Colleges re-examine safety after Virginia Tech shooting
Following the Virginia Tech massacre, Neosho County Community College and Ottawa University review safety procedures. Neosho updates its emergency action plan to align with federal guidelines and enhances its text messaging and urgent voicemail alert systems. Chanute campus students can trigger direct 911 Center contact via Code Blue poles.
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Neosho
Secu
Rity Committee
Chanute
Neosho County
Ottawa seeks outside help to recruit new city manager
City commissioners discussed hiring help from the League of Kansas Municipalities and the Austin Peters Group to find Weldon Padgett’s successor after his resignation. The May retreat will refine desired candidate characteristics as fees for records copying and research are set to change. A parking lot project bid from Killough Construction for First and is approved at $185,462.
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Ottawa
Weldon Padgett
League of Kansas Municipalities
Austin Peters
League
Blake Jorgensen
Deb Henningsen
Killough Construction
Principal shaves head after student testing goals met
Carmen Schaefer, Ottawa Middle School assistant principal and athletic director, helps shave Principal Randy Oliver’s head as students take turns with clippers Friday. Oliver said 83.5 percent met or exceeded state testing standards, and praised the students’ performance.
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Carmen Schaefer
Ottawa Middle School
Randy Oliver
Oliver
Governor signs budget vetoes hospital deal language
Governor Kathleen Sebelius signed a 12.3 billion budget while vetoing a clause restricting an affiliation between the University of Kansas Medical Center and St. Luke's in Kansas City. She argued existing oversight protects medical education and that the agreement would require Regents approval. The deal would let KU medical residents work at St. Luke's, a concern for KU Hospital and Kansas doctors. Hospital leaders praised the veto as maintaining momentum toward a broader agreement.
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Associated Press
Topeka
Kathleen Sebelius
University of Kansas Medical Center
St. Luke’s
Kansas City
Sebelius
Kansas
Board of Regents
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Kansas Hospital
Kansas City, Kan
George Farha
Wichita
Medical Center
Ottawa District names new high school principal and special education director
Ottawa School Board approved Rick Johnson as Ottawa High School principal and Cindy Goering to lead special education. Johnson, former Hiawatha principal, has 13 years of administration and 10 years as principal. Goering was Paola Middle School principal for eight years and a former special education teacher.
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Herald
Ottawa
Ottawa Chans
Semuvea
Rick Johnson
Ottawa High School
Cindy Goering
Special Education
Johnson
Hiawatha
Dean Katt
Katt
Justin Henry
Southeast of Saline
Goering
Chuck Wood
Paola Middle School
Paola
Blood pressure checks for seniors end at church outreach
Jim Ralston, 82, Ottawa, had his blood pressure checked by Terri Turner at the First United Methodist Church on Monday. The Healthy Congregation In Action team completed its final day of free blood pressure and glucose tests for seniors, offered the fourth Monday monthly under an 18 month grant from June 2006 provided by the United Methodist Church, led by Cheryl Allen.
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Jim Ralston
Ottawa
Terri Turner
First United Methodist Church
Congregation In Action
United Methodist Church
Cheryl Allen
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