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Mayor Dan Finnegan opened Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth City Council by recognizing the Ellsworth High School Bearcat football team for their second place standing in the North Central Athletic Association and the team’s commitment to excellence, which resulted in an overall season record of 9 wins and 2 losses, resulting in an 81.8 percent win rate.
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Love, Wesley Dear Santa, How do you make the reindeer fly? I like the bow and arrow you brought me last year. Can you please bring me a trumpet and a watch?
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In this edition, you’ll see some beloved Christmas wishes from our county youngsters. I truly enjoy reading them. I always have a good laugh, or at least a chuckle.
Read moreIt’s been four months since the police raid on the Marion County Record, but new revelations are deepening our understanding of what may come to be regarded as a signal moment in the history of American journalism. The more we know about the newspaper raid, the more alarmed we should be, because the stench just keeps growing.
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Curly Marshall has found his way into The Way West more than once with his infamous approach to life. He had a habit of hanging out with the most notorious characters on the southern Kansas plains, some going as far as to say that he rode at the head of a gang of horse thieves. The Dec. 5, 1872, Ellsworth Reporter recalled that he had killed at least one man in Ellsworth’s wild end-oftrack days of 1867-1868.
Read moreRUSSELL — The boys’ basketball team took first place at the Amos Morris Classic Dec. 4-9 in Russell for the second year in a row.
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