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Carl Hoelscher, Bushton, will celebrate his 95th birthday July 21.
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Congratulations to Jerry and Sandi Shirley who are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on July 24th.
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Is there anything quite as good in the summer as a sweet strawberry? Or a rich, hearty vegetable stew in the winter?
Read moreBack in the day, we partnered each year with a photographer to explore an issue of special importance to rural Kansas. One time it was water. Another time we tracked the history and changing landscape along Old U.S. 40.
Read moreEach week, the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter sets aside space on Page A1 to give our readers the most recent information on COVID-19. It’s something we’ve done since the pandemic started more than a year ago
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‘What do you do in economic development?’ is by far the top asked question I hear as I navigate my fourth year as director of Ellsworth County Economic Development. Sometimes that question is asked directly, and other times it’s an unspoken wondering in the community, so when I was asked to write an editorial for the Progress Edition, I was eager to have an opportunity to explain what economic development does.
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After war broke out between the North and South in April of 1861, John Arrell Johnson enlisted on July 21, 1861, as a private in the 4th Kansas Infantry, Company E.
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