Mixed board reaction to $1 middle school redevelopment plan
Kansas City developer Steve Foutch proposed buying the old Ottawa middle school for $1 and converting it into 21 senior apartments and 26 lofts with a private recreation center and an indoor pool. Renovation could cost $7 to $8 million, with guaranteed public use of facilities and space for the Ottawa Senior Center. Some directors favored the plan while others pressed for higher offers or different terms.
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Ottawa School Board
Steve Foutch
Foutch
Ottawa
Friends of Historic Buildings
Hawthorne School
Leavenworth
Ottawa's Future: Comprehensive Plan Preview Edition
In-depth look at Ottawa's future through the comprehensive plan, ending with Ottawa's worldwide impact. Topics cover demographics geographic trends land use economic development infrastructure art and aesthetics parks and recreation marketing and promotion town-gown ties and annual progress on February 26.
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Ottawa
Ottawa eyes positive image to attract residents and visitors
City officials seek a strong first impression as part of Ottawa's comprehensive plan. They aim to promote a vibrant identity, improve relations with educational entities, housing, business recruitment, and gateways to draw people to the full-service community. Marketing may blend old and new themes, including the Internet.
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Vickie Moss Herald
Start
Ottawa
Weldon Padgett
Padgett
Ottawa gateway plan invites public input on city identity
Ottawa Herald staff writer reports that eight gateways into Ottawa could be redesigned as prominent entry points. City manager Weldon Padgett says the gateways should convey the community's character with art, statues, fountains, gardens, or park-like settings and involve multiple groups in planning.
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Vickie Moss
Herald
Ottawa
Weldon Padgett
Fea
KSU faculty and students ship books to Iraqi peers
Kansas State University professor Ahlam Al-Rawi gathered about 600 textbooks from 200 faculty and students to aid Iraqi higher education. The donations support the University of Technology in Baghdad and Baghdad University College of Science for Women, with shipping costs assisted by Life for Relief and Development.
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Manhattan
Kansas State University
Iraq
Ahlam Al-Rawi
Baghdad
Anis Al-Rawi
Baghdad University
Women In Engineering and Science
Kansas State
University of Technology
College of Science For Women
Al-Rawiaid
Al-Rawi
Life For Relief and Development
LRD
Michigan
University of Al-Mustansiriya
Education secretary backs off terrorist union remark
Education Secretary Rod Paige says he chose poor words when calling the National Education Association a terrorist organization but he stands by saying the union uses obstructionist scare tactics in opposing the education law. He told the AP the comment was a bad joke made in jest during a White House meeting with governors.
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Washington
Rod Paige
Paige
White House
National Education Association
Associated Press
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