Veterans' representatives visit Ottawa for free service
Kansas Commission on Veterans' Affairs will be in Ottawa at City Hall Library 1015 Hickory at 1 p.m. Tuesday to assist veterans and dependents with veteran service work. No appointment needed. For details call 785 843 5233. Also, 4 H photography meeting moved to Thursday 6:30 p.m. Celebration Hall fairgrounds. call 229 3520. Troop 74 hosts All You Can Eat Pancake Feed Sunday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at VFW Post 5901 Highway 59 North adults $4 children 8 and under $2.50.
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Veterans
Ottawa
Kansas Commission On Veterans' Affairs
City
Hickory
Celebration Hall
Fairgrounds
Boy Scout
VFW
Highway 59 North
Daily Report Hospital Notes and Police News Brief
Admissions include Wanda Ribeau Darrell Sieg both of Ottawa Ruth Peine Garnett Tuesday Dismissals include Carolyn Beeler Ottawa Dawn Johnson and son Garnett Kimberly Maloney and son Princeton Tuesday Thefts CDs and $100 stolen last week in the 2400 block of Highway 50 Loss 1190 Arrests Clyde G Atchison 39 815 E Walton arrested 1 41 a m Tuesday 1301 5 Main criminal damage to property released after agreeing to appear Corey M Black 18 1523 D Osage Dr arrested 11 31 a m Monday municipal warrant failure to appear released on 300 bond Larry W Leach 41 808 Tremont arrested 9 36 p m Tuesday 2214 Princeton DUI released municipal court Other Agencies Clinton Maurice Randall 23 Vassar arrested 2 30 p m Tuesday by the Drug Enforcement Unit Neosho Nevada Ottawa municipal warrant failure to appear and a Lawrence to appear released on 135 bond Non injury Feb 9 3 15 p m Bobby G Ussery 47 Princeton started to slide uphill on Oregon Road collided with vehicle driven by Timothy Walter Wendt 48 Princeton both wore seatbelts Damage over 500 6 p m Tuesday Bradley Thomas Poe 25 820 W Ninth backed from driveway on W Ninth and hit a parked 1997 Nissan Altima owned by Randy L Eeord Damage over 500 5 19 p m Tuesday Francis L Couch 81 1815 Princeton turned south from Sonic 1719 S Main and struck Floyd P Wright 82 923 Walnut who was turning into driveway Ambulance Medical emergency 1 56 p m Tuesday 700 block of S Cherry
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Wanda Ribeau
Darrell Sieg
Ottawa
Ruth Peine
Garnett
Carolyn Beeler
Dawn Johnson
Clyde G. Atchison
E. Walton
Main
Corey M. Black
Osage
Larry W. Leach
Tremont
Princeton
Clinton Maurice Randall
Bobby G. Ussery
Oregon Road
Timothy Walter Wendt
Bradley Thomas Poe
W. Ninth
Randy L. Eeord
Pomona
Poe
Francis L. Couch
S. Main
Floyd P. Wright
Walnut
S. Cherry
Debate over Kansas Lottery bill stalls airfare plan
Senators weigh extending the Kansas Lottery life while stripping a House backed plan to fund $4 million in airfare discounts for travelers to and from Wichita. The fight centers on keeping the lottery alive until 2008 with audits, amid party lines and a clash over revenue uses.
Businesses reopen after blast in Hutchinson Kansas
In Hutchinson Kansas AP authorities said all 18 businesses closed after a fatal gas explosion at Big Chief Mobile Home Park last month are set to reopen Wednesday with owners allowed to begin at 8 am A KP and L representative will restore power. The blast damaged two downtown stores and led to street barriers while a separate mobile home park explosion killed two people and prompted evacuations. Investigators believe gas leaked from a broken injection pipe in a salt storage cavern seven miles northwest of Hutchinson about 550 feet underground.
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Hutchinson, Kan
Big Chief
Dick Heitschmidt
Kp&l
Heitschmidt
Mobile Home Park
Hutchinson
Bowling League Marks 50 Years With Plaque
The Women's International Bowling Congress presented a plaque to the Ottawa Women's Bowling Association for a half century of league bowling. The display occurred Tuesday evening at Sunflower Lanes, 2040 5 Princeton Phata.
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Women’s International Bowling Congress
Ottawa Women’s Bowling Association
Sunflower Lanes
Princeton
Kansas board restores evolution to state science standards
The Kansas State Board of Education voted 7-3 to restore evolution as a central theory in the state science curriculum, replacing 1999 standards that de-emphasized it. The move affects tests to be given later this spring and marks a shift from prior criticism of keeping evolution out of core biology studies.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Board of Education
Carol Rupe
Wichita
Rupe
Sonny Rundell
Syracuse
Sue Gamble
Shawnee
Val DeFever
Independence
Janet Waugh
Kansas City
Bill Wagnon
Bruce Wyatt
Salina
Steve Abrams
Arkansas City
John Bacon
Olathe
Harold Voth
Haven
Abrams
Linda Holloway
Mary Douglass Brown
Charles Darwin
Center of
Biological Studies
Bill Graves
Boards of Education
Arizona
Alabama
Illinois
New Mexico
Texas
Nebraska
Kansas State Department of Education
Ksbe
State
Kansas lawmakers weigh gifts ban from lobbyists
In Topeka lawmakers study ethics bills banning all gifts from lobbyists to House and Senate members. Sen. David Adkins seeks equal standards with statewide officials and excutive branch, and a ban on hospitality. Debates include reporting exemptions and gift-value thresholds, with four bills SBs 94 117 285 286 under consideration.
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Topeka
House
Senate
David Adkins
R-Leawood
Adkins
Senate Elections and
Barbara Allen
State Ethics Commission
Allen
Overland Park
Ink
Water levels rise in Equus Beds aquifer near Wichita
USGS reports Equus Beds water levels have gained over 10 feet since 1993 due to reduced pumping and heavy rainfall. Artificial recharge begun in 1995 with Arkansas River water may bolster levels, restoring about 51 percent of prior depletion while some areas remain 20 feet below 1940s baselines. Wichita cut pumping and relies more on Cheney Reservoir. study covers Halstead recharge site data.
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Wichita
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Cristi Hansen
Department of
Halstead
Cheney
Ogallala
Kansas
House panel OKs school bill in Kansas budget action
The Kansas House Appropriations Committee backed a 2.6 billion public schools budget that adds 50 dollars per pupil in state aid without a tax raise. It raises elementary and secondary spending by 68 million, about 130 million short of the Education Department request, with potential cuts if revenue shortfalls persist. Leaders noted the proposal is a baseline for further trimming and funding may draw on tobacco settlement shares or Sunflower Foundation funds.
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Topeka
House Appropriations Committee
Department of Education
Clark Shultz
R-Lindsberg
Appropriations Subcommittee On Education
Shultz
Appropriations
Rocky Nichols
D-Topeka
Nichols
Doug Spangler
Ckansas City
Sunflower Foundation
Carla Stovall
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Spangler
Stovall
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Bulletin Board
Daily Report
Vassar
Drug Enforcement Unit
Neosho
Nevada
Lawrence
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
Mid-Continent
Paul Feleciano
Federal and State Affairs Committee
GOP
Joint Conference Committee
Lana Oleen
Manhattan
Mark Gilstrap
Carlos Mayans
Bowling League
Phata
Ron Bishog
Chamber
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