Realistic active shooter drill at Wellsville High School
Franklin County Emergency Management and sheriff officials led a full scale drill at Wellsville High School on in service day. Teachers staff and selected students observed two scenarios with medic makeup to simulate wounds. Participants said the exercise felt real and stressed the need to improve plans for student safety.
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Wellsville High School
Franklin County Emergency Management
Franklin County Sheriff’s Office
Franklin County
Wellsville
Jerry Henn
Curtis Hall
Snakes thrill students at Earth Day festival in Ottawa
Molly Spencer, an Osawatomie High School sophomore, guides an 11 foot boa constrictor as Wellsville sixth graders touch the snake and learn about species during the 14th Annual Franklin County Conservation District Earth Day Festival. About 150 students from county schools attended the event at Celebration Hall on the county fairgrounds in Ottawa with a Kansas Wildlife and Parks presentation.
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Molly Spencer
Osawatomie
Wellsville
Franklin County Conservation District
Celebration Hall
S. Elm St
Ottawa
The
Kansas Wildlife and Parks
County approves pavement bid for Proximity Park roads
Franklin County commissioners approved a 5.4 million dollar bid from Ebert Construction to pave three lanes east of Highway 59 to I 35 and north to I 35. The project spans 315 acres bordered by I 35 Kingman Road Montana Road and Rock Creek, with funding largely from a prior 7 million bond issue.
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Proximity Park
Board of
Franklin County Commissioners
Ebert Construction Company, Inc
Wamego
Ebert
Jim Haag
Randy Renaud
Commission
Derek Brown
Bartlett & West
Kingman Road
Montana Road
Rock Creek
Montana and
Kingman
Haag
Renaud
Franklin County
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Henn
Sam Leckner
Leckner
Kaylie Reese
Jeff Gulley
Ottawa Herald
Franklin County Sheriff's Office
Greg Mast
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