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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 2007
Page
6
Ottawa city commissioners delay a planned 2 mill tax cut after a state revenue miscalculation over inflated sales tax receipts. Staff recommends keeping the mill levy at 39.433 mills for the coming year, with a budget hearing slated for 7 p.m. August 22 at City Hall.
The Herald reports a teenager linked to a minicrime spree appeared in court with another hearing set for August 20 for Bradley Butter, 19. Butter is suspected of aggravated robbery and related charges after allegedly stealing a pellet pistol from Wal-Mart and robbing Ottawa Mini Mart before attempting to carjack a 42-year-old woman outside Country Mart.
State reports corn soybeans and sorghum maturity slightly behind last year yet most crops rated good or excellent. Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service notes 62 percent of corn in the dough stage, 16 percent dented, with 1 percent very poor and 13 percent excellent.
An immersion exhibit in Ottawa uses dark rooms, murmuring night sounds, and digitized murals to reenact the May 24 1856 Pottawatomie Creek killings led by John Brown. Letters from victims wives and Brown’s brother-in-law are read in audio segments.
Local dairy operator Will Newhouse announced the closure of Newhouse Dairy, citing personal weariness, rising fuel utilities and feed costs, and difficulty finding workers. The Kansas bottler had pioneered processing milk and selling in glass bottles, a model copied by two nearby dairies and studied by others.
Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican with a history of easy re elections, faces expected criticism as Intelligence Committee chair. He warns about anti group money in ads while having raised over 2.3 million dollars for the campaign.
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