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Other than brief visits about our families at Kansas Press Association meetings, I didn’t know Joan Meyer well. Her husband, on the other hand, was a legend in the Kansas newspaper community.

Last week, I attended a standing-room-only meeting to hear more about the 2024 Big Kansas Road Trip.I confess, before Ellsworth County was announced as a destination, I’d never heard of the event. I was, however, familiar with its predecessor, the Kansas Sampler Festival.

In 1867 Ellsworth was the latest railroad boomtown as the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division, built the first railroad on the Kansas prairies. One thousand men were busy surveying, grading the roadbed and laying track on a line from Salina, Kan.

In the previous edition of “The Way West,” we visited dramatic days of framing of the Wyandotte Constitution, the document that serves today as the Constitution of the State of Kansas.

Concerns about Carneiro Township Dear Editor, I was invited to attend the Carneiro Township budget meeting this evening. It was a revelation.I never spoke, however, I did record the proceedings. It was a meeting to approve the budget. That did not happen.Mr.

The election is over. The votes are tallied. The effort to dissolve USD 112 did not pass. As expected, the vote was heavily split across county lines.Now, it’s time to move forward. Unfortunately, an election doesn’t mean the slate is wiped clean. Words were spoken, issues are still unresolved.

Editor/ PublisherWhile I was in Ellsworth County last summer, I didn’t have the pleasure of photographing wheat harvest.As I was learning the ropes of the newspaper, it didn’t phase me much — I had so much to learn (and I still do!).Yet, this summer, it was my turn to hit the harvest circuit.

While we have many readers who pick up their weekly newspaper at a rack or store around Ellsworth County, the bulk of our readers receive the paper by mail.Lately, the mail has been less punctual than usual. We apologize for the delay. This feels a little bit like deja vu.

Carneiro Cemetery needs deeds Dear Editor, I have found out that no deeds were created, never, none, zero, at Carneiro Cemetery.That stated, I want my two deeds. In order to help facilitate deed creation, I will help make out all deeds for those living with plots.

Tent camping in July in Kansas usually isn’t on my list of ways to spend a weekend, yet, I recently found myself slowly sinking into an air mattress with a clear view of the stars through a thin mesh canopy, which served as my only protection from the elements.