No sale on old Ottawa middle school stalls at meeting
Ottawa Board of Education adjourns special meeting with little support for Star Development Corporation’s $50,000 bid for the Carnegie Cultural Center site. Voices split between saving the building for public use and pursuing a private developer with demolition duties. several members urge further talks and possible counter offers as others oppose any sale.
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Ron Bishop
Ottawa Middle School
Ottawa School Board
Kansas City
Ottawa Board of Education
Star Development Corporation
Bob Bezek
Bezek
Bill Allegre
Allegre
Star Development
Tony Keim
Louis Reed
Carnegie Cultural Center
City Park
Jeanette Lowry
Marge Stevens
Stevens
John Coen
Coen
Lowry
Rity
Devore
Public Works
Jeff Herrman
Thompson
Ottawa power outages prompt business meeting outcry
Ottawa City Commission held a work session after two outages last week. Business leaders described heavy losses with industrial parks and workers affected. Officials blamed a rare sequence of events at the Eisenhower Road substation and pledged steps to prevent repeats.
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Ottawa City Commission
Ottawa
David Harris
Havens Steel
Harris
Joe Hastert
Rocky Fleer- Haster
Fleet-Husted
Tony Keim
Kansas City Power & Light
Jim Bradley
Ottawa Utilities
Kcp&l
Eisenhower Road
Kansas Senate panel backs bill turning food attacks into felonies
A six member Senate Agriculture Committee endorsed a bill making it a felony to attack crops, animal feed, or processed food in Kansas. Expanding a prior livestock disease law the measure aims to deter bioterror threats following security reviews after September attacks. The bill heads to the Senate for debate next week amid broad support and concerns about economic disruption.
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Topeka
Senate Agriculture Committee
Kansas
Washington
New York City
Agriculture Committee
Senate
Tim Huelskamp
R-Fowler
Europe
Christine Downey
D-Newton
Ottawa Commission schedules final vote on new police station
On a 3-2 vote the Ottawa City Commission set a Feb 6 final hearing for a proposed $3 million police facility near the current site. Deb Henningsen Richard Jackson and Charles Gillette supported the move while Mayor Gene Ramsey and Rocky Fleer-Husted opposed.
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Ottawa City Commission
Deb Henningsen
Richard Jackson
Charles Gillette
Gene Ramsey
Rocky Fleer-Husted
Jackson
Fleer-Husted
Archi
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Nev
Split City Commission
Earl Devore
Jerry Thompson
Loyd Builders
Second Street
Public Safety Building
Ottawa Police Department
Public Safety
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