Weekend Forecast Shows Mild Temperatures and Light Winds
Weekend outlook calls for partly cloudy conditions today with highs in the upper 70s and northeast to north winds of 5 to 15 mph. Tonight should be mostly clear with lows 50 to 55. Sunday turns sunny and slightly warmer with highs in the low 80s.
Kansas school year rounds in at New Stanley
Erin Matz and 360 peers at New Stanley Elementary will start an extended year this fall, totaling 205 school days and 226 teaching days in 10 week sessions with a one week break. The program, funded by a 750000 grant from the RJR Nabisco Foundation, aims to boost learning and avoid a lag into the 21st century.
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Peg Coughlin
Associated Press
Kansas City, Kan
Erin Matz
Stanley
Kansas
Bill Beckley
Kansas City
Kan
RJR Nabisco Foundation
New Stanley
Missouri
Roger D. Semerad
Foundation
Beckley
Mississippi River
RJR Reynolds
Martha Hemer
Ottawa retirement village fishing trip yields big bluegill catch
Dorthy Morton caught a whopper bluegill during the Ottawa Retirement Village trip to Gaynor's Lake. The annual outing Friday drew residents like Harvey Staadt Imogene Berger Charlie Cain Hal Trabert and others despite cool 60 degree weather and a campfire gathering.
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Dorthy Morton
Ottawa
Gaynor’s Lake
Harvey Staadt
Imogene Berger
Charlie Cain
Hal Trabert
Helen Swank
Harry McClure
Gladys McIintire
Sam Hume
Louie Ames
Orda Irvin
Gordon Blunt
Lawrence trailer park bans pizza deliveries amid speeding concerns
Brookwood Mobile Home Community manager Wayne Lacy bans pizza deliveries after two years of speeding complaints from tenants. Leases at the park are month to month, allowing termination after a second delivery ban. Consumer Affairs official Mark Pitner notes legality, urging landlord tenant act changes. Residents urged to pick up pizza themselves or go to nearby restaurants.
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Awrence
Kan
Lawrence
A. Pizza
Wayne
Lacy
Brookwood
Brookwood Park
Mark Pitner
Consumer Affairs Association
Piner
Hanford Radiation Risks Shown Since 1948 Panel Reveals
Federal records indicate the government knew as early as 1948 that radiation releases at the Hanford plant risked human health, yet agency officials rejected cancer study urges. Airborne emissions persisted until the mid-1950s, with public acknowledgment only in 1986. A health panel says nearby residents absorbed 1,200 times current safety levels between 1944 and 1947.
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Robert Burns
Associated Press
Federal
Goverment
Hanford
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Energy Department
Washington State