Ottawa school to be repurposed by Topeka developer
The Ottawa Board of Education weighs selling the shuttered Fifth and Main middle school to The Pioneer Group Inc. for a mixed use project including senior housing and offices. State Historical Society urging reuse. financing may involve grants and tax credits with no sales tax. A win win win potential for community, residents, and students.
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Fifth and
Main Streets
Topeka
State Historical Society
Pioneer Group Inc
Ottawa
George Washburnesque
Garden color fills back stair garden in Ottawa
A multi level urban garden behind Courthouse Square Apartments in Ottawa showcases tomatoes, honeysuckle, clematis, ivy, nasturtiums, coleus, marigolds and petunias. Volunteers include Bradford pear trees guarding the stairs and an oak plant housed in a whiskey barrel. Daughters gift tomatoes to a local doctor as tenants praise the green space.
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Bradford
Bill’s Hardware
Hartford
Kan
Chris
Julie
Verda Hunter
Research Medical Center
Courthouse Square
Ottawa
Kansas to vote on state board power over teacher licensure
Kansas politics focus on the State Board of Education with a looming primary as the Kansas Commission on Teaching and America’s Future proposes a constitutional amendment to move credentialing power from the SBE to a industry dominated licensing board. If approved, this shift would affect teacher supply, salaries, district budgets, and hiring, altering statewide education governance.
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SBE
Kansas
Kansas Commission On Teaching and
America’s Future
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Railsters
Kansas National Education Association
Commission On Teaching and America’s Future
Martin Hawver
Hawver
Capitol Report
Hawvernews.com
Healthy diet and pets collide in a suburban chaos
Syndicated columnist David Chartrand recalls CDC warnings about eating squirrel brains while detailing a night in his Omaha area home with cats dogs and visiting sister with two opossums. After a dramatic confrontation the yard quiets and no rabies are found as squirrels disappear and house pets recover.
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Rome
Arizona
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Truman-Arizona
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Opossum
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Paris
David Chartrand
Olathe
Doc
Aol.com
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