Flash Flooding Scourges Franklin County as Rain Persists
Heavy southern Franklin County rainfall left roads up to three feet deep with water in ditches from Princeton to Williamsburg. Emergency crews monitored damage in Rock Creek Road area and across Lane Rantoul and Williamsburg as a flash flood warning extended toward noon.
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Franklin County
Alan Radcliffe
Rock Creek Road
Radcliffe
Princeton
Lane
Rantoul
Williamsburg
National Weather Service
Topeka
Anderson County
Shawn Bryne
The
Weather Service
Kansas
Bryne
West John Brown Road
Night Owl Turns Daylight Donuts Into Night Owls Trade
Tammy Geiss owns Daylight Donuts at 1644 S Main St and works the night shift to bake raised doughnuts, a two hour process. She explains customers see trays at 7 am with no idea the overnight effort behind each batch.
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S. Main
Tammy Geiss
Jan Geiss
Tammy
John Geiss
Geiss
Daylight Donuts
S. Main St
Ottawa Super 8 Motel tax sale refund approved
Franklin County will collect nearly $32,000 from Ottawa Lodging Inc. after the county reduced the Ottawa Super 8 Motel valuation for tax purposes. County commissioners and Appraiser Steve Brown finalized the adjustment, clearing back taxes through 2001 with mid June payments totaling just over $61,000.
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Ottawa
Franklin County
0 Lodging Inc
Steve Brown
Debbie Hougl
Ottawa Seeks Limited Sewer Rate Increase Plan
City commissioners trimmed the proposed five year multi year sewer rate plan to three years limiting annual increases. The plan would allow staff to raise rates by 90 cents monthly over three years without prior approval while aiming to shore up the wastewater fund and avoid sharp customer hikes. Immediate billing would rise 3.24 dollars with a 1.75 dollar rise next year. The average Ottawa family currently pays about 21 dollars monthly. The measure excludes repayment on a 10 million state loan for the new plant.
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Ottawa
Gene Ramsey
Ramsey
Weldon Padgett
Goodwill to Open Ottawa Thrift Store at Sutherland Center
Goodwill Goodwill Inc. will open a thrift store in Ottawa leasing about 8,000 square feet of the Sutherland shopping center at 2200 Princeton Circle Drive. Renovations begin August 1 with a mid September opening. The site includes rehabilitation and training offices and will hire a full time rehabilitation person.
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Helping Hand Goodwill Inc
Ottawa
Social Agency
Thrift
Sutherland
Princeton Circle Drive
Goodwill
Tom Dooley
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Rms
Drench County
Rachel Seymour
Ottawa Herald
John Nowak
Samantha Thompson
Herald
Jan
John
Cleon Rickel
Roperty
Ottawa Lodging
Thrift Store
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