U.S. Congressman Roger Marshall’s staff has announced that Marshall met with USD 475 officials on Tuesday including Board of Education member Tom Brungardt, Superintendent of Schools Dr Reginald Eggleston and Chief Financial Officer Marilee Fredricks. They discussed issues impacting USD 475, including the construction of the new Junction City High School and reauthorization of federal heavy impact aid.
Three new members of the Geary Community Hospital Board of Trustees took the oath of office at the Board’s meeting on Tuesday. They included L.J. Baker, Monica Junghans and Brad Scholz, all of whom were recently appointed by the Geary County Commission.
The new members succeed three outgoing members, Vic Davis, Jim Ruhnke and Mark Stenstrom, whose terms expired.
New officers were also elected for the coming year for the Trustees. Theresa Bramlage will serve as chair, Beth Mathis as vice chair, John Kovac treasurer and Cecil Aska as secretary.
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The Junction City High School Marching Band will be among high school bands fro four states that participate in t he Central States Marching Festival at Kansas State University on Saturday.
The festival will feature 36 high school marching bands taking part in clinics with member of the KSU Marching Band staff and presenting field performances judged by a panel of nationally recognized marching band professionals. The bands will receive individual clinics with members of the video critique panel after their field performances and obtain a rating of superior, excellent or good by class with accompanying awards. The categories used in judging include repertoire, performance, coordination, auxiliaries and music.
General admission to the Central States Marching Festival is $10, or $5 with a student ID.
Band clinics will begin at 9 a.m. at Memorial Stadium. Field performances start at 11:45 a.m. at Bill Snyder Family Stadium and will run throughout the day and evening, capped off with a performance by the Pride of Wildcat Land, the Kansas State University Marching Band.
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the October 2017 death of a confidential drug informant.
Steven Meredith was sentenced Monday for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the shooting death of 48-year-old Carrie Jones. Both were from Junction City.
Jones’ body was found by deer hunters in rural Riley County in October 2017.
Prosecutors contend Meredith shot Jones because he thought she would tell authorities that he was selling drugs.
Meredith pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge in July, days before his trial was set to begin. He initially was charged with first-degree murder.
Meredith testified Monday that he was present when Jones was shot but said he did not shoot her.
The Geary County Commission recognize employees for service milestones attained during 2019 at a ceremony on Sept. 30 beginning at 3 p.m.
Among the many employees that will be honored are Dale Evans, Public Works, 35 years; Diane Briestensky-Leonard, Register of Deeds, Wendy Easley, Attorney and Dennis Lilly, Public Works all for 25 years.
A total of 18 county employees will be honored during the ceremony.
By Dewey Terrill and David Gilbert
JC Post
There is a new Geary County Marine Unit that has been formed to provide life saving assistance on Milford Lake and other water ways. The members of that unit have just obtained dive certifications Jeff Freeborn of Flinthills Scuba, following training at Beaver Lake in Arkansas. The next step will be to continue the journey to become a Certified Public Safety Dive Team. They will make a return trip to Beaver Lake in two weeks, to obtain their Advanced Diver Certification.
The entire process was the idea of Geary County Sheriff Daniel Jackson when he took office. The county is home to Milford Lake, the largest man made lake in Kansas. He wanted to provide the Geary County community and those who visit Milford Lake with more readily available life saving measures, specially during the summer months and holidays when there are large increases of recreational boaters and boating activities.
From that idea the Geary County Marine Unit was formed through talks with members of the Sheriff’s Department and the Junction City Fire Department. Both Jackson and Junction City Fire Chief Terry Johnson sent out a request for interest in a joint dive team within their departments.
Deputies and firefighters submitted letters of interest to be a part of the dive team, and on July 31st and August 2nd, Jeff Freeborn conducted underwater testing of all applicants. Those test results, along with a swimming assessment conducted by Junction City firefighter Jason Lankas, who also holds lifeguard and swift water rescue swimmer certifications, were provided to Sheriff Jackson and Chief Johnson,. Using the results a dive team was selected, which is comprised of the following Geary County Deputies and Junction City Firefighters.
Team Leader: Lt. Thad Jones
Sgt. Shawn Weeks
Sgt. Kirt Nichols
Deputy James Regalado
Deputy Jason Everson
Deputy Clint Arnold
Fire Fighter Jason Lankas
Fire Fighter John Shepek
Fire Fighter Todd Bogenhagen
Fire Fighter Yeriela Bell
Fire Fighter Paul Rabek
The unit will be able to serve not only Geary County but other areas in Kansas when called to assist.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on an Army soldier from Fort Riley accused of sharing bomb-making instructions online and targeting left-leaning activists (all times local):
The presidential campaign of former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke says it is in direct contact with the FBI regarding the case of an Army soldier accused of sharing bomb-making instructions online and targeting left-leaning activists.
When an FBI undercover agent asked Jarrett William Smith if there was anyone in Texas who would be a good fit for “fire, destruction and death,” Smith reportedly replied, “Outside of Beto? I don’t know enough people that would be relevant enough to cause a change if they died.”
O’Rourke spokeswoman Aleigha Cavalier said in an emailed statement that they take any threat like this very seriously. The campaign says this isn’t about any one person or one campaign, and they “won’t let this scare us or cause us to back down in fighting for what’s right.”
The 24-year-old soldier was stationed at Fort Riley in Kansas.
The KAY organization at Junction City High School conducted a hat, glove and scarf drive at the Blue Jay – Topeka West football game last Friday night.
The goal was to gather the items to help JCHS students remain warm this winter. The items will be distributed to students this week.
( Photos courtesy of Javon George, JCHS )
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