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Editor’s Note — This is the second editor-publisher Marquette has in the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame, an honor roll of journalists who have made outstanding contributions to their profession. The first was Kenneth Baird “Bud” Bruce, who was born in 1914 in Marquette to a newspaper family.

This weather makes it officially summer! And summer means grilling — specifically grilling meat. So, let’s talk food safety as it relates to those grilled favorites. The doneness of your meat should never be based on color.

More than 50 million Americans live with chronic pain, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. Many of those living with chronic pain rely on opioid pain medications, which can be habit forming.

Ellsworth County Medical Center’s Wound Clinic may have just opened this past year, but a positive has already prompted administrators to expand its availability. A wound care clinic specializes in treating wounds that do not heal. CEO Andrew Bair says ECMC saw a need for a local facility.

KANOPOLIS — An inquiry about vacating a street was heard at the June 9 meeting of the Kanopolis City Council.

With a passion for rural health care and putting people first, Ellsworth County Medical Center CEO Andrew Bair has helped ECMC uphold its commitment to improving lives since he took the helm a little more than a year ago.

Ellsworth Junior-Senior High School senior Jordyn Coonrod is the 2020 recipient of the Smoky Hill Chapter of the Daughter’s of the American Revolution Good Citizen scholarship. Coonrod is the daughter of Eric and Stephanie Coonrod.

Ellsworth High School’s Brenna Pruitt signs with Southeast Community College in Beatrice, Neb. to play softball next year. Her plans are to transfer after two years and study speech and language pathology at the university of Kansas. Pruitt is shown with her parents and coach Kenny Cravens.

Sitting in the choppy waters of the English Channel the day before D-Day, 20-year-old Private James R. Lambeth wondered what would happen on the beaches of Normandy. “We had no idea what we were getting into,” recalled Lambeth, a retired Illinois farmer.

The Ellsworth County District Court has a new clerk. Kristy Vattershell of Lyons introduced herself at Monday’s meeting of the county commissioners. Vattershell succeeds longtime clerk Peggy Svaty, who resigned recently to run for county magistrate judge.