Kansas Day activities at Hawthorne Elementary School
Third grader Brittney Dickey and Kelsie Freeman join 25 minute sessions featuring quilting American Indian artifacts a one room schoolhouse square dancing trail mix and lunch on pie tins to mark Kansas Day. Counselor Becky Blane helps Judge Curran and Tristan Marmon assemble paper parfloches a rawhide container used by Indians to store food.
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Brittney Dickey
Kelsie Freeman
Hawthorne
Hawthorne Elementary
Counslor
Becky Blane
Judge Curran
Tristan Marmon
Hawthorne Elementary School
Business leaders split over wage bill tax breaks
A Senate minimum wage package to raise the federal rate from 5.15 to 7.25 an hour faces business opposition split by size. Small firms and retailers favor tax credits and deductions aimed at offsetting higher labor costs, while large corporations oppose losing deductions for jury verdicts and settlements and would bear higher costs.
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Washington
America
Senate
Ottawa to rename Princeton streets to Main Street links
The city proposes renaming north bound Princeton Street to Main Street and Princeton Circle Drive southbound to Main Street Terrace, affecting properties south of 19th Street. Wynndee Lee outlined the plan at a city commission meeting with 90 property owners invited to discuss the change and signage confusion near Elm Street.
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Princeton Street
Princeton Circle
Ottawa
Wynndee Lee
City Commission
19Th Street
Lee
Main Street
Princeton Circle Drive
Elm Streets
Elm Street
Princeton
U.S. 59
Franklin County names Robbins ambulance director
Nick Robbins is the new Franklin County Ambulance director after serving as interim head for about two months. A Harper County native, he has five years with Franklin County EMS and five with AMR in Topeka and Johnson County, plus experience as a paramedic for air ambulance services. He emphasizes closer ties between crews and volunteers and has taught advanced paramedic training.
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Cleon Rickel
Lance Services
Robbins
Franklin County
Allen County Community College
Senate challenge to Bush on war powers in Iraq debate
Senate Republicans challenge President Bush about sole decision making on Iraq policy during a war powers hearing. They argue Congress is a coequal branch and inch toward options to end the war, including funding limits and end dates, amid Democratic push and political risk.
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Senate
Republican
Congress
Bush
Washington
Arlen Specter
Specter
Iraq
Cheney
Sen
Russell Feingold
D-Wis
U.S
Dick Cheney
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