Great Red Fox Caper Featured on PBS Nature in Ottawa
Ottawa and rural Princeton are highlighted in a Nature segment about red foxes stealing newspapers from driveways and porches. James Donald produced the piece after tracing the story from the Ottawa Herald, with local residents including dentist Steve Thompson giving accounts of the caper.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Red Fox
Public Broadcasting System
Wild Kingdom
Princeton
James Donald
Associated Press
Ottawa Herald
The
Herald
Kansas City Star
Rockwood
Ern
Donald
Steve Thompson
Thompson
Lionel Sutton
Charles Gillette
Debbie
Nature
Franklin County Spelling Bee crowns Gillaspie winner
Ottawa Middle School eighth-grader Miranda Gillaspie captured first place by correctly spelling hyphen, earning a state bee berth for Topeka in March. Shanda Baer, Jayc Prough, and 41 county students competed Thursday at Central Heights as librarian Shanna Richards congratulated top finishers.
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Appanoose
Shanda Baer
Central Heights
Shanna Richards
Franklin County
Ottawa
Miranda Gillaspie
Wellsville Middle School
Jayc Prough
Gillaspie
Topeka
Ottawaherald.com
HUD Foreclosure Set on Walnut Plaza Elderly Housing
HUD will foreclose on Walnut Plaza a 24 unit elderly housing complex in Wellsville at the Franklin County Courthouse on March 31. The building will stay open and residents remain unaffected. HUD cites default on the mortgage and unpaid April 1, 2005 payment.
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Wellsville
Walnut Plaza
Franklin County
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Dale Gray
Veterans of Iwo Jima rally in Ottawa Saturday
Veterans from area Fourth Marine Division gather at Maria's Restaurant in Ottawa for a 12 30 p.m. ceremony recalling the famous 1945 Iwo Jima battle. The program includes WWII talk by retired Sgt Maj J L Pacheco, with coffee at 10 30 a.m. and lunch at 11 30 a.m. A few survivors, led by Jerry Ingram, will recount the Iwo Jima action and its legacy at the Marine memorial near Arlington.
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Iwo Jima
Ottawa
Area Marine Veterans Group
Maria's
Main St
U.s.marine Corps War
Arlington National Cemetery
Fourth Marine Division
Jerry Ingram
Heartland of America Chapter
J.L. Pacheco
Two Jima
Robbery at Phillips 66 in South Ottawa is probed
Ottawa police seek a black male in his 20s about 5 feet 10 inches tall and 190 pounds who robbed the Phillips 66 at 216 E 2nd St around 5 30 am Thursday with a possible young Hispanic woman accomplice. Cash from the register was taken. Call (785) 242-1700 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 311-TIPS for anonymous tips.
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Ottawa
Randy Allan
Franklin County
Downsizing Plan Would Scale Down Kansas School Administration
Rep. Shari Weber proposes a bill limiting Kansas to one county superintendent of schools per county, removing deputy or assistant superintendents. The plan would consolidate central offices into a county office, leaving districts spanning multiple counties to be run from the home county.
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Topeka
Shari Weber
R-Herington
Weber
Kansas
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