Chase County
COTTONWOOD FALLS — The Chase County Courthouse Preservation Committee, made a donation this week of $40,000 to the courthouse renovation project. The Chase County Leader-News reported that the money had been raised through donations over the years. The presentation was make at a meeting of the county commission.
Allan Phipps, chairman of the preservation committee, told commissioners that the contractor for the project has suggested that materials in the courthouse basement vault be stored elsewhere during the project. The committee would like the contents inventoried before they are moved. A committee member suggested storing the records in a salt mine at Hutchinson.
COTTONWOOD FALLS — Spc. Brent Schlup, son of Steve and Kathy Schlup of Cottonwood Falls, has been nominated for a Sliver Star for valor for his part in ending a sniper attack on his platoon in Afghanistan.
According the Leader-News, the sniper had the platoon pinned down for 36 hours before Schlup spotted the sniper position and fired an anti-tank round to end the siege.
Schlup was scheduled to return to Fort Drum, N.Y., this week after 16 months in Afghanistan.
Coffey County
LEBO — The Coffey County Republican reports that the city of Lebo is looking for ways to increase municipal revenue. The city council recently discussed the possibility of establishing a municipal sales tax or increasing property taxes.
The city has been running on a tight budget and needs more money to meet its obligations on employee benefits.
In Lebo, a one-mill property tax would raise city revenues by about $4,600.
BURLINGTON — The Burlington City Council has received a request for $13,500 to support activities planned by the Burlington Sesquicentennial Committee. The city will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding on Sept. 21 and 22. The Republican said the council took no action on the request at its recent meeting.
The city’s finance committee will meet at 4 p.m. Monday to discuss the city’s 2008 budget.
Greenwood County
EUREKA — A Eureka man was killed Monday in a one-vehicle accident on Kansas Highway 99 two miles south of Hamilton.
The Eureka Herald said Michael Colonnese, 25, was driving an oil-rig-towing truck owned by Hurricane Drilling of Madison north on the highway when he apparently lost control of the vehicle. Colonnese died in the accident.
Colonnese was a 2001 graduate of Eureka High School.
MADISON — The Madison News reports that at the Madison Days celebration last weekend First Community Bank served 930 hot dogs. Glazier’s said it served about 400 people at Friday night’s hamburger feed. There were 33 entrants in the Verdigris Valley River Run.
MADISON — A Madison company has received a $493,000 grant to help it complete an expansion. The money, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Economic Development Loan Program, will help ABZ Manufacturing complete the interior and exterior of its new building. The expansion is expected to create six new jobs in the next five years.
The grant money will be passed to ABZ through Madison Telephone Co. The grant requires that the money be passed through a public utility.