West Franklin BOE race recount under way after four vote gap
In West Franklin, a recount is underway for the Board of Education race between Stacy Hower and Nancy Reed after a 449 to 445 result in Position 1. County Clerk Shaun Perry said a special committee will hand count ballots, with Osage County noting 47 votes cast in the race and potential cost implications depending on the outcome.
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Cleon Rickel
The
Ottawa Herald
Pat Maxwell
Donna Young
West Franklin School Board
Nancy Reed
Stacy Hower
Maxwell
Young
June Schultz
Louise Wray
Franklin County
Shaun Perry
Reed
Hower
West Franklin Board of Education
Perry
Osage
Osage County
Reed-Hower
West Franklin
Ottawa Schools grant could fund after-school programs
Hawthorne Elementary principal Becky Nevergold outlined a Community in Schools initiative seeking a 21st Century Community Learning Center grant. The Ottawa district could receive 75,000 to 100,000 annually for five years to support before or after-school programs with academic and cultural components, with sustainability and measurable outcomes required.
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Ottawa
Jodie Garcia Ward
Becky Nevergold
Hawthorne
Sume
Nevergold
YMCA pitch plans for Ottawa ORC management proposal
YMCA officials urged Ottawa city and school leaders to consider a management option for the Ottawa Recreation Commission. They outlined two paths executive management or an operational partnership, noting the move would not strip local control amid ORC leadership transition.
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YMCA
Ottawa Recreation Commission
Gene Dooley
Ymca of Greater
Kansas City
Paul Smith
Ottawa
ORC
Nancy Baker
ORC Commission
Smith
Bombing Near Baghdad Kills 16 At Police Station
A woman dressed in a black abaya detonated explosives at the Muqdadiyah police station gate northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 16 and wounding 33 as U S and Iraqi forces fight gunmen in Fadhil and Sheik Omar. An American helicopter came under ground fire during the clashes.
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Baghdad
Muqdadiyah
Abdul Salam al-Jibour
Muqdadiyah General
U.S
Lane City swears in new council members and plans water plant
New Lane City Council members Deanna Carroll and Amanda Herman take oaths as Pamela Timblin and Mayor Bill Chester are re elected. Herman named council president. Plans for a near complete water filtration plant move toward bids after state approval with a $190000 federal grant and a state loan funding remaining costs. Construction to start after bid winner and plant to open next January.
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New Lane City
Deanna Carroll
Amanda Herman
Waddle
Lane City
Tammy Mitchell
Herman
Carroll
Pamela Timblin
Bill Chester
LANE
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Chester
Rantoul
Franklin County
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