Former newspaper editor named new Kansas county magistrate
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August 21, 2019
KINGMAN, Kan. (AP) — A former Hutchinson News managing editor has been named as a new magistrate for a rural south-central Kansas county.
Ron Sylvester was appointed to fill the judicial vacancy in Kingman County by a nominating commission Monday. The News reports that Sylvester applied for the magistrate's position after his job at the newspaper was eliminated in late May.
The 60-year-old Sylvester previously worked at The Wichita Eagle and at newspapers in Las Vegas and Orange County, California.
State law does not require magistrates to be attorneys, but Sylvester must pass an exam within 1...
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