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WILSON — Matthew Fulkerson of Topeka has big plans for the 20 acres of property he owns east of Wilson.
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I-R Photo by ALAN RUSCH
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Lines of people are flocking to a new, family-friendly restaurant — Blended Roots Eats and Treats — which is now open at 215 West 15th Street in Ellsworth.
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The Ellsworth Junior-Senior High School FFA Chapter went to the National FFA Convention Oct. 27-29 in Indianapolis, Ind., seeking to be named the best FFA Chapter in the United States.
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Gracen Kasper, a first grade student at Ellsworth Elementary School, was the grand prize winner of the 2022 Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Keep Kansas Clean Calendar Contest. Two other Ellsworth County students; Berkley Kasper, a second grade student at EES; and Macie Ortiz, a ninth grade student at Wilson School, were also winners in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment 2022 Keep Kansas Clean Calendar Contest.
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Everyone agrees. We need to recruit more young people to our communities. They are the future entrepreneurs, volunteers, homeowners, school enrollments, and the desperately needed succession plans we need for our baby boomers who own 60 percent of the businesses in Kansas. We NEED them, but how do we attract them and keep them?
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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. Sixty-five miles east of Fort Scott, they reached Osceola, a town of 3,000 citizens, on Sept. 23, 1861. The town was put to the torch. An estimated 15 to 20 civilians were killed. Two hundred slaves were liberated, and a great amount of plunder was carried back to Kansas.
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