Building moratorium lifted by city council
Baldwin The Baldwin City Council on Tuesday night voted to lift a moratorium that prevented development of new subdivisions.
The move came after council members gave final approval to a contract with Carrother's Construction to build a new wastewater treatment plant.
The moratorium was put in place because the city's current treatment plant was approaching its capacity and couldn't handle more growth.
Construction is set to begin on the new plant later this month or early February and should be complete by January 2003, City Administrator Larry Paine said.
Accident east of Ottawa send 4 people to hospital
Ottawa Four people were injured about 1:30 p.m. Monday in a three-vehicle accident on Kansas Highway 68 three miles east of Ottawa.
The accident occurred when a 1993 Chevrolet pickup driven by Brian Strickling, 16, Wellsville, stopped in the eastbound lane while waiting to turn left onto Nebraska Terrace, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.
A second car, driven by James Parkinson, 69, Iberia, Mo., attempted to steer south to avoid the pickup but hit the right rear of the truck, pushing it into the westbound lane where it hit the trailer of a 2000 International semi-tractor trailer driven by Steven Little, 41, Ottawa.
Strickling and his passenger, Connie Strickling, 41, were transported to Overland Park Regional Medical Center where they were in serious condition Tuesday, a hospital spokesman said.
Parkinson and his passenger, Jean Parkinson, no age given, were transported to Ransom Memorial Hospital, where they were treated and released, a hospital spokesman said.
Little was not injured.
Unsteady tractor-trailer leads to injury accident
A Kansas City, Kan., man was injured about 10 a.m. Tuesday when the semi-tractor trailer he was driving overturned on East 23rd Street just east of Harper Street, Lawrence Police said.
Robert Schnald, 34, was in good condition Tuesday afternoon at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he was taken by Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical, a spokeswoman said.
Schnald was driving a 2000 International eastbound on 23rd Street when the trailer it was pulling began to fishtail, Police Sgt. Mike Pattrick said. The trailer overturned, causing the cab to also overturn, Pattrick said.
Perry resident injured in Monday morning wreck
One person was injured in a two-vehicle accident at 9:35 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Lecompton Road and 17th Street east of Perry.
Maxine Hougland, 76, Perry, was driving a 1993 Ford Crown Victoria westbound on 17th Street when she did not stop at a stop sign and struck the front end of a car driven by James Maike, 40, Topeka, the Kansas Highway Patrol said. Maike, who was uninjured, was southbound on Lecompton Road.
Hougland was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital by Jefferson County Emergency Medical Service ambulance. She was released Tuesday morning from the hospital.
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