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Details are still being discussed but it appears the world’s biggest steam engine will be headed Ellsworth’s way later this year. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 is scheduled to leave Cheyenne, Wyo. April 5. A map of the Big Boy 2021 Tour has the 1.2-million-pound train going through Kansas on UP’s main line, which runs through Ellsworth. The above photo is from the engine was here in 2019. LINDA MOWERY-DENNING/Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter
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From the files of the September 5, 1985 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter.
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Just about every professional conference I’ve ever attended offered this bit of advice — explain your decisions as an editor-publisher to your readers so they understand how the newspaper is put together.
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We wish Dale Brungard well on his future endeavors. Thank you so much for what you have done for USD #327 and your community.
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Here is some helpful information on the COVID vaccine for children and teens.
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When Lt. John Love departed St. Louis with 80 raw recruits in mid-May, 1847, it was as an experienced officer with many years on the fringes of the American frontier. He had been with Capt. P. St. George Cook on June 30, 1843, when his First Dragoons captured Texian forces operating in American territory near present-day Larned, Kan. The arrest of Col. Jacob Snively and 107 troops became a celebrated event among the dragoons.
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