Honor Follows Veterans as Flags Go Up Across County
Memorial Day observances include Wellsville Legion Post 194 placing nearly 300 flags on local veterans graves across five cemeteries. Ottawa VFW Post 5901 will add about 10 000 flags at other cemeteries. The Vietnam Veterans of America Ottawa chapter holds its In Memory ceremony at Evergreen Mound Cemetery with a 21 gun salute and taps.
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Wellsville
Louis Hanson American Legion
Wellsville-area
Ottawa Veterans of Foreign War Memorial
VFW
al Parker
Vietnam Veterans of America
Evergreen Mound Cemetery
Franklin County
Harvey Nicholson
New Ottawa Elementary School Window Installations Highlight Classrooms
Bart Buehler of Vassar installs storefront style windows in a classroom at the new Ottawa Elementary School in the north part of town near Davis Road. Many classrooms will feature large windows.
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Bart Buehler
Vassar
Davis Road
Board to discuss new name for north Ottawa elementary
Ottawa school board members want to consider a new identity for a new elementary school near Davis Road. The school, planned to replace the old Lincoln at 728 N. Cedar St. under a $25.9 million bond, may shed its Lincoln name despite a student vote to keep it. President Marge Stevens reported calls from residents worried about unequal treatment if new enrollment shifts occur.
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Ottawa School Board
Davis Road
Lincoln
N. Cedar St
Marge Stevens
Williamsburg teen given 18 months for stabbing
Williamsburg 17 year old Travis Ray Lewis apologized at a hearing for stabbing James Denny multiple times. Prosecutor asked for an 18 month term plus 24 months of after care and restitution. Lewis was in custody since Jan 22 on aggravated assault and battery charges after a verbal dispute escalated.
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Williamsburg
Travis Ray Lewis
Kevin Kimball
Stephen Hunting
Lewis
James Denny
Franklin County
Craig Davis
Davis
Denny
Joint Conference Bush Blair Acknowledge Iraq Mistakes
In a somber joint news conference Bush and Tony Blair reflected on the Iraq war after more than three years of troop deployment. They acknowledged mistakes and the price paid for overthrowing Saddam Hussein while facing persistent fallout from the Baghdad campaign.
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Bush
Blair
Iraq
Washington
Tony Blair
Baghdad
Saddam Hussein
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Flanders Fields
Vietnam Veterans Group
New Ottawa
Mindy Ricketts
The
Ottawa Herald
Jodie Garcia
Herald Staff
Stevens
Sasha Dydell
Hawthorne
Ray Walken
Ottawa
Lacey Knight
Lincoln Elementary
Hayden Robbins
Trevor Carpenter
Ottawa Middle School
Carpenter
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