Archive for Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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City council OKs Santa Fe Market plans
By Jimmy Gillispie
November 10, 2011
Baldwin City Council members have given the go-ahead for improvements at the Santa Fe Market, after the store’s owner agreed to abandon plans for a gravel area at the site and instead landscape it.

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Authorities on lookout for two Lansing prison escapees
By Staff Report
November 15, 2011
Prison officials said the two prisoners were confirmed missing at 6 p.m. Tuesday from the prison’s East Unit, where minimum custody inmates are housed.
Holiday Travel: Airlines, airports brace for annual onslaught
By Staff Report
02:44 p.m., November 15, 2011 Updated 12:00 a.m.
Dean Headley, Airline Quality Rating co-author and marketing professor at Wichita State University, talks about air travel during the upcoming holidays.
Eudora resident pleads no contest to animal cruelty charge, must pay state for care of Shetland pony
By George Diepenbrock
November 15, 2011
A Douglas County judge Monday ordered a 44-year-old Eudora man to pay more than $4,400 to the state for care of a Shetland pony he neglected to provide proper care for over a four-year period.
Smaller communities in Douglas County selected to receive business expansion funds
By Chad Lawhorn
November 15, 2011
Baldwin City, Eudora and Lecompton were selected Monday as 2011 Entrepreneurship Communities through NetWork Kansas.
Heritage Council backs allotting $163K to farmhouse project
By Christine Metz
November 15, 2011
A $163,000 project to restore a 121-year-old pioneer home on the site of the Black Jack Battlefield is the big winner in the first round of grants through Douglas County’s natural and cultural heritage grant program.