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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 2001
Page
8
Tonight cool with increasing clouds and a low near 40. Friday partly sunny with a high around 70. Winds light to south at 10 to 20 mph. For more weather, see Page 2.
Ottawa police and the FBI recovered parts of the B. Holt and John Henry Kilbuck collections stolen from Ottawa University in July 1994. About 100 pieces were believed stolen with no established value due to lack of prior appraisal. The case spanned 1994 to 1998 with multiple recoveries and arrests of suspects including Chris Roth, Michael Crump, and Ronald Conway.
Students, parents, teachers and board members joined a wind battered ground breaking in Wellsville for an $8.7 million elementary school. Superintendent Denise O D Oea spoke via police PA while fourth graders wore hard hats and helped shovel, as the community celebrated a new building to serve local kids.
The Ottawa Planning Commission ranked a new police station as the main 2002 Capital Improvement Program project, along with a stormwater study and transportation upgrades on streets and at the airport. Police Chief Jeff Herrman said the current station at Second and Ash is inadequate, while commissioners emphasized the need for a new facility and improved drainage, particularly near Davis Road and the industrial park.
Powerful winds swept through Ottawa and surrounding county causing barn roofs to be ripped off and farm sheds destroyed on Neosho Road. Gusts hit 85 mph with many around 40 mph as a cedar downed power lines cutting service to about 2,500 homes in eastern Franklin County. Sheriff’s spokesman urged residents to report damage, and a tractor trailer overturned on I-35 injuring no one.
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