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My phone alerted me to a 4-year-old photo a few days ago, or rather, it alerted me to a photo taken four years ago of a newspaper clipping from decades ago. The clipping was a photo of a much younger version of me proudly standing next to a giant pumpkin I had grown in our garden.
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When Oren Arms Curtis passed away on March 28, 1898, the editor of the Topeka State Journal described him as “a born rover.” The notice of his passing on a farm six miles from Newkirk, Okla., noted that although nearing 69 years of age, he had been planning a wagon trip through Arkansas for the coming summer. Nevertheless, in his almost 69 years, Curtis led a uniquely interesting life.
Read moreMembers of the Ellsworth American Legion Post 174 meet at 7 p.m. at the post home in Ellsworth.
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The Ellsworth varsity boys’ tennis team competed on their home court April 4, taking second place at the tournament.
Read moreCLAFLIN — Parents of students in grades 7-12 in Wilson and Dorrance who, for the past many months, have been desperately searching for a path forward to educate their children, may now have a new glimmer of hope.
Read moreMembers of the USD 327 Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District Monday night looked ahead to the Nov. 7 general election and unanimously approved a resolution redrawing district position boundaries. The action, the result of the 2020 Census, equalizes population numbers.
Read moreEllsworth County commissioners learned a bit more about wind farms, payment- in-lieu-of-taxes and donation agreements Monday during a meeting with Ellsworth native Josh Svaty.
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