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Local teachers will have a little extra cash in their pockets this year, thanks to another successful year of teacher negotiations.
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In the opening days of the Civil War, the “Kansas Brigade” led by Col. James H. Lane burned and looted farms and towns in an effort to “clear out” southern sympathizers in the border counties east of Kansas.
Read moreCup holders — it all began a few days ago when I was unable to put my drive-thru dollar drinks in my cup holders. It was a fiasco witnessed by the drivethru attendant as she held my much needed drinks out the window patiently waiting for me to take them out of her hands and drive away.
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The Ellsworth Junior-Senior High School Bearcats football team ended their 2021 season Oct. 29 with a 42-0 shutout of the Syracuse Bulldogs in a nonconference game at Syracuse. Here, in a game earlier in the season, the Bearcats sophomore quarterback, Will Cravens, scrambles with the football.LORI FARMER/Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter
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The Central Plains Junior-Senior High School Lady Oilers Volleyball Team did not three-peat this past weekend as hoped, after winning the state championship the past two years.
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CALDWELL — It was a long ride back to Claflin for the Central Plains Junior- Senior High School Oilers football team Oct. 28, after they lost on the road 8-57 to the Caldwell Bluejays.
Read moreWILSON — Mayor Mike Peschka broke a 2-2 tie Monday, to deny a request by David Criswell, owner of Kansas Foods, LLC, for a waiver of the animal ordinance to keep no more than 20 (7 adult female and 13 juvenile) Nigerian dwarf goats at 720 26th Street on thewest edge of Wilson.
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