Archive for Friday, June 26, 2009

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6:00 a.m.
British bikes find home in former goat barn
By Elvyn Jones
June 24, 2009
Their wedding day helped ensure Jim and Joan Vandergriff would have a motorcycle marriage. “We had a Harley wedding,” Jim said. “Virtually the whole front yard was full of motorcycles. I bought a Norton the next day.”
4:39 p.m.
City Council to lift 83rd Street bike ban
By Elvyn Jones
June 25, 2009
The De Soto City Council agreed last Thursday that the ban of bicycles on 83rd Street from Kill Creek Road to the east city limits should be lifted. The ban on the stretch of road was put in place in the late 1990s because the road was thought to be too narrow and hilly to be safe for bike riders.

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State Supreme Court rules against Eudora area landowners in water case
By Scott Rothschild
June 26, 2009
A Kansas Supreme Court ruling on Friday affirms a water district’s right to get a temporary easement for test drilling for groundwater on an area farm.
Commuter Forecast for June 26, 2009
By Ashley Meenen
June 26, 2009
Dry conditions and sunny skies should dominate this morning’s commute.