City opens bids for engine generator to expand power plant
City officials opened four bids from Colt Industries Wisconsin DeLaval Turbine California Cooper Energy Services Ohio for a 6000 to 8820 KW engine generator. All bids under 2.6 million with final decision due at next week’s city commission meeting.
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Harris Rays
Colt Industries
Wisconsin
DeLaval Turbine
California
Cooper Energy Services
Ohio
Robert Mills
Mills
A. C. Kirkwood & Associates
DeLaval
Cooper
Ottawa boards inch toward leave policy and sabbatical plan
Ottawa teachers and the board tentatively agreed a leave policy and an amended sabbatical plan under which a teacher could take a year off without pay. Elderly and family illness provisions were clarified, and the sabbatical would avoid pay while preserving seniority. A sabbatical committee of six, three from OFA and three from the district, would review applications.
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Jay Bemis
Ottawa
Ottawa Education Association
OFA
Local Sales Tax A Reality in Ottawa
Ottawa shoppers faced a subtle price rise as the city’s new half cent sales tax took effect on goods within city limits. Merchants report little reaction while schedules were revised. state collection begins and roughly $200,000 yearly will fund street maintenance and repairs.
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Ottawa
Topeka
House Passes Food Tax Bill In Kansas Legislature
TOPEKA AP The Kansas House approved a bill to remove the 3 percent sales tax from grocery store food by an 86 to 38 vote and sent it to the Senate. Minority Leader Fred Weaver’s bid to delay final action failed 69 to 54 on a party line vote. County forecast calls for increasing cloudiness with light snow possible and lows from 5 below to 5 above, with Friday mostly cloudy and highs 15 to 20.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas House
Senate
Fred Weaver
Baxter Springs
Weaver
House
Local basketball teams on the road this weekend
Regional teams hit the road for weekend games with rival venues cited. Road trips feature matchups, travel notes, and expected crowd impact as squads chase wins away from home.
Officials decry Amtrak route cuts across Kansas
State and local leaders rail at Amtrak plan to drop the Lone Star service from Chicago to Houston and reroute the Southwest Limited via a northward Kansas route hitting Manhattan Salina and Hays. Adams cites low ridership and air competition with Oct 1 implementation looming. Chamber groups fear lost business from six cities as Rep Whittaker questions fate of the cuts.
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Wichita, Kan
Amtrak
Kansas
Brock Adams
Lone Star
Chicago
Houston
Kansas City
Wichita
Adams
Southwest Limited
Los Angeles
Southwest Kansas
Manhattan
Salina
Hays
Hutchinson
Dodge City
Garden City
County Puts Bridge Work On Ballot
Franklin County plans an April 3 ballot issue to authorize about 4.677 million dollars in revenue bonds to replace 51 deteriorating bridges. Bonds could require a mill levy increase, exact amount pending next week, with federal funds possible to ease tax impact.
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Harris Ray
Franklin County Commission
Leroy Wasmund
Franklin County
Wasmund
Greenwood
Pomona
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Bob Yakle
N. Sycamore
Mike Gullett
OEA
U.S.C
ECEAN
Jerry Mallet
Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Wichita City
Bob Whittaker
Fifth District
Mother Nature
Khomeini
Tehran
Iran
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
U.S
United States
Air France
Paris
Teng In
Georgia
Atlanta
Teng Hsiao-ping
Teng
Dobbins Air Force Base
Washington
George Busbee
Tong
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