Glasscock outlines tough教育 plan for Kansas session
Kansas House Speaker Kent Glasscock spoke to Ottawa Kiwanis about a hard legislative year. He urged focus on early childhood and student achievement while balancing a flat revenue outlook and possible new revenue like gaming or tobacco tax. He proposed a new economic strategy, deregulation of telecoms for wider high speed internet, and kept his campaign stance brief.
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Kent
Glasscock
Ottawa
Ottawa Kiwanis Club
Manhattan
Graves
Carla Stovall
Kiwanis
Ezra Sykes
Esykes
Ottawaherald.com
Ron Bishop
Kansas
Kent Glasscock
Ottawa Kiwanis
Country Mart to Change Hands in Kansas City Area Sale
Country Mart, at 2138 S Princeton Circle Drive, is being sold by Guy Steiner and Steve Silverman of Foods Inc to Gary Jones of Associated Wholesale Grocers and Jim Coddington, who runs a Piggly Wiggly and Thriftway in Kansas City. The sale is expected to close Feb 2 or 3 and all current employees, including store manager Dave Smith, will be retained. The store will keep its name and no changes are planned at this time.
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Rous
Princeton Circle Drive
Jones
Associated Wholesale Grocers
Country Mart
Coddington
Piggly Wiggly
Thriftway
Kansas City
Abandoned baby Abby Doe freed for adoption
Abby Dawn Doe, the newborn found abandoned at Ransom Memorial Hospital, was released Thursday and placed under Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services custody until parental rights are terminated. Police and county officials have not filed charges. a 2000 law allows leaving a healthy infant with a hospital or fire station within 45 days of birth without prosecution.
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Herald
Abby Dawn Doe
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Kansas Social and Rehabilitation
SRS
McDermottt
Ottawa
Abby
John Dowell
Franklin County
Abby Doe
Cedar Street overhaul survey begins as engineers study reconstruction
BG Consultants begun measuring Cedar Street as part of an engineering study that could lead to a full reconstruction from First to 15th. Crews work for about eight weeks, with design this year and a federal grant hoped to cover most of the about 5 million project cost. city funding covers engineering.
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BG Consultants
Cedar Street
Andy Haney
City Public Works
Haney
Donation funds service dogs through Kansas City charity
Marguerite Gibson donated a generous gift to the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation to support training and placement of service dogs for the blind and handicapped. The Gibsons founded Bing-Go Dog Food in Ottawa in 1961, closed in 2001 after Raymond’s death, and Marguerite now serves on the Franklin County Community Foundation board.
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Herald Statt
Marguerite Gibson
Ottawa
Raymond
Marguerite
Greater
Gibsons
Post Cereal Company
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Greater Kansas
Ron Bishop
Lisa Shepard
The
Community Foundation of
Johnson County
Overland Park
Raymond Gibson
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