Weather outlook with storms and cooler temperatures
Tonight dull with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy with a low around 60. Thursday turns cooler with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms and a high near 75 to 80. For more weather details see Page 2.
Construction Work Transforms Local Football Field
Daniel White, eight, watches Killough Construction crews move dirt at the old football practice field. He lives nearby and sometimes plays there. Crews expect completion by the first of September, after which the area will include softball diamonds and a football practice field near Iawa University.
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Daniel White
Killough Construction
Daniel
Iawa University
RMH reports over $2 million income gain in 2000
Ransom Memorial Hospital's 2000 audit shows gross income up by about $2 million from 1999 while expenses trended downward. Net income for 2000 was a $367,000 loss, a dramatic turnaround from 1999's over $1.6 million loss, with an unqualified opinion on finances.
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Ransom Memorial Hospital
Hospital Board of Trustees
Roger Johnson
Wendling, Noe, Nelson and Johnson LLC
Topeka
Johnson
AMH
Dean Ohmart
RMH
Ohmart
Slain KU student to be buried in Ottawa
Shannon Martin 23 of Lawrence was slain in Golfito Costa Rica and will be buried in Highland Cemetery Ottawa. She studied biodiversity ecology and evolutionary biology and traveled to Costa Rica to collect a rare fern sample. A gathering will be 6 p.m. Friday at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries on KU campus.
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University of Kansas
Costa Rica
Highland Cemetery
Ottawa
Shannon Martin
Lawrence
Golfito
Martin
Ross Martin
Seattle
Jeanette Stauffer
Topeka
Bill
Lucile Martin
Stauffer
Charlene Lister
George Lister Shannon
William H. “Dad” Martin
Deborah Barker
Franklin County Historical Society
Ecumenical Christian Ministries
Herald
Associated Press
Darrin Peschka
Ottawaherald
State budget woes trickle down in Topeka strained by cuts
Budget decisions in Topeka pressure Kansas cities and counties to choose between higher property taxes and service cuts. Officials warn the Medicaid of local budgets hinges on state funding shifts and legal transfers, with poorer communities risking the greatest harm while social services face possible cutbacks.
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Harris News
Topeka
Randy Allen
The
Kansas Association of Counties
Allen
Kansas
Finney County
Properti
Pete Olson
Garden City
Olson
Paul Klotz
Sas
Klotz
Joner
Laura Howards
Argster
Reading program Fast ForWard heads to Ottawa summer
Future Visions in Ottawa will offer the Fast ForWard reading program this summer on a trial basis. The brain rewiring course, costing 25 dollars per week in Ottawa, aims to raise reading levels by one to three grades in under eight weeks with 100 minute lessons and daily progress reports. slots are first come, first served for students from second grade up, with sessions from 9 to 11 am and 11 am to 1 pm beginning June 11 and running through July, except the week of July 4.
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Future Visions
Ottawa
Sandy Brown Payne
Payne
Kansas Ty
Greenbush
Vision
Fast ForWard
Future Vision
Ezra Sykes
Esykes
Ottawaherald
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