Ottawa kindergarten round-up set for next school year
April round-ups list five Ottawa elementary sites with dates from April 12 to 16. Children must be five by August 31, bring birth and immunization documents, and contact each school for details.
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Ottawa
Garfield
Eisenhower
Hawthorne
Eugene Field
Lincoln
Pomona
E. 4Th St
U.S.D
Three Lakes Educational Cooperative
Franklin County Health Department
Head Start
Pomona Elementary School
Williamsburg grad wins Oregon Innovators in Education Award
Kenneth Brock Jr., a 1986 Williamsburg High School graduate and Creswell Middle School teacher, received the Oregon Innovators in Education Award for a field based environmental curriculum integrating language arts science and social studies. He is the son of Sharon Smock Williamsburg and Ken Brock Dallas Texas.
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Williamsburg Grad
Creswell, Obe
Kenneth Brock, Jr
Williamsburg High School
Oregon Innovators
Creswell Middle School
Sharon Smock
Williamsburg
Ken Brock
Dallas
Texas
Franklin County Commission advances traffic and space plans
The Franklin County Commission approved a southbound stop sign at Nebraska Road and Allen Road and heard of a planned 32 mile chip and seal program with bids to follow. They discussed removing 17 trees around the courthouse, a Willis Garden Center proposal of 1000 to buy up to 15 trees, and evaluating space needs including moving offices to the annex while Clerk Shari Perry opposes moving her office. The Anderson County Commission meanwhile approved a northbound stop sign on Nebraska Road due to a ballpark project by Richmond.
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Franklin County Commission
Nebraska Road
Allen Road
Anderson County Commission
Richmond
Ray DeJulio
Franklin County Public Works
Franklin County
Roger Bell
Willis Garden Center
Bell
Earl Devore
Devore & Associates Architects
Don Waymire
Harold Fuller
Shari Perry
Fire destroys Baldwin restaurant in Sunday blaze
Investigators probe cause as Baldwin firefighters joined teams from Baldwin Palmyra Livonia and Lawrence to battle a two hour blaze at Popp's Restaurant 131 Baker that ended about 8 45 p m Darren Maples who just opened Popp's in July is not ready to comment Larry Trowbridge owns the property An investigator from the state fire marshal's office surveyed the damage today
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Baldwin
Palmyra Livvabuls
Lawrence
Popp's
Baker
Darren Maples
Larry Trowbridge
Damon A. Wallis
S. Poplar
Eighth and
Poplar
Douglas A. Welsh Jr
S. Oak
Dundee
Main
Larry J. Callahan
S. Lincoln Lot 4
Jessica A. Foulk
Walton
East 15Th
Miami County
N. Cedar
East Ninth Mobile Home Community
Lincoln
Panel Approves Education Budget In Topeka
A House committee approved funding for public schools and the Department of Education but postponed hard choices awaiting further funds. The panel backed Gov Graves' education budget with no state aid increases and kept special education funding near 80 percent amid objections.
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Topeka
House
Appropriations
Department of Education
Bill Graves
Pania
Kansas suspends over 1300 underage licenses under zero tolerance law
AP reports Kansas has suspended more than 1,300 driver's licenses of drivers under 21 since a January 1997 zero tolerance rule. The measure requires 30 day suspensions for BAC of 0.02 percent or higher, with 0.08 percent triggering suspensions for older drivers. 1997 1998 1999 suspensions cited, Senate-passed bill to fix the law.
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Topeka
Kansas
Senate
Kansas Department of Revenue
Scott Holeman
Roger H. Carlson
Division of Health and Environmental Laboratories
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Kansas Law Enforcement
Carlson
Lawmakers mull landowner payment for trail rights in Missouri
The article reports on proposed legislation by Rep. Ryan to require upfront compensation to landowners when converting railroad rights of way to trails such as the Katy and Grant’s Trails. It notes court rulings upholding railbanking, opposition from Rails to Trails Conservancy and Road Runners Club of America, and quotes landowners like Jayne Glosemeyer about costs and moved hog operations. The piece mentions figures, groups, and online resources.
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Ryan
U.S. Court of Claims
Missouri
Capitol Crescent Trail
Washington
Maryland
Conservancy
Burwell
Road Runners Club
America
Henley Gabeau
Jayne Glosemeyer
Marthasville
Glosemeyer
Glosemeyers
Trail
Dan Schneider
Nels Ackerson
Ackerson
Rails To Trails Conservancy
Railtrails.org
U.S. Surface Transportation Board
Ottawa area hospital notes and sheriff reports brief
The report covers hospital admissions and discharges in Welda Ottawa and Richmond, a birth at Overland Park Regional Medical Center, and sheriff news including arrests for warrants domestic battery theft and drunken driving. It lists incidents accidents fires and medical calls with times and locations across Ottawa Wellsville and surrounding counties.
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Bobbi Hutchison
Welda
Betty Kaub
Gertrude Senter
Ottawa
Margie Stanford
Richmond
Gladys Ledom
Dale Brooks
Kaitlyn Michelle
Chrissy
Joshua M. Butler
Overland Park Regional Medical Center
Sheriff's News
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Bulletin Board
Wellsville Boe
Wellsville
Wellsville Board of Education
Manning-Prosser Construction Co
Lenexa
Denise O'Dea
Rantoul Church
Rantoul Presbyterian Church
Michigan Valley Community Church
Deloris Schoepflin
Michigan Valley 4-H Club
Church
Commission
Atate Fire-Marshal's
Daily Report
Roy Gene Hill
Iola
Coffey County
Allen County
John Charles Boase Jr
Boase
Anderson County
W. Central Ave
Ohio Road
Franknn County
Shawnee Road
Wellaville
Police News
Kerry Jo Eads
Riverside
West First
Ramiro Ortiz Cantu Jr
E. Wilson
Eighth
Christopher James White
U.S
White
Michael A. Powell
West 15Th
Peggy L. Cramer
N. Sycamore
Mulberry
Randy Gene Johnson HS
Princeton
William Tyson Walkenshaw
Carl Junction
Walkenshaw
Old
U.S.50
David Doty
Doty
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Nevada
Darrell L. Willcut
Rantoul
Rock Creek Road
Texas Road
Brent Neis
Ottawa High School
Virgil Allen
S. Maple
Roy Hurley
South Elm
Lane
Ween Senior Housing
Walnut
South Olive Medical Emergency
Ottawa Retirement Village
15Th
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