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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 2001
Page
6
Tonight partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. Low in the mid 70s. Wednesday expect considerable cloudiness and a thunderstorm chance. High in the upper 80s. For more weather details see Page.
The Ottawa City Commission refused Noel Douglas' request for more time to sell four dilapidated houses and a North Main property. A condemnation vote is set for Aug. 1 with bids due Aug. 17 and a potential demolition by Sept. 5. Green offered to secure and board properties to deter squatters. city will lien properties if demolished.
At a Monday work session Ottawa Kansas the Board of Education reviewed the 2001-2002 budget proposing the mill levy to rise from 52.791 to 52.806 mills an increase of .015. The plan funds new vocational classes elementary reading programs and a new alternative school while addressing higher utility costs. A budget hearing is set for 6 p.m. August 13 at Ottawa Middle School with a projected community review. The district may face a future levy increase though officials aim for gradual changes. Ezra Sykes reports.
Herald staff writer Ezra Sykes reports in the mid-1990s about Earl Devore's firm reviving elementary school projects in Ottawa. After a failed bond and a shuttered Fifth and Main middle school, ideas included consolidating Eugene Field and Hawthorne into a new building on the old site.
City officials warn they face a KDOT threat to withhold a 380000 grant for a new visitors center at the K-68 and I-35 site unless a corridor management plan is adopted. City Manager Scott Lambers and others call the move coercive and against city interests.
Tony Lynn Cowdin 43 pleaded guilty to three counts of solicitation for first degree murder in district court. A plea agreement prompted dismissal of three additional charges. Cowdin, jailed since March 1997 for domestic battery, offered money to have former Sheriff Lt. Alan Radcliffe, his wife Kris, and his own wife Heidi killed. He received a controlling sentence of 85 months with related federal time, subject to appeal.
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