FFA GREENHOUSE OPENS
FFA GREENHOUSE OPENS
Blue skies and a crowd welcomed opening day at the Sugar Shack April 16.
Rounding out a victorious week, the Bearcat softball team took two wins against the Spearville High School Lancers April 19 at home. The first game ended 11-3, and the Cats won by run rule in the second, 13-3.
ARRIVING IN STYLE
HOLYROOD SPRING FLING
Blue skies and a crowd welcomed opening day at the Sugar Shack April 16.
The staff of the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter has collectively earned 31 awards in the 2024 Kansas Press Association Awards of Excellence contest. The staff was honored to receive 14 first place awards, 12 second place awards and five third place awards.
WILSON — A bit of fireworks at Monday night’s Wilson City Council meeting eventually led to an expulsion.
Residents young and old alike paused Monday afternoon to take in the partial solar eclipse.
Fireworks flew during Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth City Council before a motion to accept the original 3-year contract extension with City Administrator Dustin Stambaugh was approved.
KANOPOLIS — In a short meeting April 9, the consensus ‘no news is good news’ was discussed relating to the city’s proposed water tower project.
Longtime Homer, Alaska, resident Darlene L. Sheldon, 84, passed away Saturday, April 13, 2024, at South Peninsula Hospital, Homer.
Services will be held at the Homer American Legion with the time and date to be announced.
Wayne W. Schultz, 74, passed away Friday, April 19, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. He was born Aug. 11, 1949, in Ellsworth, Kan., to Alfred and Madonna (Lyne) Schultz. Wayne was a lifetime resident of the Ellsworth area where he was a farmer and rancher and previously owned and operated Schultz Hardware and Welding, Lorraine, Kan. He also served his country in the U.S. Navy.
Dolores Jacqueline “Peachie” Schmidt, Wilson, Kan., passed away Dec. 21, 2023, in Hays, Kan., at the age of 99.
A funeral service will be held Saturday, April 27, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Damar, Kan.
Online condolences and full obituary at www.plumeroverlease.com.
Becky Lenae Bailey, 58, passed away Thursday, April 11, 2024, at her home outside of Ellsworth, Kan. She was born Aug. 14, 1965, in Ellsworth to Jimmy Joe Morris and Karen (Rollet) Petty. Becky married John Bailey in Kanopolis, Kan., on July 14, 1985.
Rounding out a victorious week, the Bearcat softball team took two wins against the Spearville High School Lancers April 19 at home. The first game ended 11-3, and the Cats won by run rule in the second, 13-3.
STERLING — The Ellsworth Bearcat track team traveled to Sterling to compete April 19.
A few weeks ago at the Grow Ellsworth County Annual Meeting, Marci Penner was telling those gathered that the upcoming Big Kansas Road Trip is an opportunity for city folks to come experience rural life. She used the example that some people have never seen a cow before.
The early history of Kansas is filled with enough daring and intrigue to fill a goodsized library, and yet we know so little about those who rode the dark trails of destiny and the remarkable events that drew them to live extraordinary lives.
Photojournalism was my path into the newspaper world.
When the end-of-trail cattle towns are recalled, the names of Abilene and Dodge City lead the conversation. Newton, Ellsworth and Wichita were all busy cattle centers, but there were other cattle towns that are rarely recognized. The onslaught of settlement and a westward moving state ban against the open movement of Texas cattle had closed the Ellsworth market. Seventy-seven miles to the west Ellis was selected by the Kansas Pacific Railway to inherit the cattle trade in 1876.
