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N.E. Okla. & S.E. Kan.

Business owners divided on plan to raise sales tax
At Beitzinger Hardware, 722 N. Broadway, the tax increase that some legislators want for Kansas is a hard sell right now.
“This country is still in a recession. Even though some people think it is out, it’s not,” said John Beitzinger, owner.

May 10, 2010 1 Photo
Pittsburg troupe presents ‘The Glass Menagerie’
It’s performed by one of the smallest casts in recent Pittsburg Community Theatre history, but “The Glass Menagerie” will be no less impactful, says Director Linden Little.

February 3, 2012
Masonite to add 65 new jobs in Pittsburg
The company moved its glass insert line from Toronto, Canada in 2008. In 2011, the company completed purchase of the 310,000-square-foot property at 603 E. Jefferson St. from the city. Masonite currently employs 135 in Pittsburg.

February 3, 2012
Ortho Four States provides plans for medical office building in Galena
Representatives with Orthopaedic Specialists of the Four States today presented plans for a $5 million, 30,000-square-foot medical office building to piggyback on its $13.5 million specialty hospital, already under construction.

January 9, 2012
200 jobs to be lost with salad plant's closing
The Orval Kent Food Co. food processing plant will close at the end of January, leaving 200 permanent and temporary employees without a job, said Kent Kring, an Orval Kent Vice President.

December 8, 2011
Fireworks business interested in Superior’s vacated plant
The Pittsburg City Commission and the Economic Development Advisory Committee will hold special meetings Wednesday to consider a forgivable loan application by Jake’s Fireworks, a locally-owned pyrotechnics distribution company, for $300,000.

November 15, 2011
Columbus factory dismisses employees, with more to come
Around 70 of RSI Home Products Manufacturing Inc.’s 110 employees were dismissed Friday, with the remaining 40 to be let go by the end of September.

July 25, 2011
Tip leads to arrest of bank robbery suspects
A Webb City Parks Department employee is credited with reporting suspicious activity that eventually led to the arrest of two men suspected of robbing a Weir bank.

July 22, 2011
Announcement to be made about unsolved murder
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and Delaware County district attorney’s office are reporting the pending arrest of a suspect in the disappearance and presumed murder 15 years ago of Barbara Ann Willard.

May 31, 2011
Initial autopsy finds no cause in girl’s death
The state medical examiner has yet to determine the cause of death for a 9-year-old girl who collapsed last week during recess on a school playground in Wyandotte.

August 24, 2010
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