School Talks At Impasse In Ottawa District
Ottawa teachers and board negotiators held a Friday session amid rising tensions over salaries as impasse looms June 1. Both sides trimmed offers, with the board proposing 132 338 and teachers 186 037 for next year's pay, leaving a 54 000 gap and a potential mediator unless an accord is reached.
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Jay Bemis
Ottawa
Ottawa Board of Education
Teachers’ Ottawa Education Association
DEA
Bud Gollier
Almeda Edwards
Gollier
Chuck Tilman
OEA
Tilman
Kansas Department of Human Resources
KDHR
Skunk Run Book Sale Returns To City Park For 13th Year
The Friends of the Ottawa Library prepare the 13th Skunk Run Book Sale set for June 7 in City Park. Funds raised will support library needs including a big screen TV, videocassette gear, computer programs, more large print books, and a new library sign. The event features Centennial Cabin activities, the Muzzle Loader display, a harmonica player, antique bikes, book sorting, and book sales from 11 am to 4 pm with profits benefiting the library.
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Melissa Bauman
Friends of the Ottawa Library
City Park
FOL
Rose Stephenson
Friends
Jane
Byrd
Stephenson
Bill Bennett
Rose
Bennett
Centennial Cabin
Marais Des Cygnes Valley
Jim McKenzie
Mitzi Wallace
Wallace
Ottawa Herald
Judy Ransom
Jack Wallace
Community Arts Council
Ransom
Ottawa Community Arts Council
Deb Barker
Revenue near target after May shortfall in Kansas
Kansas May revenue fell 12.5 million short of estimates but remains ahead for the year. Revenue Secretary Harley Duncan said the state is likely to meet the FY 1987 goal of 1.678 billion with one month left. May totals were 117.5 million, with corporate refunds driving the shortfall and auto sales slowing the sales tax, while individual income tax and oil severance tax surpassed projections.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Harley Duncan
Duncan
Department of Revenue
Mike Hayden
Exorcism of Sorts by John Mark Lambertson
Franklin County Historical Society examines legends surrounding the Tany Jones House near Ottawa. The 1860s 14 room structure ties to Rev. John Tecumseh Jones a founder of Ottawa and potentially Ot tawa University. The piece notes a trading post era by the 1840s, a military road, a burned log house linked to abolitionist John Brown, and possible Underground Railroad ties. It mentions a stone hauled from Ft Scott and the house site history.
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John Mark Lambertson
Franklin County Historical Society
Kansas
Franklin County
Tany Jones
Ottawa
John Tecumseh
Tawa
Tany’”) Jones
Joneses
John Brown
Ottawa Creek
Brown
Tony Jones
Ft. Scott
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Steve Zak
Quilters Guild
Eileen Roseberry
Chris Campbell
Franklin
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