City employees to get
3.3 percent salary
increase
BURLINGTON — City employees will receive a 3.3 percent
wage and salary increase, effective the first full pay period in April.
The Burlington City Council, on a 5-1 vote, approved the salary
increase and corresponding Resolution No. 2010-01 when the council met
Wednesday for its regular weekly meeting.
Council members Kent Hoyt, Bill Scott, Stan
Luke, Barb Hoch and Forrest Rhodes all voted for the 3.3 percent wage
increase, which is based on recent consumer price index figures from
the U.S. Department of Labor. Council member Chuck Coker opposed the
motion.
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Closing ceremony set for April 11
BURLINGTON — The Kansas National Guard will hold a closing
ceremony at the Ferguson Memorial Armory in Burlington at 2 p.m.
Sunday, April 11.
Burlington Mayor Rick Raymer announced the
ceremony Wednesday night during the Burlington City Council meeting.
The ceremony will be open to the public.
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Aliceville man dies in one-vehicle accident
BURLINGTON — Scott Joseph McCullough, 47, Aliceville, was
pronounced dead at the scene of a one-vehicle accident early Sunday
morning just east of Burlington.
At approximately 2:49 a.m., a passerby
reported to the Coffey County Sheriff’s Office that a vehicle was
sitting in a field east of Native Road, four-tenths mile south of 12th
Road, with its lights on. Sheriff’s officers were dispatched to
the area where they found McCullough deceased in his 1987 Chevrolet
Corvette. He was alone in the vehicle.
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