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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1997
Page
6
Royals rebound after a rough stretch under general manager Herb Robinson, winning seven straight spring games. Friday turns windy and partly sunny with a high near 75, winds NW 20 to 30 mph in the afternoon.
During a joint city county school meeting Ottawa Superintendent Harvey Ludwick and board members pressed for details and costs of a city traffic study tied to the 13th and Ash middle school project. They questioned why the district must study traffic when Arrowhead duplex and single-family projects were not.
Franklin County commission handles two zoning issues on Wednesday. Greenwood Township votes 123 in favor and 108 against zoning with a planning hearing likely in May after Ohio Township hearing in April. Wellsville seeks to extend zoning three miles around the city into the county, with about half in favor, next step a planning commission public hearing.
A six member bipartisan panel in Topeka agreed on a plan to resolve a budget dilemma for Kansas school districts by extending local option budgets at reduced rates unless voters approve. Existing LOB districts would get 1997 98 year extension then phased reductions with protest petitions. districts without LOBs could adopt up to the state per pupil budget authority, phased in over five years.
In Helsinki Clinton and Yeltsin, one in a wheelchair, the other walking stiffly, press for European peace while clashing over NATO expansion. Clinton offers arms control concessions to win START II ratification as Yeltsin warns expansion could isolate Russia.
A winter busload of Ottawa students faced a near collision with a freight train at an unmarked crossing west of town on Louisiana Terrace. Driver Vera Gilbert backed the bus off the tracks just as the train, whistle blaring, approached from about 150 yards away. Lincoln counselor Susan Simon and parents were notified. some students were visibly shaken, and the district planned debriefings and safety reviews with BNSF reportedly adjusting boxcar placements.
Ottawa City Commission Franklin County Commission and Ottawa School Board met to discuss joining in a Neighborhood Revitalization Act program. Rebates would apply to property improvements raising residential value 25 percent and commercial value 50 percent, with sliding-scale durations up to five years for homes and ten years for commercial properties.
Sam Sheldon and Marlin Kimball presented four of sixteen proposed academic programs for Ottawa schools aiming to set priorities, with a total cap of 14,400 for all programs. The proposals follow a 4-3 vote approving a costly soccer program and spark debate over funding, sincerity, and timing as election pressure grows.
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