From left, Eduardo Lopez, Noah Isaac Martinez, and Eian Rafferty
From left, Eduardo Lopez, Noah Isaac Martinez, and Eian Rafferty Newbanks walk into Wellsville High School’s graduation ceremony. Photo by Laura Gulley .
May 2022
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West Franklin senior Colton Hoyt
West Franklin senior Colton Hoyt gives the ‘Hookem Texas’ sign after walking the stage to receive his diploma. Photo by Greg Mast/The Ottawa .
Ottawa High School senior Kirsten Evans
Ottawa High School senior Kirsten Evans is all smiles as she receives her diploma holder as she walks across the stage at Steve Grogan Stadium. Ottawa had one of its largest graduating classes in many years. Photo by Greg Mast/The Ottawa Herald
One of the traditions of the graduates
One of the traditions of the graduates is to decorate their hats. The West Franklin seniors were creative with their art skills.
Prairie Paws Animal Shelter receives $10,000 grant from national nonprofit
Ottawa’s Prairie Paws Animal Shelter is set to receive a $10,000 grant from national nonprofit Petco Love on June 21 at 11 am at the Petco on Iowa Street in Lawrence. Founded in 1999, Petco Love is a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding local animal shelters and adoption centers.
TEACHER SPOTLIGHT: Kelly Rowlett, Central Heights Elementary School
The first thing you’ll notice about Kelley Rowlett is her accent, which makes it clear she’s not from Kansas. Rowlett and her husband moved from Tennessee in 2019, and when she was looking for a teaching job in the area, USD 288 caught her attention.
Traveling exhibit on local Indigenous people comes to Old Depot Museum
A traveling exhibit about Indigenous people in Kansas and Missouri will be on display at Ottawa’s Old Depot Museum for the next two months. The exhibit, called “Living Sovereignty: Sustaining Indigenous Autonomy in Indian Territory in Kansas” was created by graduate students from the University of Kansas’s Museum Studies department in conjunction with the Watkins Museum of History.
Kelly uses veto authority to reject infectious disease, Medicaid and election bills
Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill allowing autonomous vehicles to operate on Kansas roads and vetoed legislation restricting public health officials’ response to all infectious disease outbreaks, a mandate imposing a no-bid contract for Medicaid services and limitations on the executive branch’s enforcement of election law.
Arguments pit process vs result in Kansas Supreme Court debate over legislative maps
TOPEKA — Attorney General Derek Schmidt began proceedings Monday asserting to the Kansas Supreme Court that new boundaries for Kansas House and Senate districts violated no law. He urged them to look at the product, not the process, when determining validity of the map.
Kansas Supreme Court set for high-stakes oral argument on legislative, congressional maps
League of Women Voters co-president Martha Pint wants the Kansas Supreme Court to declare new district boundary maps for the Legislature’s House and Senate districts a violation of the Kansas Constitution.