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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 2002
Page
7
Fire chief rips through blaze near Rantoul kitchen
Assistant fire chief Alan Leroy of Cutler Township Fire Department battles hot spots in a Vermont Road house razed by Thursday morning fire. High winds hampered crews from Cutler and Wellsville, worsening a grass fire north of the home. Leroy had earlier fought a fire at his own K-68 residence last Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Leroy
Cutler Township
Rantoul
Vermont Road
Cutler
Wellsville
Leroy
Plan splitting Ottawa passed TOPEKA House redraws 125 districts
The Kansas House approved a redistricting bill by 105 to 16 sending it to the Senate. The map creates four new districts pairing four Democrats in two seats and pits incumbents against each other in others. It splits Ottawa and Franklin County, with Tanner and Feuerborn opposing the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Ottawa
Franklin County
Ralph Tanner
R-Baldwin
Wellsville
Sth
Bill Feuerborn
D-Garnett
Lane
Rantoul
Tanner
Feuerborn
Joe Hummerick
Pomona
Stanley Dreher
Riola
Williamsburg
Princeton
Richmond
Fort Scott
Dennis Pyle
R-Hiawatha
Bruce Larkin
D-Baileyville
Pyle-Larkin
Bill Reardon
Kansas City
Pyle
Plagiarism case draws attention to an old problem
A Piper High School board decision to grant partial credit for plagiarized biology projects sparks debate. Teachers note cheating remains the core issue while praising administrators who enforce policy. Education officials say boards rarely overrule teachers when facts are clear. The story surveys reactions from Prairie Fire University and local educators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezra Sykes
Piper School Board
Bruce Lindskog
Prairie Fire Unisery
Kansas National Education Association
Piper High School
Christine Pelton
Pelton
Lindskog
Ottawa
Kay Haas
Ottawa High School
Olathe
Haas
Piper
Board of Education
OHS
Darren Dennis
Dennis
Katie Ecroyd
Ecroyd
Kansas
Rex Cummings
Cummings
Associated Press
Esykes
Ottawaherald
Piper High plagiarism probe opens in Kansas City
Wyandotte County District Attorney Nick Tomasic began deposition style testimony in a case involving Piper High School. Subpoenas named Piper school board members, district administrators, and biology teacher Christine Pelton, who resigned after 28 sophomores faced zeros for a botany project plagiarism claim. The DA is investigating possible Open Meetings Act violations over private discussions and a grading change without a public vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City, Kan
Wyandotte County
Piper High School
Nick Tomasic
Piper School Board
Christine Pelton
Pelton
Kansas
Tomasic
Graves expects tax hike to close Kansas budget gap
Gov. Bill Graves says the $426 million shortfall for fiscal 2003 will push legislators to raise taxes. He has proposed $228 million in higher taxes to protect education and social services and plans continued outreach to lawmakers and interest groups to sell the revenue package.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Bill Graves
Graves
Associated Press
Kansas Press Association
Farm Bureau
Grass fire crews quell grass and barn blazes near Ottawa
Korey Ward and Jimmy Cox fought a grass fire sparked by a barn blaze at 2305 Pawnee Road on Thursday afternoon. Lincoln Township and Centropolis Township departments along with the City of Ottawa Fire Department assisted Ottawa Township fire crews to contain another building fire and control the grass fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Township
Korey Ward
Jimmy Cox
Pawnee Road
Lincoln
Centropolis
City of Ottawa Fire Department
Ottawa Township
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