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Finney County Commission to hear budget requests Monday Garden City Telegram Organizations from outside the county government will present budget requests for 2022 to the Finney County Commission on Monday.  Many of the organizations present budget requests to the County Commission annually.  Robert Reece, Finney County Administrator, said the county is required by statutes to fund many of the organizations as they provide services they are required to fund within the county-wide community, b...

Finney County ahead of state average on first doses The Finney County Health Departments COVID-19 vaccination site will be moved back from the Mass Vaccination Clinic at the Finney County Fairgrounds to the Health Department in the coming weeks. Colleen Drees, Finney County Health Department director, gave an update on the status of COVID-19 vaccinations at the Finney County Commissions regular meeting Monday. As of Monday morning, the Health Department has given 15,130 COVID-19 vaccines have ...

Garden City Telegram The expansion of the current .25% County General Purpose sales tax will be on the Aug. 3 ballot.  The Finney County Commission approved a resolution to include a question of whether or not voters approve of extending the .25% sales tax at the Commissions regular meeting Monday.  The sales tax began in 1997 and has been extended several times since, most recently in 2014.  The Commission previously discussed the extension at their March 15 meeting. Robert Reece, Finney C...

A family exchange was thrust into public view Saturday when Kirk Franklin's estranged son published audio of the gospel legend berating him in a profanity-laden phone call.

“I will break your neck," Kirk Franklin is heard telling his adult son. "Don’t you ever disrespect me.”

HHR program nearing its end The Finney County Commission discussed the program at its regular meeting Monday. Funded by a SPARK grant, the program was relaunched for a second run at the commissions regular meeting Feb. 1. The program is an extension of one the county had in 2020 for an 11-to 12-week period and helped more than 130 households. In a previous Garden City Telegram interview, Robert Reece, Finney County administrator, said the HHR program is designed to assist families and/or indiv...

Garden City Telegram Teaching remotely is difficult, especially with only a small computer screen of about 13 inches to both see students and share learning materials. Ember Dortch, a computer studies teacher at Garden City High School, said she didnt realize how much difference a second computer screen could make until she got one. "I had to have Zoom open in one window and then my attendance in another window and I had to view several different things and they were really tiny, and my eyes ar...