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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 2001
Page
6
Central Heights girls secure a berth to the State Tournament alongside Wellsville and Osage City boys who also earn trips to state. The results highlight the district round as basketball teams vie for a spot in the state finals.
Tonight partly cloudy with a low of 20 to 25. Tuesday brings partly cloudy skies and a high in the mid 40s. Northeast winds around 10 mph. For more weather see Page 2. Public notices, classifieds, comics, opinions, obituaries, sports and other sections listed with respective page numbers.
Sophomore Katie Sheffield hugs first-year Ottawa High girls coach Cliff McCullough after a 68-54 win over Burlington in the Class 4-A sub-state championship. Ottawa senior Nathan Steward lifts the Class 4-A sub-state trophy after a 66-51 victory over Louisburg. Both Ottawa teams head to state.
Two US-56 crashes in Douglas County over the weekend killed Debra Jo Plank 42 of Williamsburg and Robert Cronin 58 of Edora. Plank failed to yield at Baldwin Junction crashing with a southbound car driven by 19-year-old Ryan Dickinson. In the other crash Cronin’s SUV hit a DeSoto High School forensics bus. no bus passengers were hurt.
Police and arson investigators responded to a mobile home and camper fire in the 2700 block of Tennessee Terrace. A female body was found inside the engulfed camper and sent to the Shawnee County Coroner for autopsy. The fire was reported at 1:18 p.m. and the victim pronounced dead at 2:30 p.m. The case remains under investigation.
Kansas lawmakers State Sen. Robert Tyson and State Rep. Ralph Tanner told a legislative coffee they oppose raising the state sales tax to fund education. Tyson argued the tax is already high and would hurt economic development, while Tanner said the proposed increase would not fund education adequately and must target classroom needs, not administration.
The Ottawa City Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Friday at City Hall to request placing a 1/10th-cent sales tax on the April ballot to fund part of a 20 year loan for a new sewage treatment plant. The tax would start July 1 if approved and end once the loan is paid.
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