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Resident proposes 'Freedom Rock' at courthouse corner; commissioners ask for design review
Summary
A Chanute-area resident asked the Neosho County commissioners for permission to site and paint a patriotic 'Freedom Rock' on county property adjacent to the courthouse; commissioners said they would review a proposed design and consider a land-use agreement.
Steve Ritchie, identifying himself as a local resident, asked the Neosho County Board of Commissioners on May 20 to allow a painted “Freedom Rock” on county property north of the county memorial at the courthouse.
Ritchie described the project as modeled on a decorated boulder near Des Moines, Iowa, that is repainted annually. “We'd like to do the same thing here in Erie,” he said, adding that Kansas currently has no Freedom Rock and that the…
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