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KANOPOLIS — Tradition, good food and quality time with family and friends are what the annual Fiesta celebrated by the St. Ignatius Catholic Church is all about.This year’s festival is Saturday, Sept. 3, at the church in Kanopolis.

Twelve-year-old Josey Norris earned the nickname of “double header” during Boone and Crockett Club’s Jack Steele Parker Generation Next Youth Banquet.Her double header was not in baseball, however.

Special to the I-RThe Kanopolis City Council approved the city’s 2023 budget Monday during a special meeting at Kanopolis City Hall.City clerk Debbie Kralike said the budget increased from $874,083 in 2022 to $1,032,718 in 2023.

Karen Ruth Schultz Kohlmeier, 79, of Sabetha, died Aug. 15, 2022, at The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., after suffering a stroke. She was born on March 17, 1943, in Ellsworth, Kan., to Walter and Lilly (Kohls) Schultz. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m.

Annual festival celebrates Ellsworth’s heritage, honors newspaper at paradeMild temperatures ushered in Ellsworth Cowtown Days this weekend.Crowds gathered along Douglas Avenue to watch the annual parade, with the Reporter and the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter serving as grand marshal.

There was no public comment Monday, as Ellsworth County commissioners conducted public hearings for both the 2023 Revenue Neutral Rate and the 2023 budget.Approval was given to exceed the county’s Revenue Neutral Rate of 51.395 mills for 2023.

It will be the Cowtown that almost wasn’t.

It’s impossible to interview Dorothy Grothusen without learning something about the history of Ellsworth County.Grothusen, who grew up as Dorothy Neuschafer on a farm southwest of Ellsworth, celebrates her 100th birthday Dec. 1.

Garnell Hanson tells friends she retired four times — just don’t ask her when.For years, she worked for the Ellsworth Reporter, then the Ellsworth County Independent, then the Independent-Reporter and again for the I-R.

The Ellsworth Reporter — now the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter — has had a long and distinguished history of serving Ellsworth and Ellsworth County for the past 150 years.