Scenes from the 2024 Big Kansas Road Trip
Scenes from the 2024 Big Kansas Road Trip
CELEBRATING MAY DAY
UP IN FLAMES
Ellsworth Steakhouse torn down in April
FFA GREENHOUSE OPENS
Nine Model A Fords caravanned north on Highway 14 Friday morning. Traffic, including a semi loaded with hay bales, slowed to match the group’s cruising speed of 45 mph The group departed from cattle branding at the Bar J Ranch, with Mushroom State Park as their next destination on the Big Kansas Road Trip.
Legionfest 2024 started off a little chilly and windy, but by the end of the day, the sun had warmed up and Darth Vader showed up with a few other friends from Star Wars to make for a successful event.
At Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County Comissioners, discussion took place with the county’s department heads and elected officials on county employees’ email security.
LAWRENCE — Ellsworth senior Peyton Coonrod took first place in advertising design at the Kansas Scholastic Press Association State Journalism Contest May 4 at the University of Kansas.
Eleanor G. Bach, 94, passed away Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in Manhattan, Kan. She was born, the youngest of nine children, June 2, 1929, in Ellsworth, Kan., to W.E. and Grace (Allen) Sheridan, who were raised in the Dust Bowl days of Kansas.
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.
The Ellsworth Bearcat baseball team played Little River High School April 26 at home, defeating the Redskins 11-1 and 21-0.
Resting after Big Kansas Road Trip
The scene that confronted Maj. Thomas I. McKenny the evening of June 9, 1864, was heightened by the eerie silence of desolation. Burned out log shelters and looted dugout dwellings told a story of failure.
Council members should keep language clean
Capt. Jack Harvey is not well known today, but in the late 1860s, his every move was followed by the general public. He and Wild Bill Hickok had cut their teeth on death and daring in Missouri and Arkansas during the Civil War.
