Basketball coaches lead post-season drama in NC and Bradley
North Carolina coach Dean Smith and Bradley coach Dick Versace provide the focal point of a postseason basketball drama. The write up emphasizes coaching choices, strategic moves, and the tension surrounding tournament play. Milk Federation presents a proposed fix for a massive dairy surplus, outlining proposed solutions and supporting data.
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North Carolina
Dean Smith
Bradley
Dick Versace
Kansas House sends school finance bill to conference committee
After brief debate the Kansas House votes to send the school finance bill to a conference committee to resolve a deep split with the Senate over state versus local control of school funding. The Senate amended to remove budget caps, letting districts raise budgets with local property tax funding, while keeping state appropriations controlled by the Legislature. Rep. Keith Farrar argues it is not a blank check and that supplemental appropriations can be set later.
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas House Today
House
Senate
John Carlin
Keith Farrar
Hugoton
Farrar
Library Dilemma Won't Go Away
Ottawa officials debated funding options to preserve the Carnegie building while enabling a new or expanded library. Improvements total 134000 including 89000 for fire safety and 45000 for structural fixes, with soil settlement and overburdened timbers noted. Four funding paths were discussed: piecemeal budgeting, a building fund, federal revenue sharing, and a special two mill bond.
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Bog
Ottawa City Commission
Public Library Board of Trustees
Carnegie
Kansas Fire Marshal
City Park
George Marshall
County Watchs Levy Impact On Building Fund
The National Weather Service at Ottawa Water Plant logged a low of 25 and a high of 55 with no rain. County forecasts call for scattered showers tonight, then clear to partly cloudy by Wednesday with lows in the 30s and highs in the 50s. The county board weighs total mill levy effects on government and school districts. Building plans face Fire Marshal requirements as Jerry Thompson signals caution about taxpayer costs if the building’s future is uncertain.
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National Weather Service
Ottawa
Jerry Thompson
Ottawa oks Bucher Willis study for downtown revival
Ottawa City Commission approved contracts with Bucher & Willis to draft preliminary plans for a downtown revitalization project estimated under 450000. The panel also voted to terminate a 32 year Kiwanis lease of Mears Park, while Scouts urged keeping the park for primitive camping and nature study amid park maintenance and legal questions.
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Bob Burtch
Ottawa City Commission
Bucher & Willis
Ottawa Kiwanis Club
Mears Park
Boy Scout Troop 127
National Guard
Main Street
Fifth Street
B&w
Myles Schachter
Elliott Hall
George Marshall
Samuel Mears
Kanza Park
Lake Pomona
Kanza
Kiwanis
Leonard Larson
Dave Watkins
Tony Miller
Locust
James Raby
S. Locust
Ex-Ottawa educator to enter Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame
Marvin P. Forker former Ottawa superintendent will be among 12 inducted into the Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame in Dodge City on June 12. Forker 73 of 1445 S Elm retired in 1973 after 46 years in Kansas schools. he began as an elementary teacher in Geneseo and held multiple administrator roles including Ottawa superintendent from 1965. He remains active with the Retired Teachers Association.
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Marvin P
Barney” Forker
Ottawa
U.S.C
Kansas Teachers’ Hall of Fame
Dodge City
Forker
S. Elm
Kansas
Burrton
Pretty Prairie
Liberal
Medicine Lodge
Cherryvale
Retired Teachers’ Association
Area VI
Harold R. Hosey
Emporia
Kansas Hall
Mary Louise Risdon
S. Main
Tanks Surround Guatemala Presidential Palace in Coup Attempt
Guatemalan capital sees tanks, air force overflights and closed La Aurora airport as troops guard the presidential palace in a suspected coup. Officials deny confirmation while elections earlier this month named Gen Angel Anibal Guevara president amid ongoing military influence and deadly political violence.
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Guatemala City
la Aurora
Army Chief of Staff
Angel Anibal Guevara
Guatemala
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Milk Federation
Miles Wingert
E. Wilson
East 15Th Street
Dave Kaup
Wingert
Commission
Marshall
Haven High School
Fort Hays State University
University of Kansas
Geneseo
Hosey
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