Summerfield
Harvard University
H. Bernard Fink
Europe
Harvard
Stanford University
University of California At Berkeley
St. James Anglican
Pamela Hughes
Lubbock
Tex
Skip Anderson
Mansfield
Texas
Spencer Research
Department of Special Collections
Lawrence Tourism Push Highlights New Welcome Center
Tourism chief Commissioner Bob Schulte outlines Lawrence plans to raise visitor numbers with a $104 million impact from lodging and dining. A new welcome center at Union Pacific Depot in North Lawrence opens next year and proposals for a pedestrian path to Kansas University surface. The bureau will market Lawrence as a motorcoach stop en route to Colorado skiing and Missouri and Tennessee for country music, while avoiding Branson-like scale.
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Bob Schulte
Schulte
Union Pacific Depot
Lawrence
Kansas University
Disney World
Colorado
Missouri
Tennessee
Branson
Brown
Leaks Threaten Historic Carnegie Library Building in Dodge City
The 1907 red brick former library built by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation faces damag e from years of roof leaks. The Dodge City Area Arts Council seeks nearly 225 000 for a new roof and repairs, with an 85 000 Heritage Trust Fund grant and fundraising efforts underway to save the 87 year old structure.
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Dancer City
Andrew Carnegie Foundation
Lise Sinclair
Dodge City
Arts Council
Carnegie
Sinclair
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Tj.” Moore
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