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Seward County Republicans To Meet - June 20, 2011
The Seward County Republican Party will meet this Thursday at the Seward County Administration Building in the county commission chambers at 7 p.m. The meeting will be a short one. It will include di...
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Headstone Added To Negro Leaguers Grave In Topeka - June 20, 2011
A former Negro Leagues player has gotten a headstone after being buried in an unmarked grave for more than 30 years. About 40 family friends and baseball fans gathered over the weekend at Topeka'...
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New Flood Insurance Rates Go Into Effect For Texas County - June 19, 2011
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has implemented a nationwide project to modernize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) maps. On July 4, 2011, new flood insurance rate maps wil...
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Gov. Brownback To Host Ogallala Aquifer Summit - June 19, 2011
Gov. Sam Brownback has announced plans to host an economic summit on the future of the Ogallala Aquifer. The summit is scheduled to be held July 21 at Colby Community College in Colby. It's one o...
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Six Must Wait On For Nomination To Move Forward - June 19, 2011
Former Kansas Attorney General Steve Six will have to wait another week to see if his bid for a federal appeals court seat will move ahead. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee stalled until next ...
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Kansas Jobless Rate Dips - June 17, 2011
The unemployment rate dipped in Kansas to 6.6 percent in May, but the state's secretary of labor still describes the economic recovery as tentative. A report Friday from the Kansas Department of L...
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Wheat Harvest Moves North In Kansas - June 17, 2011
The industry trade group Kansas Wheat saysthe state's winter wheat harvest has moved as far north as Ottawa County. The group reported in its latest harvest report Thursday that farmers brought in ...
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Blue-green Algae Back At Meade Lake - June 17, 2011
Toxic blue-green algae has been detected at Meade State Lake. The Kansas Department of Health recommends the following precautions be taken: · Do not drink the lake water. · Avoid swim...
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Liberal Fireworks Up in the Air - June 16, 2011
Depending on fire conditions in Seward County Monday, July 4, there may or may not be fireworks following the Bee Jays baseball game. The SewardCounty and Liberal Fire Departments will make a dec...
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Corn Prices Fall - June 16, 2011
Corn prices are falling after a spell of warm, dry weather left more than two-thirds of the crop in good condition. Corn settled down 3.5 percent Tuesday at $7.555 a bushel. That's still more than dou...