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March 17 Chanute activities celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
Joshua Vail Tribune Reporter Chanute’s downtown will be wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day. The 6th annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration will start next Saturday at 8 a.m. There will be a Blarney Breakfast at the Masonic Temple sponsored by Cedar Lodge #103 and Main Street Chanute, Inc. Breakfast will be served from 8 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. The cost will be $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and younger. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Neosho ...
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Officials meet in Erie for discussion on tax bills, Ash Grove tax assessment
This is the first of a two-story series on the impact of these bills on Neosho County Travis Hendryx Shanna Guiot Two bills that aim to change the way in which business equipment is taxed are seemingly at a stand-still in Topeka. Meanwhile, Chanute’s Ash Grove Cement and Neosho County are awaiting the completion of the manufacturer’s recent tax appraisal by an out-of-state firm. County and Chanute commissioners, county and city of Chanute of...
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Blood drive honoring Diskin huge success
ST. PAUL — The blood drive honoring Verl Diskin, former blood drive coordinator for the St. Paul / Erie blood drive was held Tuesday, Feb. 28 in St. Paul. Diskin had received his 13-gallon pin and had donated his 106th pint of blood in December 2011. There were 93 people who came to donate blood in memory of Verl. Of those 93 donors, 86 productive pints of blood were collected making this the second most productive drive in the history of St...
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Local band releases single
Joshua Vail Tribune Reporter Local band A Cold Trip Nowhere has released a single on online music stores and plans to release its first EP by mid-to-late April.¬† Christian Nichols, the main songwriter for A Cold Trip Nowhere, said the band started after the breakup of a previous band he was involved with in 2009.¬† But the music came long before that. “I was raised in the studio,” he said. “My dad’s a producer.”¬† Nichols didn’t start playing...
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Sen. Umbarger again faces ethics complaint
State Sen. Dwayne Umbarger, a Thayer Republican, may face an ethics investigation again involving unproven 2008 allegations. The state ethics commission investigated the allegations in 2008 and dismissed the complaint that alleged Umbarger used campaign money to make numerous personal purchases. Umbarger said there was nothing to the complaint then and nothing is new now. Umbarger had reimbursed his campaign fund $4,702 in 2008 in more than a...
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Severe Weather Awareness Week begins Monday
Kansas will bring attention to the importance of being ready for weather-related damage and disasters with Severe Weather Awareness Week March 12-16. Weather disasters are caused by many types of severe weather and affect a surprisingly large number of people. Each year, Americans cope with an average of 10,000 severe thunderstorms, 5,000 floods and 1,000 tornadoes. In Kansas, 2011 produced 68 tornadoes, plus a range of other extreme weather ...
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SEK Republicans to vote in caucus at Parsons Saturday
Parsons Sun PARSONS — Plans are being finalized for Saturday’s Republican Caucus at the Parsons Municipal Auditorium, 112 S. 17th. The caucus will include Republicans from five counties: Labette, Cherokee, Neosho, Wilson and Allen. Registered Republicans will be able to cast a ballot for their favorite GOP candidate for president: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul. The doors open at 8:30 a.m. and the caucus begins at 10 a....
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Johnsons’ photographic exhibition to premiere in Czech Republic
A photographic exhibition of the pioneering documentary films made by Chanute’s own Martin and Osa Johnson will premiere March 15 in the Czech Republic. The exhibition, Martin and Osa Johnson: the Origin of Cinematic Africa, will open at the American Center of the U.S. Embassy in Prague and is designed to travel around Czech centers at foreign embassies, including those in New York and Los Angeles.¬† The exhibition, which features 26 photos f...
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Contract approved for Royster HVAC system
Joshua Vail Tribune Reporter The USD 413 School Board finalized the deal for the HVAC system at Royster Middle School at Monday’s meeting. The school board voted to approve a contract with Kansas Trane with the budgeted cost of $1,286,672. Brett Miller, business development with Kansas Trane, said he expects the final cost to be somewhat lower. School board member Ross Henrickson asked about how much local subcontractors will be used. Mill...
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NWS to conduct spotter class in Thayer
Travis Hendryx Tribune Reporter With the official start of tornado season less than a month away, National Weather Service personnel are traveling across the state to conduct spotter training seminars. An NWS spotter training class will be held on Tuesday, April 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Thayer Public School, 300 W. Wilson. The class is part of an effort by the Weather Service to educate law enforcement, emergency responders and citizens on sev...
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Country crooners to perform CES concert
The music of such legendary cowboy singers as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers will be coming to Chanute on Sunday, March 11 at the Chanute Memorial Auditorium at 2:30 p.m. in the form of the number one cowboy group in the country Riders in the Sky. Their award winning performance here is sponsored by the Chanute Entertainment Series as part of the 2011-2012 concert season. With 28-plus years and more than 5,000 performance...
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Injuries in three separate deer accidents
An injury accident involving a deer occurred around 7:25 p.m. Friday, 3 miles west of Chanute on K-39. The Kansas Highway patrol reports that Brian C. Dillow, 36, police chief of Humboldt, was westbound on K-39, driving a 2008 Ford Crown Victoria, when three deer entered the road. Dillow was unable to avoid and struck one of the deer. Dillow and his passenger, Jeffery Lynn Collins, 36, Chanute, were injured and taken to Neosho Memorial Regi...
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Umbarger among senators rejecting health care amendment
Staff and wire reports TOPEKA — Most members of the Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature would like to thwart a key mandate in the President Barack Obama’s federal health care overhaul, but the state’s voters aren’t likely to get a chance to weigh in this year. Senators including Dwayne Umbarger, R-Thayer, on Thursday narrowly rejected a proposed health care “freedom” amendment to the state constitution, containing language that mirrors a ...
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Health department committed to get teen pregnancy numbers down
Staff and wire reports Teenage pregnancy rates in Neosho County have increased and are nearly eight points above the state average. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has published the summaries: Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization Index and Adolescent and 2010 Teenage Pregnancy Report. The teen pregnancy report provides data to support assessment and evaluation of teen pregnancies in Kansas. The Prenatal Care report ena...
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St. Patrick students present check to Drexel Fund
On behalf of the 10,671 children of the Diocese of Wichita Catholic Schools, St. Patrick Chanute students on Thursday presented to Superintendent Bob Voboril a check for $69,891 as contribution to the St. Katharine Drexel Catholic School Fund. The St. Katharine Drexel Catholic School fund was established in the Catholic Diocese of Wichita to help equalize parish resources to support our Catholic Schools. St. Patrick Catholic School is a recip...
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County to install stop sign on West Main
At Friday’s meeting of the Neosho County Board of Commissioners Resolution No. R-12-D was adopted authorizing the removal of yield signs located on Country Club Road and West Main Street (Chanute) and the installation of a stop sign at said intersection, such that westbound traffic on West Main Street must stop prior to entering Country Club Road. In other business, the commissioners: — Were updated by George Finical, inspection personnel wit...
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Greyhound racer retires, has eight pups
Travis Hendryx Tribune Reporter A local greyhound that retired from a Florida racing program is now the proud mother of eight pups. Owner LeAnn Welch said the five year-old, 64-pound greyhound, named Osa Martin after explorers Martin and Osa Johnson, retired with a 14-win record before returning to Chanute. She participated in 47 races. Her final race was a third-place finish on Nov. 10, 2010 in Ft. Myers, Fla. Less than a month earlier, she ...
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CES students have pen pals from Japan
Joshua Vail Tribune Reporter Lindsay Winder was always fascinated with Japan and is currently learning first-hand about the country. Winder, born and raised in Chanute, began taking private lessons in Japanese in middle school. Her aunt, Chanute Elementary 4th grade teacher Linda Ashley, said no one was surprised when she went to Japan after graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in International Studies. Winder is currently ...
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Concert series drive brings four acts
The spotlight for the coming month will be on the Chanute Concert Series as 25 membership drive workers conduct their intensive campaign in March for Membership for the 2012-2013 concert season. The association is offering four professional performances for one low season ticket price. Membership Chair Mary Jo Geiger, who is coordinating this large-scale effort stated, “We are optimistic that we can surpass the 450 members who enjoyed the las...
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CHS students digging in to new salad bar
Connie Woodard USD 413 public relations With a nationwide push to add more fruits and vegetables to children’s diets, USD 413 Food Service Director Terri Markham began working with her kitchen managers last year to revamp the menus for Chanute Public Schools. In the midst of that, Chanute High School students requested a salad bar in their cafeteria. “We were already working on our menus,” Markham said, “so it was good timing.” In fact, she s...
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