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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 2002
Page
7
Partly cloudy and breezy tonight with mid 70s lows. Thursday shows partly cloudy skies with a 30 percent storm chance and mid 90s highs. Thursday night also has a 30 percent storm chance and lows in the lower 70s.
Franklin County resident Chet Leach plans a counter-claim in county district court over the easement purchase. Attorney Price Banks says the county refused Leach’s alternate deal and negations, leaving him with insufficient road frontage for business. The county earlier valued the land at 875 per acre for 1/100 acre needed for road work, while Leach countered with a 23000 offer plus a chain-link fence installation.
Franklin County commissioners meet at 7 p.m. in the county annex for the final budget hearing of 2002-2003. Officials expect cuts up to percent across departments with road and bridge and noxious weed hit hardest, though salaries are spared. Extension office reps may urge support for the 4 H program amid possible $40,000 reductions.
Franklin County Sheriff Craig Davis reopened the 1992 Branson murder inquiry after a 1996 DNA hint suggested foreign blood. About a dozen suspects remain viable as DNA testing plans await a targeted lead, with key witnesses recalling a normal day for Doris Branson who was stabbed over 50 times.
At the Ottawa budget hearing Jane Morton urged the Ottawa City Commission to fund recreation facilities for 2004, noting the ORC’s one mill levy will expire next year and a new plan is needed to avoid losing support. The discussion referenced Orls Cox Field, nine major tournaments, and the Vision report backing recreation as a key city priority.
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