Roundabout removal starts Tuesday at 11th Ash intersection
City crews will remove the 11th and Ash roundabout starting 8 a.m. Tuesday with Ash between 10th and the Ottawa High School driveway and 11th Street between Willow and Cypress closed during work. The intersection should reopen by day’s end, with four way stop signs returned.
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11Th and
Ash
Andy Haney
City Public Works
10Th
Ottawa High School
11Th Street
Willow
Cypress
Haney
Ottawa Hospital Admissions And Jail Bookings Report
Ottawa area hospital admissions list includes Joe Lee Florence Carroll Darlene Seaton Sheila Osborne Sheila Hodges Margaret Sinclair and births of a daughter to Sheila Osborne. Jail bookings feature Curtis Mitchell Sand Jeffrey Allen Needham II Leslie Dwayne Barrett Robert John Pyle III and others with later transfers and a Franklin County arrest summary.
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Joe Lee
Ottawa
Florence Carroll
Darlene Seaton
Sheila Osborne
Sheila Hodges
Margaret Sinclair
Anna
Guyett
Melvern
Qlather Medical Center
Brenda Smith
Viola Virginia Underwood
Robert Poss
Garnett
Kaylin Gragg
James Rice
Franklin County
Curtis Mitchell Sand
Overbrook
Jeffrey Allen Needham II
Osawatomie
Leslie Dwayne Barrett
Rantoul
Robert John Pyle III
Cedar
Robert Lowell Ward
Pomona
Sheriff's Dept
Andrew Charles McNish
Counterfeit $100 Bills Circulating in Ottawa Say Police
Police warn that counterfeit $100 bills are circulating locally in Ottawa as three fakes appeared at Wal Mart and in other transactions. Lt Randy Allan notes color slightly yellow, lighter paper, blurry print and no security features. Retailers are urged to hold customers or seek information and contact police.
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The
Herald Star
Ottawa
Randy Allan
Wal‘Mart
Allan
Abortion foes push clinic safety rules in Kansas
Abortion opponents in Kansas shift focus to a clinic safety and health standards bill, hoping Governor Sebelius signs it. They frame it as public health but face skepticism from abortion rights groups led by lawmakers like Rep. Paul Davis. Sebelius’s stance remains pivotal as debates hinge on lines between safety and harassment.
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Topeka
Kathleen Sebelius
Sebelius
Paul Davis
D-Lawrence
Kansas
Gov
Bill
Graves
Kansans For Life
Kathy Ostrowski
Etheridge gifts Leavenworth band organ $15000
Leavenworth Kansas singer Melissa Etheridge, a hometown native, donated the full 15000 to buy an ARTIZAN band organ for the town. Carousel restorers, led by Jerry Reinhardt, celebrated the gift as work on a 1913 carousel proceeds. A brass plaque honoring Etheridge will be unveiled at a February 28 event.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Melissa Etheridge
Etheridge
Jerry Reinhardt
Kansas City
Reinhardt
State's drug take up this year
Kansas budget strains persist while drug tax receipts rise. Marijuana tax take grew 3.6 percent in the first half of the year, cocaine and other drugs up 20.6 percent, with stamps issued in denominations from 10 to 1000 dollars. Civil penalties can follow, stamps mostly bought by collectors, and purchases kept anonymous.
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Wichita
Kansas
State Department of Revenue
Bob Longino
Division of Alcohol Beverage Control
Revenue Department
State General Fund
Longino
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Bulletin Board
Greene
Graham Greene
Marie Brinkman
Saint Mary College
Brinkman
Mary Janet McGilley
St. Mary
Woodrow Wilson
National Endowment of the Humanities
John Henry Newman
Birmingham
England
Lifers Club
Kansas State Penitentiary
London
Sarah
Maurice
Henry
Kansas Humanity Council and Friends of the Ottawa Library
Falk
James Baldwin
Owen Meany
John Irving
Brinkmon
the Daily Report
Nevada Terrace
Thomas Gearhard Lanwehr
Williamsburg
Matthew Alan Jones
Lori A. Hamilton
Dustin T. Markus
Sharon Ann Allread
Osage
John Hanna
Associated Press
Laurie Silk Bryan Phares
Grimmet Masonry
Stan Clark
R Oakiey
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