Anderson County Review — July 17, 2025

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Commissioners may
use ethanol windfall to
stay revenue neutral
Eyes fall on road
department to even up
spending overages
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
GARNETT Anderson County
Commissioners this week
examined drafting some
$622,000 from a county reserve
fund in order to shore up a deficit in the countys initial 2026
draft budget, in order to meet
the states revenue neutral
mandate.
Commissioners drafted the
additional funds from those
paid in a settlement with East
Kansas Agri Energy, after a
years-long court battle over a
final determination of the ethanol plants tax valuation was
settled several years ago.
A first draft of the 2026 budget would have overshot the
countys revenue neutral mark
by some $768,000, and kicked
off an expense cutting discussion that would have focused
primarily on the countys road
and bridge department the
largest line item in the county
budget. Kansas law requires
counties, cities and school districts to restrict property tax
revenue to the same dollar
amount as the previous year
by adjusting mill levies to
accommodate rising property
values, or else meet additional
notification requirements culminating in a separate public
hearing to allow the public to
comment on spending increases.
Though the EKAE funds are
technically tax revenue which
was held in escrow pending
the outcome of the valuation
debate, theyre now held in
reserve and not part of the
countys general budget operation.
The road and bridge department is the largest single
expense category in the annual
county budget at $4.4 million
in estimated expenditures for
2026, it accounts for some 27%
of the initially proposed $16.3
million total spending plan.
The second draft of the budget is not yet binding, and will
not be adopted as official until
its summary is published and
until the conclusion of a public
SEE DRAFT ON PAGE 10
Windows 10 phase out
pits county against
Microsoft, money and
planned obsolescence
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
GARNETT Anderson County government
offices are preparing to follow millions of
other Microsoft Windows 10 software users
into a phase-out of the platform which will
cost home and business computer users an
estimated $40-$50 billion nationwide.
County commissioners met with ad hoc
county tech advisor and treasurers office
employee Harold Deforest Monday for a
short discussion about the transition, after
they compared transition costs for two
desktop computer units in the emergency
planning department to numbers presented
for multiple machines in Anderson County
Sheriff Wes McClains budget proposal.
Inconsistencies in that pricing raised alerts
and spawned a discussion on possible cost
savings for a change out of all the machines
in county offices.
Microsoft announced that Windows 10
will reach its official end of support on
October 14, 2025. After that date, the operating system will no longer get security
updates, bug fixes, or technical support
unless organizations pay extra for special
extended security updates (ESU). The move
is similar to what happened with Windows
7 when Microsoft ended free support in
2020, but many big institutions kept using
it for years, paying millions in ESU fees to
buy time to upgrade legacy systems.
Analysts say millions of devices are
affected by the change. A 2024 estimate from
Statcounter said about 69% of Windows PCs
worldwide still run Windows 10 in the U.S.
That means tens of millions of desktops
and laptops in government offices, schools,
hospitals, factories, banks, small businesses, and homes. Many organizations, especially local governments, utilities, healthcare systems, and small businesses, rely
on older hardware that might not meet
the stricter requirements for Windows 11,
which demands newer processors and security chips.
Industry analysts say the total cost of
SEE WINDOWS 10 ON PAGE 8
Reece Ferguson leads her steer in the exhibit ring
during the beef cattle judging at the Richmond Fair last
Saturday. Storm clouds threatened but fairgoers round-
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 7-17-2025 / JESSIE DUNCAN
ed out a solid weekend with livestock and animal judging, lots of entries, a car show, games and live music.
See more photos on Page 6.
Kobach lands $5.7 million in multi-state opioid settlement
In 2021, 435 Kansans
died from opioid over
doses as plague raged
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
TOPEKA Kansas Attorney
General Kris Kobach Tuesday
announced an approximate
$720 million nationwide settlement with eight drug makers
that manufactured opioid pills
and worsened the nationwide
opioid crisis.
Kansas stands to receive
approximately $5.7 million in
settlement funds.
We are holding these companies accountable for the
human suffering caused by
years of their illegal marketing practices, Kobach said.
These dollars will help save
lives, because the funds will
be used to prevent and treat
drug addiction throughout
Kansas.
The eight defendants and
the total amount they will pay
in funds to address the opioid
crisis as part of the deal are:
Mylan (now part of Viatris):
$284,447,916 paid over nine
years
Hikma:
$95,818,293
paid
over
one to four
years
Amneal:
$71,751,010
paid over 10
years
Kobach
Apotex:
$63,682,369
paid in a single year
Indivior: $38,022,450 paid
over four years
Sun: $30,992,087 paid over
one to four years
Alvogen: $18,680,162 paid in a
single year
Zydus: $14,859,220 paid in a
single year
In addition to these abate-
ment payments, several of
the settlements allow states
to receive free pharmaceutical
products or cash in lieu of this
product. Additionally, seven
of the companies (not including Indivior) are prohibited
from promoting or marketing
opioids and opioid products,
making or selling any product
that contains more than 40 mg
of oxycodone per pill, and are
required to put in place a monitoring and reporting system
for suspicious orders. Indivior
has agreed to not manufacture or sell opioid products for
the next 10 years, but it will
be able to continue marketing and selling medications to
treat opioid use disorder.
The lawsuits that led to the
mose recent opioid settlement
in Kansas were part of broader national litigation against
opioid manufacturers and
distributors. Many states and
localities, including Kansas,
began filing lawsuits against
opioid manufacturers and distributors around 2017, according to Congress.gov.
These lawsuits alleged that
the companies engaged in
practices like misleading marketing and inadequate control
of prescription opioids, contributing to the opioid crisis.
In 2015, Kansas doctors
wrote a high rate of opioid
prescriptions – 86.2 per 100 persons – exceeding the national
average.
In 2021, Kansas saw 435
opioid overdose deaths,
accounting for 64% of all drug
overdose deaths in the state.
Synthetic opioids, including
fentanyl, are particularly
concerning, with associated
overdose deaths more than
doubling each year from 2019
to 2021. Drug overdose deaths
jumped 42 percent in the
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Kansas still allows in-state tuition for undocumented students
Map courtesy of Higher Ed Immigration Portal
In the 2025 legislative session in the Sunflower State, an effort was made to outlaw
the practice, but SB 254 died in committee.
BY DAVID HICKS
THE SENTINEL
For more than 20 years, the State of Kansas
has offered in-state tuition to undocumented
students since then-Governor Kathleen Sebelius
signed House Bill 2145 into law in 2004. Now, with
Florida and Texas discontinuing its programs
this year, Kansas remains one of 22 states and
the District of Columbia to offer the advantage to
illegal aliens.
Eligibility in Kansas for in-state tuition
includes any student who:
has attended an accredited Kansas high
school for three or more years and;
has either graduated from an accredited
Kansas high school or has earned a GED issued
in Kansas and; (a) in the case of a person without
lawful immigration status; has signed and filed
an affidavit with the institution stating that the
person or the persons parents have filed an
application to legalize such persons immigration status, or will file such an application as
soon as such person is eligible to do so, or; (b) in
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NEWS IN
BRIEF
SONIC TO CLOSE FOR
REPAIRS
Garnett Sonic owner Jason
Sjorlund announced the
local Sonic will close for
canopy repairs and building upgrades beginning 8
p.m. Sunday, July 20, and
will likely be closed for several weeks. We appreciate everybodys patience
during this time and look
forward to serving you
again as soon as we have
the construction completed, Sjorlund said.
KEIM BENEFIT SET
A dinner followed by an
auction will be held Friday
August 8th at the Amish
Community Building (18363
NW 1800 Rd, Garnett) for
Chris Keim, who was recently injured in an accident.
Dinner will be served from
5:00-7:30 p.m. The menu
is grilled chicken, mashed
potatoes and gravy, salad,
mixed vegetables, and dinner rolls. Dessert will be
homemade pies and homemade ice cream. Donations
for the auction would be
greatly appreciated and
can be dropped off at 7th
Street Grocery (22800 1700
Rd Garnett KS) or next door
at Midwest Surplus! A list of
auction items will be published prior to the auction.
GARNETT POST OFFICE
NEW PHONE NUMBER
The phone number to the
Garnett Post Office has
changes. The new number
is (785) 433-2242.
SENIOR CENTER SEEKS
MEDICAL EQUIPMEMT
The Garnett Senior Center is
seeking donations of used
medical equipment such
as: walkers, wheelchairs,
scooters, beds, shower
chairs, etc. You may drop
off at the center from 9:30
1:30, Mon-Fri or call Joyce
Martin at 448-4518 for the
item to be picked up.
VFW BREAKFAST
VFW Post 6397 will have
breakfast Sunday, July 20,
from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Biscuits
and gravy, Belgian waffles,
bacon, sausage & eggs will
be served.
AMERICAN LEGION
BINGO ON TUESDAYS
Bingo at American Legion
Post 48 Garnett will be held
every Tuesday, starting time
at 6:30 p.m.
CORNSTOCK TICKETS
Cornstock ticket outlets in
Anderson County are now
selling early bird tickets. See
Chris Janson, The Kentucky
Headhunters, Kelsey Hart
and Trevor Holman & the
Haymakers 9/27 in Garnett.
VFW SETS CORNHOLE
TOURNEYS THURSDAYS
Every Thursday their will be
a cornhole tournament at
the Garnett VFW, 1507 S.
Elm St. It is a family friendly event open to everyone.
Registration begins at 6
p.m., tournament begins at
6:30 p.m. Entry fee is $15.
UNPLANNED
PREGNANCY
Advice & Aid Pregnancy
Center in Overland Park
helps women and their
families make an educated decision about an
unplanned pregnancy by
providing evidence-based,
medical information about
parenting, adoption and
abortion. Call (913) 9620200 for information or visit
www.adviceandaid.com.
You name it,
we print it.
Garnett
Publishing, Inc.
(785) 448-3121
RECORD
ANDERSON COUNTY COMMISSION
JULY 7, 2025
Chairman Leslie McGhee
called the meeting of the
Anderson County Commission
to order at 9:00 AM on July 7,
2025 at the Anderson County
Commission Room. Attendance:
Leslie McGhee, Present: Michael
Blaufuss, Present: Anthony
Mersman, Present. The pledge
of allegiance was recited. Minutes
from the previous meeting were
approved as presented.
County Clerk
Julie Wettstein, County Clerk,
met with the commission. She
presented updates to the county
handbook for review. Discussion
was held on the ECKAA 2026
budget request. They will be taking over the Mid America Nutrition
program.
Road & Bridge
Ethan Lickteig, Road & Bridge
Supervisor, met with the commission. He presented road permit
2025,0707:01 for Southern Star
to check on lines near 1100 Rd,
Welda. Commissioner McGhee
signed the permit. Discussion was
held on county roads and issues
that need to be addressed.
Abatement & Add
Abatement B25-230 and Add
A25-131 were approved as presented.
Adjourn
Meeting adjourned at 12:00
PM due to no further business.
ANDERSON COUNTY
LAND TRANSFERS FILED
Adam Kichler to Tristan Hirt:
North 55 lot 8 & north 55 of
west 108 lot 9 blk 6 Chapmans
Addition to City of Garnett.
Muth Properties LLC to Equity
Trust Company Custodian FBO
Bradley A Wagner SEP IRA:
A tract of land located in nw4
28-22-21, described as follows:
com at nwcor said section 28;
thence s895745e on north line
of said quarter to pob, a distance of 1804.88 feeet; thence
s004725w a distance of
1782.10 feet; thence s894357e
along an existing fence a distance
of 846.15 feet to pt on east line of
said quarter; thence n004725e
on said east line to necor said
nw4 a distance of 1785.49 feet;
thence n895745w on north line
of said quarter to pob a distance
of 846.19 feet; said tract contains
34.65 acres, more or less.
Randall K Storrer to Misty L
Storrer Trustee and Randall K
Storrer Irrevocable Trust dated
7-7-2025: N2 sw4 & s2 nw4
13-23-19.
Minor Child to change his name to
Kolson Carl Singleton.
Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC
has filed a Petition to Foreclose
Mortgage against Braden Rigdon,
et al in the amount of $140,268.44
plus any other fees for an unnpaid
home loan.
Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC
has filed a Petition to Foreclose
Mortgage against Jerry K West III,
Megan West, et al in the amount
of $175,115.03 plus any other
fees for an unnpaid home loan.
ANDERSON COUNTY TRAFFIC
CASES FILED
Truity Federal Credit Union
a/k/a 66 Federal Credit Union
a/k/a Truity Credit Union has filed
a complaint for damages against
Jimmie R Goada in the amount of
$2,118.72 for an unpaid loan.
Capital One, N.A., successor
by merger to Discover Bank has
viled suit against Jarod E Muncy
in the amount of $3,922.47 for an
unpaid credit card.
Colton Carl Singleton has filed
a Petition for Name Change of a
Colton J Wilson has been
charged with driving while suspended; 1st conviction and driving
without headlights on when needed.
James Edward Lamb has been
charged with driving under the
influence and improper driving on
laned roadway.
Ronald Joseph Martz has been
charged with operating a vehicle
without registration or w/expired
tag and for not having vehicle
liability insurance.
Wesley Allan Servos has been
charged with official traffic control
devices; required obedience and
improper u-turn.
Robert Pearson has been
charged with official traffic control
devices.
Vineet Chhapekar has been
charged with speeding 82 mph in
a 65 mph zone.
Branden Levi Hutchison has
been charged with speeding 91
mph in a 65 mph zone.
Michael Clinton Pfeifer, III has
been charged with speeding 75
mph in a 65 mph zone.
Tristain Demi Emori Favinger
has been charged with operating
a vehicle without registration or
with an expired tag.
Mustafa M Casheer has been
charged with speeding 90 mph in
a 65 mph zone.
sample and whether or not
they considered the sample
spoiled.
While visually the
ground beef followed
the spoilage pattern that
researchers thought it
would — that is, it turned
brown after 4-6 days — other
traits told a different story.
The challenge was
when we looked at the other
traits (related to spoilage),
we didnt really fail, ever,
OQuinn said. You would
think that the meat would
start smelling bad or tasting bad, but even at the
very end of the trial we a
had low percentage of our
samples that tasted bad to
consumers.
In other words, OQuinn
said, the meat may look
spoiled, but color is not
a true determinant of a
spoiled food product.
Some of the key takeaways from this study is
the idea that using microorganism growth or bacteria
growth to reflect spoilage
is not really as closely tied
together as we have previously thought, he said.
The findings may have
implications in grocery
stores and other retail settings where consumers are
making purchasing decisions based on such factors as appearance, color
and discoloration traits.
O'Quinn said that efforts to
prevent spoilage in ground
beef should focus on limiting and reducing color
changes, since color changes in the first 4-6 days isnt
a true indicator that the
product is spoiled.
There are obviously
next steps for us to continue
to investigate, but this idea
that bacterial growth alone
drives spoilage of ground
beef is not what our study
showed.
ANDERSON COUNTY CRIMINAL
CASES FILED
Steven Eugene Collins has
been charged with aggravated
criminal sodomy; between a person and an animal.
Brian Allen Arnett has been
charged with criminal damage to
property; without consent value <
$1,000.
Jeffrey Michael Buchanan has
been charged with possession
of cocaine, possession of marijuana, driving under the influence
of alcohol, possession of drug
paraphernalia, transportation of
liquor in an open container and
speeding 39 mph in a 30 mph
zone.
ANDERSON COUNTY CIVIL
CASES FILED
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, July 17, 2025
KDOT urges drivers to
slow down as part of
national safety campaign
Speeding is dangerous
and with more drivers on
the road during the busy
summer travel season,
the Kansas Department of
Transportation (KDOT) is
reminding drivers its not
worth the risk. Through the
end of July, KDOT is participating in the national
Speeding Catches Up With
You campaign to encourage safer driving habits.
Speeding accounts for
more than one-quarter of
all traffic-related fatalities
nationwide, according to the
National Highway Traffic
Safety
Administration
(NHTSA). In Kansas, preliminary 2024 data shows
that 70 people died and
more than 2,000 people were
injured in crashes involving speeding.
To support the campaign,
KDOT has activated speed
feedback signs, a proven
safety
countermeasure,
along four designated safety corridors to reinforce
speed awareness. The signs
have been gathering traffic
speed data and will now also
display drivers real-time
speeds to help promote safe
driving habits. The corridors were selected based on
crash history, input from
local traffic safety partners
and the availability of additional law enforcement.
Drivers may notice an
increased law enforcement
presence in these areas.
Whether youre in a
hurry or just not thinking about how fast youre
going, speeding is a choice
that can have deadly consequences, said KDOT
Behavioral Safety Manager
Gary Herman. Speed limits are there for a reason – to
help keep drivers, passengers and others safe.
Speeding is more than
breaking the law. In addition to the possibility of
injury or death, the consequences are far-ranging and
may include:
Losing control of the
vehicle more easily.
Reducing the effectiveness of seatbelts and child
passenger safety seats.
Increasing the distance
needed to stop.
Raising the likelihood
of costly vehicle repairs or
property damage.
Facing a greater chance
of being stopped and cited
by law enforcement.
For more information
about the dangers of speeding, visit NHTSA.gov.
K-State study reveals insights
into ground beef spoilage
By Madeline Drake, K-State
Research and Extension
news service
MANHATTAN – Kansas
State University meat scientist Travis OQuinn and
his research team have
uncovered
surprising
results that challenge consumers long-held beliefs on
what qualifies as spoiled
ground beef.
Many people have sensory cues on what would
cause them to throw a product away, including brown
bananas, odor in milk, and
slimy deli meats.
Within meat products,
(spoilage) has been intimately tied with bacterial
growth, a belief that if we
reach a magical level of bacterial growth that the product is spoiled, O'Quinn
said. When we look back
at the literature, it is pretty
shaky on where that idea
of a certain bacteria level
came from.
With this information
in mind, OQuinn and
his research team set out
to learn more about what
factors lead to considering
ground beef to be spoiled.
In their study, retail
ground beef packages were
stored in a display case for
14 days. Throughout the
display time, researchers
asked a consumer panel if
they would purchase the
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PORTER
JUNE 16, 1949 JULY 11, 2025
Euleta M. Porter, age 76,
of Garnett, Kansas, passed
away peacefully at her
home on Friday, July 11,
2025.
Mass of Christian Burial
was July 16, 2025 at the Holy
Angels Catholic Church.
Private family burial followed in the Glenloch
Cemetery.
SCHECKEL
SEPTEMBER 24, 1958 JULY 10, 2025
Bernard John Scheckel,
age 66, of Richmond,
Kansas, passed away on
Thursday, July 10, 2025,
at Louisburg Healthcare
and Rehab in Louisburg,
Kansas.
Mass of Christian Burial
was July 15, 2025, at St.
Boniface Catholic Church,
Scipio, Kansas. Burial followed in the St. Boniface
Cemetery, Scipio.
Colony Christian Church
recent message was Freeing
and equipping the captives
Lexy Langworthy led
worship accompanied by
Mike and Petra Billings and
Speed Elsasser. The songs
were "God of Wonders,"
"Cornerstone," "My King
Forever" and "Death Was
Arrested."
For communion meditation Bruce Symes talked
about how we are at a loss
to describe God. Even with
over a half million words in
the English language God
is still indescribable. God's
unconditional love is also
difficult to describe. The
closest we can get is Agape.
Pastor Chase Reibel
spoke from Ephesians 4:7-13
on "Freeing and Equipping
the Captives." We are held
captive by the enemy and
held hostage to sin until
Christ sets us free. Psalms
68:1-3 assures us that God
not only sets prisoners free
but also gives them joy.
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OBITUARIES
Gambling away your paycheck
Speaking Truth by Clint
Decker
Until my mid-30s, I went
to casinos every now and
then, maybe once a year. It
was fun. But then This
is the story of a single mom
with two kids who was
working as a medical professional but had a severe
gambling problem. She
managed to do it okay until
a life crisis, then she started
gambling more. Then with
the rush of an occasional
win, she would go deeper.
During her lowest
points, she writes, I spent
a six-figure court settlement in the span of three
months and lived in seven
places in less than a year.
I dated men and essentially
had sex for money so that I
could continue to gamble.
It got to the point where
every time I drove back to
the casino, Id think about
ways I could hurt myself.
The wanting to die consumed me. I thought, If I
win, Ill live. If I dont, then
I can always commit suicide. I tried to commit suicide three times.
Nerd Wallet found that
in 2023, 62% of Americans
engaged in some form of
gambling. In 2024, people
forked out $172 billion dollars of their paychecks
and retirement savings at
casinos, on sports betting,
scratch-off lottery tickets
and other forms of gambling. Today, the scale of
gambling is at a level like
never before due to technology and public acceptance.
The gambling industry
in partnership with government and business conspired together to produce
a masterful public relations
strategy. Together they
portray gambling as a fun
recreational activity that
also provides needed public funding for education
or other worthy causes.
Consequently, it is deceptively framed as good for
society, so it is given more
access and acceptability. And through it all, the
church remains silent.
On the surface it all
seems innocent, but at its
core gambling is a morally
wretched vice. This evil is
built on a flashy, well-orchestrated scheme of stealing. Mesmerized by the
get-rich-quick idea, gamblers give the card dealer, the convenience store
clerk or the online website
their hard-earned money in
return for a false hope, or
an occasional jackpot.
This devilish vice is
destroying millions of lives.
One report I read stated
that gambling costs the
American economy $14 billion dollars annually, that
includes court and healthcare costs along with credit losses to businesses due
to gamblers unpaid debts
and more. Additionally,
gambling can lead to job
losses, bankruptcies, fraud,
depression, suicide, alcohol
and drug abuse. Do you get
the picture? Ask any family member of someone who
has a gambling problem if
they think gambling is just
a harmless recreational
activity that is for the good
of the economy and jobs.
The Scripture is spot
on when it comes to gambling saying, For the love
of money is a root of all
kinds of evils. It is through
this craving that some have
wandered away from the
faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
(1 Timothy 6:10). The love
of money drives this evil of
gambling, and its misplaced
love has caused people to
wander away from their
jobs, families and God.
Stop saying, Just one
more time, or Just a little bit more. Admit you
have a problem and need
help. And the first person
you need to go to, is God.
He is waiting for you to
turn to Him. He sent Jesus
to die and rise again for
you. However, your love
for money and the rush
from gambling has pushed
Him aside. If things remain
as they are, then one day
you will have to answer to
God for what you are doing.
But there is still time, and
according to His grace and
mercy, He offers you forgiveness through the cross
of His beloved Son. Receive
Him now. Then after you
do, look up Gamblers
Anonymous to get the additional help you need.
A prayer for you Lord
God, open the eyes of the
public to see the dangers
of gambling. Let them see
the harm it is doing to peoples lives. I pray as well for
those caught in its grasp.
Deliver them this day.
Do a miracle and rescue
someone from its tentacles
through the power of Jesus.
In His name. Amen.
Clint Decker is President
of Great Awakenings. Please
share your comment at
cdecker@greatawakenings.
org and follow his blog at
clintdecker.blogspot.com.
Still want to try to
overcome the world?
If we are honest with
ourselves most of us dont
spend much time thinking about God. From
the time we wake in the
morning until we fall
asleep at night we consume ourselves with our
problems. Our family,
job, finances and on and
on. We can even obsess
about the things we do for
pleasure if they are not
going well. I see people
physically and emotionally exhausted from the
busyness of their lives.
Allowing the world to judge
us by our successes or failures has become a part of
contemporary society. So I
ask what is it you are striving for? If you polled most
Americans they would say
security, success, respect,
power and so on. In the
right proportions these are
not bad things. Taken to
the extreme they can be
very bad for us. You see
there is no moral compass
for these things. It is up to
the individual to balance
this out. That is why it is
such a slippery slope if we
have no connection to God.
Much has been made in
the corporate world about
life work balance for health
reasons. If we were to
place God at the head of
this, God, life, work the outcomes would be better. If
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL
BY DAVID BILDERBACK
we were willing to submit
our lives to a God who is, all
powerful, all knowing, ever
present and unchangeable
we would find a transformation in what we desire.
Jesus provides us a promise in John 16:33. In this
world you will have trouble. But take heart I have
overcome the world. God
stands ready and willing
to help us. However he
also stands ready to judge
us. This is the judgment
we should fear, not the
judgment of those in the
world. Jesus makes a fearful statement in Matthew 7
concerning unbelievers at
the end of the age. Then I
(Jesus) will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away
from me you evil doers!
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, July 17, 2025
Over and over, the same budget problem
Doing the same thing over and over
and expecting different results is actually
not the definition of insanity. But it does
characterize the woeful financial gymnastics engaged every year around this time
by city, county and school district officials drafting their budgets in Anderson
County.
Moreover, it characterizes the reason
we will never solve the issue of overloaded
property taxes assessed against residential homeowners here.
It always seems like a new problem
when new numbers arise every year in
every first budget draft, although the real
issue is a result of decades of poor policy
priorities on the part of the City of Garnett
and Anderson County. The predicament
isnt a result of leaders who just cant
stop spending money; the predicament is
rooted in the unaddressed erosion of our
countys industrial and commercial base
over the past 30 years.
To put it simply, weve allowed industries and larger commercial businesses
that pay a big chunk of property taxes to
die out here without replacement, leaving
residential homeowners and agricultural
land as the primary targets of our mill
levies to support the public services we
are not shy in demanding.
There are other culprits as well. The
often cited and derided increases in government regulation and unfunded mandates add to forced expenditures. Market
inflation is obviously always a factor,
particularly in recent years with labor
costs and Bidenflation that rim wrecked
household and public budgets.
But where Anderson County particularly is missing the boat is that it has
failed to pursue real economic development with a solitary, focused gusto actual recruitment efforts seeking new industry and large business to help shoulder the
tax burden. This is a leadership failure
from Garnett and Anderson County commissioners, plain and simple.
The catch of course is that even with
the right plan, failure is still far easier
than success when trying to attract and
expand a tax base in a rural area. Our
leaders can do everything right and still
never get anywhere. But thats no justification to continue to ignore a better plan.
For decades now Anderson County and
the City of Garnett have jointly funded
an economic development effort whose
budget is meager by almost all comparisons, but the size of the budget is not the
problem. Economic development personnel in our community have failed in the
same way that so many others fail across
rural America, relegating themselves to
meetings and trainings and workshops
and other types of comparative busy work
instead of engaging a straight up cold calling sales effort designed to acquire actual
tax base expanding results.
Anyone whos worked in sales knows
the grueling self-flagellation of trying to
build a client list. The act of cold call
selling a community as a location to move
an existing industry which may be completely happy where it is means the potential of hundreds maybe thousands of
telephone calls without a single nibble.
But the mathematical fact remains; if you
dont put your bait in the water, you will
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able community event for the town and
even those who came to visit.
PHONE FORUM
Dont we have a city ordinance on keeping
your lawn mowed in Garnett? East 7th
has got a house with grass three foot tall.
Semis rolling down East 7th and nobody
gives a (deleted). I dont know why we
have the ordinance. Nobody cares. Why do
we mow our grass; just let it go.
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Hey local drivers, lets stop taking 7th
Street during this mess at the roundabout
as a route to get across Maple. Way too
much traffic for this residential street.
Use 6th because its wider, safer and built
for heavier traffic. Thanks.
It was great to see the new Westphalia
Day event come back after so long. Was
a great time, great parade, people had
so much fun because I think they really
missed it. Thanks to everybody who put
this all together and made such an enjoy-
Trump base may not put up with this route on Epstein
President Trump once famously
quipped that he could shoot a man on
5th Avenue and his strongest supporters would stay with him. For nearly a
decade this has seemed true, but today,
the president may have stumbled on the
exception, in the sickening form of the
Jeffrey Epstein case.
It turns out that Epstein is a major test
for Trump in the eyes of his MAGA warriors. They want real answers from this
administration, not fumbled document
dumps and dismissive comments from
the president himself, as we saw this
week.
Now, we have FBI Deputy Director
Dan Bongino who is apparently threatening to resign over the debacle, if Attorney
General Pam Bondi doesnt go first and
a bewildered MAGA base that feels it is
being insulted and lied to by its government, again.
To be sure, Epstein was an awful
human being who preyed on poor underage girls for decades, according to testimony from the Ghislane Maxwell trial
(which I covered in the courthouse), as
well as a wealth of other evidence. But
for most Americans, his crimes and suspicious death are a mere curiosity at this
point.
It is much, much more for hard-core
MAGA. For them, it is nothing less than
COMMENTARY
DAVID MARCUS, FOX NEWS
a test to determine whether or not the
Swamp that has lied to our faces for
decades is still in control.
This week, Steve Bannon said the
only way the Epstein story goes away is
if the 5 to 10 to 15 percent of the Trump
movement, the Pepes and hardcores,
finally just say, Ive had enough of it.
He added that the basic question is, who
is running the country?
Likewise, at the TPUSA convention
in Florida this weekend, which is led by
Trump ally Charlie Kirk and is as pure a
distillation of the core MAGA movement
as exists, my sources tell me that Epstein
is very much the top topic of concern.
But why did this curious case of this
infamous creep and his private island
become a synecdoche for all government
lies in the mind of MAGA? In other
words, how did Epstein become the symbol of deep government corruption?
For one thing, the notion Epstein was
allowed to kill himself inside a federal
prison has always strained credulity.
From missing video to conflicting medical exams, there have been legitimate
questions about how a man rumored to
have damaging information on powerful
people and ties to the intelligence community could turn up dead in federal custody. While officials assured the nation
there was nothing to see, MAGA seethed.
Epstein didnt kill himself became not
just a meme and a mantra, but a declaration that weve been gaslit by our government.
There is also the matter of Bondi seeming to indicate that there was an Epstein
client list in a Fox News Channel interview, only to now say it doesnt exist. She
says she was talking about the file writ
large, but it didnt sound that way at the
time.
Bongino, in recent weeks, along with
FBI Director Kash Patel, told us that a
video from the prison is proof positive
that this was suicide, but it turns out
there was a missing minute of footage,
and the video may have been doctored.
SEE MARCUS ON PAGE 8
Banana Ball is the antidote for boring old baseball
Major League Baseball is currently debating various rules changes to
improve the game, when what it really
needs is more players wearing capes and
doing backflips.
That, at least, is the lesson of Savannah
Bananas, the barnstorming team that
has come up with a madcap version of
baseball that is widely popular and selling out stadiums around the country.
The Bananas, or the Nanners, as
devotees call them, sold out Clemson
Universitys Memorial Stadium back in
April, with 81,000 in attendance. Tickets
for a couple of games at Yankee Stadium
in September are selling on secondary
sites at rates significantly higher than
any Yankees game.
Whos Yankee ace Max Fried compared to Dakota Stilts, the Bananas pitcher who bestrides the mound standing at
10 feet and 9 inches on, yes, stilts? The
Bananas and their handful of spin-off
clubs have made the American pastime
even more American.
Banana Ball, currently on what it calls
a world tour, is the baseball equivalent
of the carnival coming to town. It taps
into the barnstorming baseball tradition
that goes back to the 19th century, into
the antic spirit of minor-league baseball
with its corny entertainment between
innings, and into the showmanship of
the Harlem Globetrotters. Twerking and
behind-the-back catches are all encouraged.
The Savannah Bananas were originally part of the Coastal Plain League, a
summer league for college ballplayers.
When the teams exhibition games with
NATIONAL COMMENTARY
RICH LOWRY, King Features Syndicate
modified rules proved more popular than
their staid standard fare, they went all
exhibition.
We associate baseball with lazy summer afternoons, but theres nothing lazy
about Banana Ball.
It takes everything dull or overly subtle about baseball and smashes it underfoot while dancing to a pop song.
At the end of the day, does anyone
besides the true connoisseur enjoy seeing a batter try to bunt? In Banana Ball,
bunting is strictly prohibited and any
attempt will get the offending batter
ejected from the game.
Then, there are walks. Who walks in a
real sport? What is this, golf? In Banana
Ball, after the pitcher issues a base-onballs, every fielder besides the pitcher
and catcher has to touch the ball before
the runner can be tagged out. This creates an incentive for runners to actually
run out of the batters box, and very often
they reach second base.
Banana Ball, correctly, views inces-
sant and unnecessary delay as the enemy
of fan engagement. Batters cant step out
of the batters box. There are no visits
to the mound. The game is timed and
cant last more than two hours. (MLB
has taken steps in this direction with the
wondrously successful innovation of the
pitch clock, but can still do more to hustle things along.)
In loud and intense football stadiums,
the fans are called the 12th man. In
Banana Ball, the fans are literally the
10th fielder — if one of them catches a foul
ball on the fly, the batter is out.
Whoever wants to know the heart and
mind of America, the French-American
historian Jacques Barzun famously
wrote, had better learn baseball.
Intellectuals arent going to rhapsodize about Banana Ball, but it says something about America, too. Its popularity
shows how much we prize speed, constant entertainment and, oh yeah, viral
moments on social media (which Banana
Ball provides in abundance). Kids, in
particular, love it.
Banana Ball isnt a sacrilege against
the game, any more than wiffle ball or
beer-league softball are. It is a popularization of baseball and advertisement
for it, demonstrating how a game that is
perceived as dull and uneventful can be
the occasion for rollicking fun.
We wont be arguing decades from
now about who was the best Banana Ball
player of this era. We can enjoy the spectacle all the same.
SEE LOWRY ON PAGE 5
Dane, I hope you are planning to do a
story on all these lies being told by the Left
about how Medicaid cuts are going to kill
all the poor people and close all the hospitals. Its amazing to me that people wont
do just a little bit of research on their own
to see what the real facts of the Medicaid
situation are. Several years ago CBS News
pointed out Medicaid was the single largest source of governmental waste, fraud
and abuse, and that even included the
defense industry. I am sending you some
links I think you will find informative.
Thank you, (name deleted).
Contact your elected leadership:
President Donald Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
(202) 456-1111
Governor Laura Kelly
300 SW 10th Ave #241s,
Topeka, KS 66612
(785) 296-3232
email form:
www.governor.kansas.gov
Senator Roger Marshall
Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C., 20510
(202) 224-4774
Senator Jerry Moran
2202 Rayburn House Office
Building
Washington, D.C., 20510
(202) 224-6521
3rd Dist. Congressman
Sharice Davids
1541 Longworth House Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C., 20515
(202) 225-2865
12 Dist. Sen. Caryn Tyson
300 SW 10th St. Rm 236-E
Topeka, Ks. 66612 (785) 296-6838
P.O. Box 191 Parker, Ks. 66072
(913) 898-2366
caryn.tyson@senate.ks.gov
9th Dist. Rep
Fred Gardner
State Capitol Room512-N
Topeka, KS 66612
Office: (785) 296-7451
fred.gardner@house.ks.gov
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, July 17, 2025
Great finds during KATP
My participation in the
2025 Kansas Archeology
Training Program (KATP)
continues.
Monday 9 June
A beautiful day, except
the wind gusts were terrible. In fact they tried to
dismantle our tents a few
times. They sent us scrambling for more stakes and
tie downs. In fact we had to
take one tent down.
As the students troweled
away they continued to
find artifacts. Excavating
in our two grids was really
difficult as it was nothing
but solid clay. Screening
for me was something else.
I had to use my hand trowel
and slice it to get it through
the screen.
A few things found today
were: Plain brass button,
a very large shard of a big
clay bowl, several shards
of decorative dishware,
22-long rifle brass shell casing, lead washers, a large
iron rock masons tool, and
the usual nails and glass
shards. Paid Wendys a
visit tonight. Called Kay
before retiring for the day.
Tuesday 10 June
Another nice overcast
day and a nice breeze all
day. The students are
slowly but surely working
their way through the clay
soil. They are so patient
and energetic. Today was
a great day for finds. In
fact Michaela Young (WU
Student) found a Civil War
Eagle cuff button. The oldest artifact found thus far.
Other artifacts found today
110 years ago – Telephone lineman cheats death
DIGGING UP THE PAST
THAT WAS THEN
Henry Roeckers
Call (785) 448-6244 for
local archeology information.
PAULA SCOTT REVIEW HISTORY COLUMNIST
include: nice porcelain button, slate pencil, unfired
22 long rifle bullet, shards
of dishware, crock and
glass, lots of pesky nails.
Tonight I made a trip to
Dillions grocery store and
to Phillips 66 gas station.
For some reason my truck
just wont run right without gas. In fact it wont run
at all! Called Kay.
Wednesday 11 June
Starting to warm up, in
fact quite hot in the afternoon. Its a good thing we
have some breeze where we
are at. About mid afternoon
someone had purchased
three big watermelons, so
we had a watermelon feast.
Oh Boy!
Students trying hard to
reach 10 centimeters depth
in both grids (units).
Artifacts found today:
1920s brass overall button,
sewing needle, another
large shard of clay crock,
brass harness rivet, broken
rock masons tool, numerous shards of dishware.
Burger King for supper
before calling Kay for the
day.
Respectfully submitted
by: Henry Roeckers.
7July2025
LOWRY…
FROM PAGE 4
The supposed inventor of baseball, Abner
Doubleday, got much right. So, who can blame him for
not realizing how much the game could be enhanced
by adding musical numbers and having pitchers
throw from trampolines?
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.
OPEN
FOR
Historical gleanings
from past newspapers.
1885 – 140 years ago
July 17 – Crystal Lake is
becoming a very popular
pleasure resort under the
management of the new
proprietor, Mr. Wren, who
has added several fine row
boats to the other attractions.
July 17 – Health Officer
Burson is shaking up the
dry bones in a lively manner, ordering privies and
outbuildings cleaned and
disinfected, and a general
renovation of things.
1895 – 130 years ago
July 19 – Probate Judge
Brown made an order to
send William E. Freeman
to the State Reform school
on Monday. The order was
made on the request of the
boys father.
1905 – 120 years ago
July 18 – The Garnett
Gun Club, recently organized, held their first
shoot last evening at the
ballpark. Clay pigeons
were used. The club will
have another shoot this
evening.
July 20 – There are several young men in Garnett
who are engaged in peddling booze and enticing
other men into places that
are questionable to say
the least. They are trying
to persuade the man who
works all week to blow his
money. These young men
are unfitting themselves
for any honest labor, and
will in time, become outcasts and criminals with-
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 07-17-2025 / ARCHIVE
Circa July 2015 4-H members, from left, Remington Hedges, Jenna Schmit, Abbie
Fritz, Rebecca Sprague, and Kendra Sprague helped sew borders of each quilt block to
prepare the 4-H Scholarship Quilt, which will be auctioned Aug. 7 to benefit an annual
scholarship given to a graduating Anderson County 4-Her.
out home or friends.
be laid up a week or so.
1915 – 110 years ago
July 22 – Paul Wright,
a home telephone lineman, had a very narrow
escape from death at 10:30
oclock this forenoon, 2,300
volts of electricity passing through his body. He
was stringing wire in the
alley back of Miss Bertha
Harders home when the
accident occurred. Paul
leaned back against a telephone wire, causing it to
come in contact with an
electric light wire, creating a circuit, and burned
him severely in two places. He dropped twenty-five
feet, falling across a board
fence. In falling, a pole step
caught under his chin,
making an ugly wound.
Paul was unconscious a
few minutes, and C. A.
Wadman, who was near
him, thought Paul was
dead. However, he soon
recovered. Mr. Wadman
says he is surprised that
Pauls injuries are not
more serious. Indeed, he
says, it is a mystery that
he was not killed. He will
1935 – 90 years ago
July 18 – D. W. Yokam
and Merle Smith, local
aviators, have engaged
LaVerne Dawson, said to
be the youngest licensed
parachute rigger in the
United States to make a
parachute jump at the
Garnett airport two miles
northwest of town. Yokam
and Smith also will feature fifty-cent airplane
rides.
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HISTORY
1945 – 80 years ago
July 19 – The newly
organized Garnett Saddle
Club, operated by Kenneth
Wyatt
and
Homer
Benjamin in connection
with the Sales Barn, is
beginning to be a popular concern. Business is
good and is expected to
be better with more riders in and around Garnett
becoming interested in
horseback riding. Sunday
there were 50 riders who
rented the horses for onehour periods during the
day.
Millers Construction, Inc.
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2015 – 10 years ago
July 21 – People who
monitor police scanners
no longer can hear messages from the Anderson
County Sheriffs and
Garnett Police departments because of a technical upgrade that was
installed Friday, July
17. The move puts a new
cloak of secrecy around
local police work in a community where many residents relied on their police
scanners to hear what
was going on locally and
to monitor and evaluate
the actions and policies of
local law enforcement.
EST. 1980
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1995 – 30 years ago
July 17 – The county
will start moving ahead
with the construction of
a building over the solid
waste transfer station
at the Anderson County
Landfill next week, after
bids are opened today.
Plans call for a metal
building to be built over
the current loading structure at the transfer station
to keep the trash dumped
there relatively dry.
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22468 NW Indiana Rd Welda, Ks
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Post Frame Construction
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RICHMOND FAIR
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, July 17, 2025
Over 70 cars shine at Richmond Fairs first annual car show!
The Richmond Kansas
Free Fair hosted its First
Annual Car Show on
Saturday, July 12, drawing
more than 70 registered
cars along Central Avenue
in Richmond. The free
event welcomed participants and spectators from
across the area to celebrate
classic and modern vehicles, with music by Brian
Mader, BFM Entertainment
setting the tone for a lively day. A surprise visit by
Nice Ride Photography KC
captured the moments and
an chance for the owners to
purchase professional photos of their rides. Attendees
had the opportunity to tour
the food, textiles, art and
gardening exhibits; the 4H
animal entries, and enjoy
food and drinks from the
local fair food stands.
Attendees also enjoyed
raffles to support the Fair,
offering prizes ranging
from gift certificates to
cash, generously donated
by local sponsors. There
was also a 50/50 raffle
that raised $320, with half
awarded to winner Larry
Katzer of Garnett, Kansas,
who in turn donated his
winnings back to support
the event.
A secret panel of judges
selected winners in multiple categories:
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 07-17-2025 / AUDREY LEVOTA
Curt Wittmans 1955 Chevy Cameo.
Best of Show #57
– Curt Wittman
1955 Chevy Cameo,
Scipio KS
1st Place #55 Jake Ernest 1958
Chevy
Impala,
Garnett KS
2nd Place #46
– Phillip Metsker
1961 Ford Unibody
F100, Lawrence KS
3rd Place #33
– Gary Rose 1972
Chevy
Truck,
Ottawa KS
Judges Choice
to #21 – Sydney
Wettstein 1964 Ford
Falcon, Garnett KS
The event was
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 07-17-2025 / AUDREY LEVOTA
A shot looking West down Central Street in Richmond
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
07-17-2025 / AUDREY LEVOTA
Sydney Wettstein (daughter of
Brandon and Julie Wettstein) Best of
Show Winner presenting a trophy to
1st Place Winner Jake Earnest
organized and sponsored
by the Richmond Kansas
Free Fair, with special
thanks to Brand N Iron Bar
and Grill, Snap-On representatives, Jack Snyder &
Jaxco Energy, and Larry
Katzer for their generous
support and donations.
Aaron Oestreicher, Fair
Board Member and Event
Organizer expressed gratitude to all who participated and made the car show
a success, noting plans to
continue the tradition in
coming years to build on
this strong first showing.
We dont rent pigs.
But we do all kinds
of printing.
Garnett Publishing, Inc.
(785) 448-3121
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 7-17-2025 / JESSIE DUNCAN
Kids showing their goats.
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 07-17-2025 / SUBMITTED
Above – Pictured is Joiey Ferguson. Joiey had a remarkable
showing at the Richmond Free Fair winning Grand Champion
in Showmanship, Grand Champion Overall Female, Grand
Champion Overall Steer, finished 1st in her class with her other
calves, 2nd in Livestock Judging and won the Stockman Award
for 2025.
Below – Jerzy Ferguson with her steer.
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 7-17-2025 /
JESSIE DUNCAN
Brayden Gillespie – Sheep Show Champion
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, July 17, 2025
Local students complete degrees
at Wichita State University
CALENDAR
Thursday, July 17, 2025
4:30 p.m. – Farmers Market
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:00 p.m. – 13 Point Pitch &
Snacks at Garnett Senior
Center
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics
Anonymous
7:30 p.m. – Delphian Masonic
Lodge Meeting
Friday, July 18, 2025
8:45 a.m. – AM Yoga
11:00 a.m. – Collage Bookmarks
@ Garnett Public Library
5:30 p.m. – Water Aerobics
Monday, July 21, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
9:00 a.m. – Anderson County
Commission Meeting
6:00 p.m. – Celebrate Recovery
6:00 p.m. – Hot Yoga with
Jenelle
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
10:00 a.m. – Storytime For
Preschoolers
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:30 p.m. – American Legion
Bingo
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics
Anonymous
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
8:45 a.m. – Yoga
9:30 a.m. – Catholic Resource
Bus
1:00 p.m. – Duplicate Bridge
6:30 p.m. – Awana
7:00 p.m. – Book Discussion at
Garnett Public Library
Thursday, July 24, 2025
2:00 p.m. – Emergency Food
Assistance Program
(Harvesters)
4:30 p.m. – Garnett Farmers
Market
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:00 p.m. – 13 Point Pitch &
Snacks at Garnett Senior
Center
6:00 p.m. – Garnett Republican
Party Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics
Anonymous
Friday, July 25, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
5:30 p.m. – Water Aerobics
Saturday, July 26, 2025
11:00 a.m. – Stay and Play @
Garnett Public Library
Monday, July 28, 2025
Anderson County Fair
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
9:00 a.m. – Anderson County
Commission Meeting
5:30 p.m. – Water Aerobics
6:00 p.m. – Celebrate Recovery
6:00 p.m. – Hot Yoga with
Jenelle
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Anderson County Fair
10:00 a.m. – Storytime hosted
by the Garnett Public Library
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:30 p.m. – American Legion
Bingo
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics
Anonymous
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Anderson County Fair
8:45 a.m. – Yoga
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WICHITA – More than
1,950 students completed a total of 2,122
degrees and certificates at Wichita State
University in spring
2025.
Among
them
are local students
Aubree K Holloran
(Colony), Bachelor of Arts
in Education, Elementary
Education, Magna Cum
Laude and Garrett H Bures
Bures
Holloran
(Garnett), B.S. in Health
Science, Health Science,
Magna Cum Laude.
Local students named to
Dean's Honor Roll at WSU
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The Crest Lancers trap team recently participated in the KTA State Trap Meet in Wichita.
HS Trap Team members who participated are pictured front row, from left: Koiy Miller, Gage
Jones, Josie Walter, Tristan Boone. Back row, from left: Breakin Jones, Kade Nilges, Karlee
Boots, Trewit Luedke, Jaxon Palmer, Trent Luedke, Klaire Nilges, Easton King. Jones finished 1st place overall in the novice division by accurately hitting 94 of 100 clay targets.
WICHITA – Wichita State
University has announced
the names of 3,710 students who were on the
WSU Dean's Honor Roll for
spring 2025.
To be included on the
dean's honor roll, a student
must be enrolled full time
(at least 12 credit hours)
and earn at least a 3.5 grade
point average on a 4.0 scale.
Area students Aubree
K Holloran, Colony, and
Madison S Danner, Kelcee
M Finn and Hallie M Fritz,
all of Garnett.
LAWRENCE Nearly
8,700 undergraduate students at the University of
Kansas earned honor roll
distinction for the spring
2025 semester.
Area students honored
were: Madeline Spencer of
Colony, Tana Benton, Ally
Duke, Lily Gruver, George
Kent, Ridge Smith and Moe
Sumner, all of Garnett,
Jacob Kice of Richmond
and Kade Day and Reggi
Lickteig, both of Greeley.
Nine area students earn Emporia KU announces students named
to spring 2025 honor roll
State University degrees
EMPORIA – Over 500
Emporia State University
students graduated during
ceremonies in May 2025.
Graduate students were
recognized May 9; undergraduate students on May
10. Students from this area
who graduated include:
Amy Gretencord of
Garnett, Kansas, with a
Master of Science in School
Counseling .
Blake A Hess of Garnett,
Kansas, Cum Laude with a
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre
and a minor in.
Chris Kent Peine of
Garnett, Kansas, with a
Bachelor of Music in Music
with a concentration in
Music Performance and a
minor in.
Abigael M Reid of
Garnett, Kansas, Cum
Laude with a Bachelor
of Science in Health and
Human Performance and
minors in.
Josh Scott Stifter of
Greeley, Kansas, Magna
Cum Laude with a Bachelor
of Science in Sport
Leadership & Recreation
and a minor in.
Elizabeth Ann Foltz
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games and Tom Wittry had
the most hands of 13 points
with five.
We were also joined by
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LOCAL
Trump Administration announces expedited
Congressionally mandated disaster assistance for farmers
WASHINGTON – U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture
Brooke
L.
Rollins
announced today that agricultural producers who
suffered eligible crop losses
due to natural disasters in
2023 and 2024 can now apply
for $16 billion in assistance
through the Supplemental
Disaster Relief Program
(SDRP).
To expedite the implementation of SDRP, USDAs
Farm Service Agency (FSA)
is delivering assistance in
two stages. This first stage
is open to producers with
eligible crop losses that
received assistance under
crop insurance or the
Noninsured Crop Disaster
Assistance Program during
2023 and 2024. Stage One
sign up will start in person
at FSA county offices on
July 10 and prefilled applications are being mailed
to producers today, July 9.
SDRP Stage Two signups
for eligible shallow or
uncovered losses will begin
in early fall.
American
farmers
are no stranger to natural
disasters that cause losses
that leave no region or crop
unscathed. Under President
Trumps leadership, USDA
has worked around the
clock to deliver this relief
directly to our farmers,
said Secretary Rollins. We
are taking swift action to
ensure farmers will have
the resources they need to
continue to produce the
safest, most reliable, and
most abundant food supply
in the world.
This
announcement
follows Secretary Rollins
comprehensive plan to
TUITION…
FROM PAGE 1
the case of a person with a
legal, nonpermanent immigration status, has filed
with the postsecondary
educational institution an
affidavit stating that such
person has filed an application to begin the process for
U.S. citizenship or will file
such application as soon as
such person is eligible to
do so.
The issue is controversial. Supporters argue
many
undocumented
students could not afford
ever-increasing
tuition
without the benefit and
become productive and
tax-paying members of
society with their degreein-hand. Opponents counter that the practice discriminates against out-of-state
Americans who might wish
to attend college in another state but are prevented
from doing so by the cost.
The discrimination argument is one made by the
Trump Administration in
its Executive Order issued
in the Spring:
The Attorney General,
in consultation with the
Secretary of Homeland
Security and appropriate
agency heads, shall identify
and take appropriate action
to stop the enforcement of
State and local laws, regulations, policies, and practices favoring aliens over
any groups of American
citizens that are unlawful,
preempted by Federal law,
or otherwise unenforceable, including State laws
that provide in-State higher
education tuition to aliens
but not to out-of-State
American citizens that may
violate 8 U.S.C. 1623 or that
favor aliens in criminal
charges or sentencing.
When
reached
for
comment, Kansas House
Speaker Dan Hawkins hinted at another attempt at
a legislative remedy next
year:
Like a lot of people, I
was surprised to learn that
Kansas was in this group of
states. Its definitely something were going to need to
take a look at next session.
vine losses by leveraging existing Noninsured
Crop Disaster Assistance
Program (NAP) and Risk
Management
Agency
(RMA) indemnified loss
data. The pre-filled applications will be mailed on July
9, 2025.
Eligibility
Eligible losses must be
the result of natural disasters occurring in calendar
years 2023 and/or 2024.
These disasters include
wildfires,
hurricanes,
floods, derechos, excessive
heat, tornadoes, winter
storms, freeze (including a
polar vortex), smoke exposure, excessive moisture,
qualifying drought, and
related conditions.
To qualify for drought
related losses, the loss must
have occurred in a county
rated by the U.S. Drought
Monitor as having a D2
(severe drought) for eight
consecutive weeks, D3
(extreme drought), or greater intensity level during the
applicable calendar year.
Producers
in
Connecticut,
Hawaii,
Maine, and Massachusetts
will not be eligible for
SDRP program payments.
Instead, these states chose
to cover eligible crop,
tree, bush, and vine losses through separate block
grants. These block grants
are funded through the
$220M provided for this
purpose to eligible states in
the American Relief Act.
How to Apply
To apply for SDRP, producers must submit the
FSA-526,
Supplemental
Disaster Relief Program
(SDRP)
Stage
One
deliver the total amount of
Congressionally appropriated $30 billion in disaster
assistance to farmers and
ranchers this year. These
programs will complement the forthcoming state
block grants that USDA
is working with 14 different states to develop. This
expeditious timeline is in
direct contrast to the Biden
Administrations USDA
where disaster relief programs took an average of 13
monthsand in one case 19
monthsto reach farmers
and ranchers.
To date, USDA has issued
more than $7.8 billion in
Emergency Commodity
Assistance
Program
(ECAP) payments to more
than half a million eligible
producers. Additionally,
USDA has provided over $1
billion in emergency relief
through the Emergency
Livestock Relief Program
to producers who suffered grazing losses due to
drought or wildfires in calendar years 2023 and 2024.
USDA disaster assistance information can
be found on farmers.gov,
including the Disaster
Assistance Discovery Tool,
Disaster-at-a-Glance fact
sheet, Loan Assistance
Tool, and the FarmRaise
online FSA education hub.
Payment details will be
updated here weekly. For
more information, contact
your local USDA Service
Center.
Program Details:
SDRP Stage One
FSA is launching a
streamlined,
pre-filled
application process for
eligible crop, tree, and
Application, in addition to
having other forms on file
with FSA.
SDRP Stage One Payment
Calculation
Stage One payments are
based on the SDRP adjusted NAP or Federal crop
insurance coverage level
the producer purchased for
the crop. The net NAP or
net federal crop insurance
payments (NAP or crop
insurance
indemnities
minus administrative fees
and premiums) will be subtracted from the SDRP calculated payment amount.
For Stage One, the total
SDRP payment to indemnified producers will not
exceed 90% of the loss and
an SDRP payment factor
of 35% will be applied to
all Stage One payments.
If additional SDRP funds
remain, FSA may issue a
second payment.
Future Insurance
Coverage Requirements
All producers who
receive SDRP payments
are required to purchase
federal crop insurance or
NAP coverage for the next
two available crop years at
the 60% coverage level or
higher. Producers who fail
to purchase crop insurance
for the next two available
crop years will be required
to refund the SDRP payment, plus interest, to
USDA.
SDRP Stage 2
FSA will announce additional SDRP assistance for
uncovered losses, including
non-indemnified shallow
losses and quality losses
and how to apply later this
fall.
WINDOWS 10…
FROM PAGE 1
the forced migration
could reach tens of billions of dollars in the
U.S. alone over the next
two to three years. Many
old computers cant run
Windows 11, so theyll
have to be replaced at
an average cost per new
business-grade machine
of $800$1,500. Users will
also have to buy new
Windows 11 licenses,
usually included with
new devices, or pay for
extended security updates
if theyre delaying migration, and pay labor and IT
rates to assist users in the
changes.
The federal government alone spent over $1
billion on Windows XP
and Windows 7 end-of-life
transitions, and experts
expect a similar or larger
bill this time due to stricter hardware needs.
Critics argue this is a
textbook case of planned
obsolescence: by setting
minimum system requirements for Windows 11 that
exclude many older yet
functional PCs, Microsoft
effectively forces hardware upgrades and new
license sales, boosting
its own and PC makers
revenue. Proponents say
stronger hardware and
security requirements
are necessary to counter
modern cyber threats and
enable newer features
like secure boot and modern encryption.
Commissioners tasked
DeForest with preparing
an inventory of the affected machines and setting
about the process of collecting bids from several
vendors to move toward
the transition.
HICKS…
FROM PAGE 4
likely wait a very long for a
fish to jump into your boat.
And weve been waiting a
long time. Gone are industries that once crewed our
Garnett Industrial Park
like United Telephone,
Warner Manufacturing and
Astro Truck Covers, among
others. There have been
fabulous additions over the
years, but the multipliers in
the county and city budgets
clearly show those handful
of acquisitions and developments have not kept pace
with growing modern costs.
Meanwhile, market forces raise the values of our
properties, which is a good
thing according to our balance sheets, but which also
results in a higher tax liability when private owners
make up so much of the tax
base.
The result is clear and inescapable. We will not solve
this problem or even ease
its pain unless the City
of Garnett and Anderson
County radically overhaul
our economic development
initiatives here.
We need to make a quota
of daily calls to industries
MARCUS
FROM PAGE 4
This was after Bondi all but
hijacked a group of influencers in the spring at the
White House, handing out
binders purporting to share
new bombshell information
that turned out to be as
exciting as a list of grandmas baking recipes.
On top of all of this, we
have President Trump himself, visibly annoyed in the
White House, this week
when asked about Epstein,
Are you still talking about
this guythis creep?
Trump asked. Well, yes,
Mr. President, they are.
Trump has expressed
concern in the past about
innocent people being listed in Epstein documents,
as happened to attorney
Alan Dershowitz and others, and according to Elon
Musk, both Trump and
Bannon appear in this evidence, though Musk offers
no proof of this.
This may be a reasonable concern, but after
decades of blatant lies and
stalled prosecutions of
Epstein, Trumps hardcore
supporters want more than
assurances. They want to
see the documents. They
want to see everything.
And this is a central
part of Trumps appeal,
to ask about any inklings
they may have to relocate.
When unspeakable tragedies like wildfires and flash
floods ravage communities
in other states, we need to
target industries in those
areas for our personal sales
calls or advertising initiatives. We need to scan news
sources for comments from
disgruntled business owners who might like to leave
the jurisdictions they see
as afflictive. When crime
or riots or mass shootings
plague communities, we
need to make our pitch
in those very places and
stress Anderson Countys
negligible crime rate and
Midwestern stability.
Most of all, we need to stop
waiting for someone else to
fix the problem. The Kansas
Department of Commerce
is never going to bring us a
goose that lays golden eggs,
and Overland Parks iron
pavilions arent giant petri
dishes that will grow tax
paying businesses.
We may do all these things
and still fail. But we know
where were headed by continuing to do the same old
thing.
his promise to open up
the hood and expose the
broken-down, deep-state
engine of government. But
promises are not enough.
Where are the results?
When are we going to Fort
Knox as promised, for
example?
A breathtaking hallmark
of the second Trump term
has been extreme transparency. The president takes
questions almost daily,
and answers with candor.
Except, it seems, when it
comes to Jeffrey Epstein.
For a quarter-century
now, the Epstein case has
been a combustible cocktail of power, greed, private
islands and sexual abuse. It
has ushered in both careful
examination and wild conspiracy theories, and the
only way to separate the
two is with complete sunlight onto the evidence.
For President Trump,
this may be the first time
he is risking the loyalty of
his longest, strongest supporters, and for a populist
political movement that is
pure poison.
The time to release everything is now, the future of
MAGA may depend on it.
David Marcus is a columnist living in West Virginia
and the author of Charade:
The COVID Lies That
Crushed A Nation.
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COUNTY FAIR
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Highlights of the
opening of the 2025
Anderson County Fair
The 2025 Anderson
County Fair will start
Saturday, July 26th with
4-H Pre-Fair Judging at
8:30 a.m. in the Community
Building.
This
will
include Clothing, Fashion
Revue, Visual Arts, Fiber
Arts and Photography.
Exhibits
Monday, July 28th, will
be the time to enter exhibits for judging beginning
at 1 p.m.
Beginning at 5 p.m., the
entering and weighing of
animals will take place as
well as the 4-H bake sale.
More Information
For more information
on any of these events,
please visit the Anderson
County Fairs website
or our Facebook page:
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or www.facebook.com/
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PUBLIC NOTICE
SETTLEMENT…
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Sunflower state between 2020 and
2021.
Some estimates say over 140,000
children in Kansas live with caregivers struggling with substance
abuse issues.
The Kansas Fights Addiction
Act, which provides a framework
for the state to receive and distribute opioid settlement funds, was
enacted in 2021. This act formalized
the process for managing settlement
funds and directing them towards
addiction treatment and abatement
programs in the state.
Kansas Attorney General Derek
Schmidt announced the final
approval of a $26 billion opioid settlement with the three major pharma-
ceutical distributors and Johnson
& Johnson in February 2022. This
settlement resolved claims brought
by Kansas and its political subdivisions against those companies.
The recent settlement announced
by Attorney General Kris Kobach
on July 15, 2025, involved eight additional pharmaceutical companies,
including Indivior and Apotex. This
was the latest development in the
ongoing efforts to address the opioid
crisis and hold companies accountable for their roles in it.
North Carolina, California,
Colorado, Illinois, New York,
Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, and
Virginia attorneys general offices
negotiated the settlements on behalf
of Kansas and several other states.
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budget hearing typically held
in August or September.
Even with mill levy reductions in all but five line items
in the proposed 2026 draft, the
first draft would have reflected a 1.534 increase in the
county mill levy that would
have raised taxes on county
property owners by $768,508,
fueling a budget that authorizes some $1.4 million more
in projected spending than
the $14.9 million 2025 plan.
The county budget is based
on a property valuation spike
that saw total property in the
county increase in value by
$7.1 million a little over 5
percent to $144.7 million for
the coming year.
Road department director
Ethan Lickteig told commissioners if his department had
to be targeted for reductions,
he wanted cuts to be made
in equipment, materials and
other hard purchases rather
than the programmed cost
of living adjustment planned
for county employees. The
county road department has
struggled to keep frontline
workers, primarily heavy
machinery operators, since
COVID-inflated wages made
better paying jobs in the
private sector easier to find.
That hot job category action
appears to have cooled in
recent months in Kansas.
General fund expenditures
which include employee salaries, contractual services and
other expenditures, as well
as a separate line item for
an additional employee benefits, are projected to increase
some $440,000 year over year.
The budget draft is expected
to being an agenda topic for
commissioners throughout
the next several weeks.
Public Notice
Your RIGHT to know, guaranteed by Kansas Law.
Current statewide Public Notice archive available at www.kansaspublicnotices.com
Notice of foreclosure
(First published in The Anderson County
Review, Thursday, July 17, 2025.)
Notice of budget hearing for Greeley/Walker Cemetery
tions; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants
that are or were partners or in partnership;
the unknown guardians, conservators and
trustees of any defendants that are minors
or are under any legal disability; and the
unknown heirs, executors, administrators,
devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns
of any person alleged to be deceased,
and all other persons who are or may be
concerned.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
OF ANDERSON COUNTY,
KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT
Freedom Mortgage Corporation
Plaintiff,
vs.
Stacey L. Whitcomb; Unknown Spouse,
if any, of Stacey L. Whitcomb; John Doe
(Tenant/Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/
Occupant),
Defendants.
NOTICE
Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection
Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. 1692c(b), no
information concerning the collection of
this debt may be given without the prior
consent of the consumer given directly to
the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction.
The debt collector is attempting to collect
a debt and any information obtained will
be used for that purpose.
Prepared By:
SouthLaw, P.C.
Blair T. Gisi (KS # 24096)
13160 Foster, Suite 100
Overland Park, KS 66213-2660
(913) 6
63-7600
(913) 663-7899 (Fax)
Blair.Gisi@southlaw.com
Attorneys for Plaintiff
(239880)
You are notified that a Petition has been
filed in the District Court of Anderson
County, Kansas, praying to foreclose a
real estate mortgage on the following
described real estate:
Case No. AN-2025-CV-000016
Court Number:
Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60
Notice of budget hearing for City of Greeley
The East Half (E/2) of Lot Twenty-two
(22) and all of Lot Twenty-three (23)
in Block Twenty-nine (29) to City of
Garnett, Anderson County, Kansas,
commonly known as 309 W 3rd Ave,
Garnett, KS 66032-1305 (the Property)
NOTICE OF SUIT
THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the abovenamed defendants and the unknown
heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of
any deceased defendants; the unknown
spouses of any defendants; the unknown
officers, successors, trustees, creditors
and assigns of any defendants that are
existing, dissolved or dormant corpora-
(Published in the Anderson County Review on Thursday, July 17, 2025.)
Anderson County, Kansas. If you fail
to plead, judgment and decree will be
entered in due course upon the Petition.
and all those defendants who have not
otherwise been served are required to
plead to the Petition on or before the
August 27, 2025, in the District Court of
(Published in the Anderson County Review on Thursday, July 17, 2025.)
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RJ Energy permit for enhanced recovery of oil
saltwater in the Squirrel for the enhanced
recovery of oil for the following leases.
Eastburn: 40 SE SE of Sec 27 Twp 21S R
21E all with the maximum injection rate of
400 bbls per day and maximum injection
pressure of 400 psi.
(Published in The Anderson County
Review, Thursday, July 17, 2025.)
Before the Kansas Corporation
Commission
Notice of Filing Application
injection pressure of 900 psi.
Any persons who object to or protest
these applications shall be required to
file their objections or protest with the
Conservation Division of the Kansas
Corporation Commission within 30 days
from the date of this publication. Protest
shall be filed pursuant to the Commission
regulations and must state specific reasons why granting the applications may
cause water, violate correlative rights or
pollute the natural resources of the State
of Kansas. All persons interested or concerned shall take notice of the foregoing
and shall govern themselves accordingly.
Kittle: 14 SE SE, 2 NE SE, 27 SE SE,
3 SW SE of Sec 5 Twp 21S R 21E with
the maximum injection rate of 100 bbls
per day and maximum injection pressure
of 600 psi.
Re: RJ Energy LLC. Application for
a permit to authorize the injection of
saltwater for the enhanced recovery of
oil on the following leases in Anderson
County, Kansas.
To: All Oil and Gas Producers, Unleased
Mineral Interest Owners, Landowners and
all person whomever concerned.
Rosell: 15 SW NW of Sec 4 Twp 21S R
21E with the maximum injection rate of
100 bbls per day and maximum injection
pressure of 600 psi.
You and each of you are hereby notified that RJ Energy LLC. has filed an
application to commence the injection of
Bailey-Lohrengel: 5 SW NE of Sec 22 Twp
21S R 21E with the maximum injection
rate of 100 bbls per day and maximum
RJ Energy, LLC
22082 NE Neosho Rd
Garnett, KS 66032
(785) 448-6995
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Notice of ordinance establishing
Ethanol Surplus Fund – City of Garnett
(Published in The Anderson County
Review, Thursday, July 17, 2025.)
CITY ATTORNEYS SUMMARY OF
ORDINANCE #4277
On July 8, 2025, the governing body
of the City of Garnett Kansas, passed
Ordinance #4277 abolishing the Tax
Refund Reserve Fund and the Tax
Refund Litigation Fund; and establishing
the Ethanol Surplus Fund, into which
shall be transferred monies remaining in
the two funds being abolished. Sections
4 and 5 of Ordinance 4192 are repealed.
A complete copy of this ordinance
is available free of charge at www.garnettks.net (available for at least one week
following the publication of this summary
notice) or at City Hall, 131 W. Fifth
Avenue, during regular business hours.
This summary is certified by Terry J.
Solander, City Attorney, in compliance
with K.S.A. 12-3007.
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Notice of budget hearing for Pottawatomie City of Garnett 2nd Quarter Treasurers Report
Creek Watershed Joint District No. 90
(Published in The Anderson County Review, Thursday, July 17, 2025.)
(Published in the Anderson County Review on Thursday, July 17, 2025.)
The governing body of
Pottawatomie Creek Watershed Joint District No. 90
Anderson
will meet on 8/5/2025 at 7:00 pm at 146 East 5th Avenue Garnett, KS 66032 for the purpose of hearing and
answering objections of taxpayers relating to the proposed use of all funds and the amount of tax to be levied.
Detailed budget information is avaiable at 146 East 5th Avenue Garnett, KS 66032 and will be available at this hearing.
FUND
SUPPORTING COUNTIES
Anderson (home county) Coffey, Franklin, Linn, Miami
BUDGET SUMMARY
Proposed Budget 2026 Expenditures and Amount of Current Year Estimate for 2025 Ad Valorem Tax establish the maximum limits
of the 2026 budget. Estimated Tax Rate is subject to change depending on the final assessed valuation.
Prior Year Actual 2024
FUND
General
Debt Service
Expenditures
Totals
Current Year Estimate for 2025
Actual Tax
Rate*
Expenditures
Actual Tax
Rate*
262,359
1.217
530,422
1.201
262,359
1.217
530,422
1.201
Proposed Budget Year for 2026
Proposed
Amount of
Estimated
2025 Ad
Tax Rate*
Valorem Tax
553,297
133,811
1.136
Budget Authority
for Expenditures
553,297
133,811
Revenue Neutral Rate**
0
553,297
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117,841,201
Less: Transfers
Net Expenditures
Total Tax Levied
Assessed Valuation:
0
262,359
133,811
109,996,830
0
530,422
133,811
107,105,618
Outstanding Indebtedness,
Jan 1,
G.O. Bonds
Revenue Bonds
Other
Lease Pur. Princ.
2023
0
0
0
0
2024
0
0
0
0
2025
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total
*Tax rates are expressed in mills.
**Revenue Neutral Rate as defined by KSA 79-2988
Pottawatomie Creek Watershed Jt. District No. 90
CITY OF GARNETT
CITY TREASURER'S REPORT
APRIL, MAY, JUNE
2025
State of Kansas
Special District
NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING
1.136
1.136
3/31/2025
BALANCE
REVENUE
EXPENSE
6/30/2025
BALANCE
GENERAL FUND
AIRPORT FUND
DEBT SERVICE FUND
LIBRARY FUND
PUBLIC SAFETY
SPECIAL HWY FUND
TOURISM
SPEC. PARKS & REC.
ELECTRIC FUND
GAS FUND
SANITATION FUND
WASTEWATER FUND
WATER FUND
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
PARKSIDE PLACE #1
PARKSIDE PLACE #2
PARK PLAZA NORTH
CAPITAL OUTLAY IMPR.
EQUIPMENT RESERVE
MEDICAL RESERVE FUND
TAX REFUND RESERVE
TAX REFUND LITIGATION
DRUG SEIZURE FUND
UTIL. SEC. DEP.
INDUSTRIAL PARK DEVELOPMENT
CREATIVE ARTS GRANT
UNAPPLIED CREDITS
TOTALS
$782,291.08
$601,552.04
$774,630.02
$609,213.10
120,620.14
41,446.01
38,214.10
$123,852.05
135,825.58
95,221.16
159,690.32
$71,356.42
50,374.41
85,070.09
86,866.12
$48,578.38
293,090.65
348,287.58
323,462.04
$317,916.19
347,643.30
102,881.13
52,638.72
$397,885.71
92,228.55
4,559.46
9,805.25
$86,982.76
20,843.57
1,427.87
10,000.00
$12,271.44
2,757,348.02
961,275.95
987,961.96 $2,730,662.01
286,338.05
429,375.52
336,560.29
$379,153.28
353,324.29
99,026.45
113,221.13
$339,129.61
500,781.66
206,847.10
185,564.87
$522,063.89
2,090,591.47
397,987.63
462,505.03 $2,026,074.07
82,707.85
42,675.01
28,025.10
$97,357.76
426,801.24
44,063.00
42,035.04
$428,829.20
480,621.96
59,931.00
37,993.58
$502,559.38
580,702.81
85,438.50
46,979.43
$619,161.88
1,971,006.01
170,474.94
422,578.01 $1,718,902.94
636,820.90
117,150.03
185,306.84
$568,664.09
22,501.82
111,700.08
116,635.50
$17,566.40
655,290.24
0.00
0.00
$655,290.24
350,000.00
0.00
0.00
$350,000.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
$0.00
118,899.95
14,500.00
12,903.95
$120,496.00
72,573.84
0.00
487.53
$72,086.31
6,630.62
0.00
0.00
$6,630.62
$20,314.12
17,211.42
445.67
-2,657.03
$13,253,069.43 $4,021,336.22 $4,431,407.80 $12,842,997.85
CHECKING & SAVINGS ACCT.
INVESTMENTS
$3,742,997.85
$9,100,000.00
$12,842,997.85
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INTERIM CITY TREASURER
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Donnas School of Dance 2025 Recital
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 07-17-2025 / ROCKERS PHOTOGRAPHY
On May 31st and June 1st, Donnas School of Dance hosted their annual recital, From the Page to the Stage. Pictured above are all of the dancers that performed in this years recital.
Pictured on the right, from left:
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