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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 2000
Page
7
Ottawa High School’s top doubles pair captured the championship at the Ottawa Invitational. The victory confirms their status as the tournament’s top pair, completing a standout performance through the event. Scores and finalists are listed on Page 7.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low near 42. Light to variable winds. Wednesday brings warmer conditions and mostly sunny skies with a high around 75 and south winds 5 to 15 mph. More details on page 2A.
Ottawa Board of Education gave the Friends of Historic Buildings a chance to save Ottawa Middle School by placing a 1/4 cent sales tax on the August ballot. If funded, the building could become a Franklin County Community Center. if not, it will be demolished. The board also moved to seek demolition bids and asked the group to drop its historic designation application.
The Friends of Historic Buildings fight to save the former Ottawa middle school by proposing a 1/4 cent sales tax to convert it into the Franklin County Community Center. Ottawa Board of Education backs the plan if it reaches the August primary ballot, with county and state lawmakers weighing authority to raise the tax.
Ottawa city commissioners approved a 3-2 vote to set the minimum overtime parking fine at five dollars with final action due in May. Current rules show two hour downtown limits with signs. police say municipal court fines commonly top twenty- five dollars, though a five hundred dollar maximum exists on paper. Opposition sought ten dollars. motion also created a ten dollar minimum for vehicles lingering past back line limits.
Franklin County Judge Sachse sentenced 34 year old Dodd Larue Proctor to 30 days shock time in jail as a probation condition after he pleaded no contest to issuing a criminal threat and two counts of aiding or abetting threats. Proctor faced potential prison time for criminal discharge of a firearm into an occupied dwelling, a charge dropped during plea talks. Prosecutor Meier sought incarceration, but the judge cited state choices limiting sentences. Witness Shane Del Heberling, identified as the gunman by testimony, remains wanted on a bench warrant and unavailable for service, complicating the case.
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