Business Beat: Northeast Kansas honors Ottawa firms
Ottawa area firms won 1999 Northeast Kansas Business Appreciation Awards. Kansas State Bank and S&S Grocers own Country Mart and three other stores, employing about 200 across the region with multimillion-dollar expansions. Other winners include Filter Service Lyndon Holthaus Motors Osage City and Osage County Chronicle Burlingame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Kansas State Bank
S&s Grocers
Country Mart
Kansas
Baldwin
S&s
Filter Service of
Lyndon
Holthaus Motors
Osage City
Osage County
Burlingame
Wellsville suffers 911 outage after severed line
A severed line cut long distance and emergency 911 service for about 14 hours in the 883 area of Wellsville. Cellular, radio, and some digital phones could still reach help, but landlines failed. Police say no medical calls were logged and advise residents to use the local emergency number.
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Wellsville
Mike Reed
KOFO
Franklin County
State moves to set river basin pollution standards
A Kansas state initiative aims to establish river basin pollution standards using science and research. EPA approval by June 30 will trigger education efforts with KSU Extension to help landowners remedy waterway pollution as authorities prepare a gradual, 10 year plan.
Quenemo man Powell guilty of aggravated escape
Franklin County jurors found Michael Lynn Powell 40 guilty of aggravated escape from custody after a one day trial. Powell fled a sheriff deputy while in handcuffs near his Quenemo home while deputies questioned him about a hit and run. Sentencing set for July 20. Powell had spent nine weeks in jail on a $50,000 bond.
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Franklin County
Michael Lynn Powell
Powell
Sept. S
Quenemo
Arkansas Terrace
Robert Kuchar
Tim Woods
Franklin County Sheriff's Department
Pomona
Woods
Osage County
Brett Carey
William Edwards
Edwards
James J. Smith
Kuchar
Smith
Ranger
Philip E. Rice
Ohio Road
Princeton
Highway 59
Sheriff's Department
Jeremy J. Huffman
S. Poplar
Main
Ninth
Gregory P. Nilges
Overbrook
Patricia Cox
Indiana Road
Stephanie L. Brown
Williamsburg
Conoco
S. Princeton
Brown
Trenton
Ransom Memorial Hospital
S. Main
Old Usso
South Cypress
Wal-Mart
Highway 68
North Robey
Village West
Twyman
New Regents seek Senate approval for Kansas Board of Regents
Seven of Gov. Bill Graves appointees appeared before the Senate confirmations committee seeking endorsement to start serving July 1 as the reconstituted Kansas Board of Regents. One holdover Sylvia Robinson did not attend. Stephen Clark was away. Bill Docking, named to chair the new board, anticipated Clark's return Thursday.
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Topeka
Bill Graves
Kansas Board of Regents
Senate
Sylvia Robinson
Kansas City
Kan
Chaistian
Tim’ Emert
A-Independencé
Sué
Regents
Graves
Stephen Clark
Wichita
Bill Docking
Arkansas City
Clark
Regents Board
Pomona and Franklin County police blotter arrests Tuesday
Police report multiple arrests in Pomona Franklin County and Wellsville for warrants DUI battery and drug offenses. Notable cases include Jason Lee Potter 21 Pomona held on a city warrant at Franklin Main and several juveniles detained for delinquency and drug possession. A runaway case near I-35 and K-68 is noted with limited details.
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Jason Lee Potter
Pomona
Franklin and Main
Ottawa
Franklin County
Michael Edward Ray
North Main
Kansas Highway Patrol
Parsons
I-35
Police
Janet L. Roush
Nina L. Sitlington
Liberty
Sheriff's Department
Eric Jacob Finch
N. Sycamore
Joshua §. Buhs
Devin C. Jones
South Main
Suspi
Cion
Buhs
Darin W. Reed
N. Poplar
Oak and
Blackhawk
Ricky William Channel
Garnett
S. Willow
Wellsville
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