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Kansas Housing details city and county data
Faith House, Murray Hill, others benefit from funds Travis Hendryx Tribune Reporter Chanute’s Faith House will again receive an emergency shelter grant from the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation, just one of several funding projects announced last week in KHRC’s annual report. Five categories are covered in the report and include funds for emergency shelter grants, weatherization of homes, housing tax credits, local data for the First Time...
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Availability of ebooks delayed at library
Joshua Vail Tribune Reporter The availability of ebooks at the local library was the subject of a program on Wednesday. Chanute head librarian Susan Willis and Chanute librarian Diane Barton led a discussion about ebooks and downloadable media. Currently, the Chanute library facilitates audiobook downloads through the Kansas State Library system. Only audiobooks are available at this time. Readable ebooks for Barnes and Noble’s Nook device a...
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CCT radio show brings 1940s to life
Joshua Vail Tribune Reporter The radiowaves will come to life when the Chanute Community Theatre and the FireEscape Coffeehouse present a live radio play starting Thursday. “Rick Lowell, Private Eye” starts tomorrow night at 7 p.m. on the FireEscape stage. It will also be broadcast live on KFEX, 93.1 Director Scott Cunningham said the piece is a 1940s radio drama that follows the adventures of a private detective in Los Angeles. “He is on the ...
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City OKs water plant improvements
Travis Hendryx Tribune Reporter Bids were approved for water treat plant improvements at Monday’s meeting of the City Commission. Commissioners authorized City Manager J.D. Lester to sign contract documents for the water plant improvements. In 2010, an energy audit was performed on the water treatment plant building and equipment. Several items were listed to improve energy at the plant including a pair of 16-inch water meters located at the...
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NCCC students organize dance for care center
Heritage Health Care Center joined the NCCC volleyball team in “Bringing Hearts Together” on Tuesday. The volleyball team, led by Coach Asya Herron, RSVP volunteers/NCCC ambassadors and the residents and staff put together a Valentine’s Day dance. The event planning brought together the older and younger generations to share their ideas and create the activities for the special day. Students and residents worked together decorating, baking, ...
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Library sweetens deal on Valentine’s Day
Joshua Vail Tribune Reporter All things chocolate were definitely available at All Things Chocolate at the Chanute Public Library on Valentine’s Day. Head librarian Susan Willis said in addition to the regular cakes, pies, cookies and other foods that traditionally contain or are covered in chocolate, there were more interesting items for sale. “We have pretty much anything you can imagine with chocolate in it, including chocolate covered po...
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Walk Kansas registration is open; kickoff March 20
Walk Kansas registration packets are now available from local Southwind Extension District offices. The Kansas State University Research and Extension’s fitness program is scheduled to begin locally on March 18 and continue through May 12¬†The program is designed for teams of six friends, neighbors, family, or co-workers to cover the distance across Kansas during the eight week program. This breaks down to about 30 minutes of activity five da...
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Couple celebrate first anniversary after 20-year courtship
Joshua Vail Tribune Reporter After being together for more than 20 years, an Iola couple decided it was time to tie the knot. Ina and Jack Day celebrated their first wedding anniversary on Jan. 3 of this year. And they marked the event by attending the First Thursday Dance at Chanute’s Central Pavilion. Jack Day had actually asked Ina to marry him two months into their relationship, which began August 17, 1991, but Ina was only fairly recentl...
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FET audit reveals little, lawsuit possible
Travis Hendryx Tribune Reporter The City of Chanute has completed its audit of Fry Environmental Technology (FET) and city officials did not get exactly what they were after. The city is trying to verify the original cost and manufacturer of a processor used in FET’s prototype. The processor was to be used to house the tires, according to JD Lester, City Manager. It is also the most expensive part of the prototype, with total payments of more...
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Vault Denim jeans, home parties make perfect fit
Travis Hendryx Tribune Reporter Business is a lot like sports. In a competitive sense, everyone puts on their pants “one leg at a time.” The adage is no intended pun for Tina Gossett, a Chanute consultant and regional coordinator for Vault Denim, a direct sale women’s designer jeans company. “I began my business with Vault Denim after attending a few open houses. I joined the company in August, 2011 after seeing what a fast-growing, dynamic c...
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American Idol dream postponed
The American Idol dream was sidetracked, but isn’t over for Thayer native Kayla Thornton. Thornton, actually Kayla Satterlee now that she is married, confirmed by phone from her home in Tulsa that the group round was her undoing in Hollywood. “The group audition was really bad. The guy who forgot the lyrics was the only one to go through,” she said. Kayla said her group, who got about two hours of sleep, spent too much time on choreography an...
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Shaw Bridge closed for construction work
The Shaw Bridge project is under way. At Friday’s meeting of the Neosho County Board of Commissioners, George Finical, inspection personnel with Cook, Flatt & Strobel Engineers, P.A., updated the commissioners on the pre-construction work being done on the Shaw River Bridge Project. 160th (Shaw) Road is open to local traffic only on each side of the Shaw River Bridge between U.S. 59 Highway and Elk Road. The Shaw River Bridge is closed. Eve...
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Thayer student wins bee, Royster 8th grader advances
Trenton Smedley, an 8th grader from Thayer Middle School, became the Neosho County spelling champion Friday with the word “poisonous.” Jenny Angleton, an 8th grader from Royster Middle School, was declared the runner up with “scenario,” after a protracted back-and-forth with Angelo Andoyo, grade 5, St. Patrick’s Catholic school. Eleven students participated in the Neosho County Spelling Bee, which was held in the library in Royster Middle Sc...
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Take precaution to provide cybersecurity
Joshua Vail Tribune Reporter It’s always interesting when Tim Fairchild, the branch manager of the Chanute Commercial Bank, is around. Fairchild was at the Chanute Public Library Thursday to lead the first in this year’s jump start series, a series of educational events sponsored by the Friends of the Chanute Library. “We have probably the best library on the planet,” Fairchild said. “They’re always doing stuff, the collection’s great and the...
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FCE trip to travel on Historic Route 66
We have had several questions and requests for information about this years Family Community Education sponsored trip. If you are interested in traveling and learning more about the Historic Route 66 that was the major highway across this country from Chicago to Santa Monica, CA from the 1920s to the 1980s.  This historic route was some 2,400 miles long, went through eight states and three tim e zones.  We will be driving through four of t...
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NCCC imposes tuition, fee hikes for 2012-13
New tuition and fees were established for 2012-2013 at Thursday’s meeting of the Neosho County Board of Trustees. Here are the changes: • $2 per credit hour increase in tuition • $5 per credit hour increase to the book rental fee • $1 per credit hour increase to the incidental fee • $150 increase to campus housing charges • $3 increase to the transcript fee • Deletion of the graduation fee • Deletion of the laundry fee “It is never an easy de...
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Clopp newest addition at Weilert Chiropractic
Travis Hendryx Tribune Reporter Kristin Clopp will be the newest addition to the staff at Weilert Chiropractic in Chanute. Clopp is a certified massage therapist and will begin work at the Weilert Clinic on Monday, Feb. 13 on a part-time basis before moving into a full-time position in March. “I’ve worked in massage therapy for three years but received my license in 2010 from the Massage Therapy Training Institute in Kansas City, which is now...
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CES to present comedy jugglers
The Gizmo Guys, a winning combination of jugglers and humorists, will be performing from the stage at the Chanute Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday, Feb. 15 beginning at 7 p.m. The show is part of the current series of concerts provided by The Chanute Entertainment Series. A special pre-show is planned.  The Gizmo Guys are Allan Jacobs and Barret Felker. They work in a great variety of venues including theaters, Concert Associations, Arts Coun...
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Thayer’s Thornton on Idol’s Hollywood stage
Stu Butcher Tribune editor The Kayla Thornton family of Thayer was glued to the television on Wednesday night. They were hoping to get a glimpse of Kayla while she competed in the Hollywood portion of Fox TV’s American Idol. Both the Wednesday and Thursday shows this week focus on the contestants who earned tickets to Hollywood during auditions throughout the U.S. Kayla sang for the judges in Portland, Ore., said her sister Shannon Bogle, a t...
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IDL autopsy more than visual experience for students
Connie Woodard USD 413 public relations Chanute High School’s human physiology and advanced placement biology students were able to do more than watch an autopsy this year. They researched body organs, wrote an autopsy plan and then tested substances to try and determine a cause of death. The “In Depth: Autopsy” program put together by The Ohio State University Medical Center and its Center of Science and Industry was purchased by the SEK Regi...
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