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Ellsworth County Commissioners meet at 9 a.m. at the courthouse meeting room. Info: (785) 472-4161
Read moreThe Kanopolis Recreation Commission hosts its annual Easter egg hunt at 1 p.m. at Kanopolis City Park.
Read moreThe Ellsworth County Community Easter Egg Hunt hosted by the Caring Families Foundation takes place at the Ellsworth Recreation Department’s T-ball diamonds. A free will donation hot dog feed will be served at 1 p.m.
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Ellsworth discusses needs for housing, options for possible development
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I was fortunate enough to be asked to write a series of articles on volunteerism in our community. The first one was “The Benefits of Volunteerism,” which outlined some of the advantages of choosing to volunteer. The second article, “Where Have All of the Good Volunteers Gone?”, discussed reasons why volunteerism has recently declined. This third piece will simply lay out three volunteer leadership opportunities that exist in our community. Hopefully, a few volunteers will step forward to help.
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One of the most enduring images of the Old West is that of a great herd of Texas Longhorn cattle snaking its way north over the dusty Chisholm Trail to railroad stockyards at the end of the trail. Hundreds of thousands of cattle walked their way into oblivion, herded by leather-skinned, trailhardened cowboys whose names have been forgotten to all but a few disciples of trail history.
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U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) visited the Ellsworth County Sheriff ’s Office Friday afternoon with good news in hand.
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