Opinions

When spring is in full swing, the air is always full of excitement for our students, staff and community. I love seeing everyone in our schools packing in all the learning, growth and fun this time of year. It really is a special time!

Drury J. Warren moved his family from Arkansas to Grouse Creek south of Silverdale, Kan., in 1875. He was born in Tennessee and defended the Confederacy as 2nd Sgt. in Company H, 30th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. After the fall of Fort Donelson, Tenn.

Ellsworth residents are being asked to voluntarily reduce water use as part of the water watch the Ellsworth City Council declared during its April 10 meeting.“It’s voluntary conservation measures,” City Administrator Dustin Stambaugh said.

Raising awareness of child abuse during AprilDear Editor: Every April, we raise awareness about child abuse prevention, however, this work is ongoing and constant.

The countdown carries over as we also prepare to get the machines in the fields to begin spring planting.Spring has sprung on our central Kansas farm. The daffodils and apricot trees are in full bloom and being visited by the honeybees.

I get a little of my penchant for story-telling from my father, Bruce Cody Gray Jr. Riding over the countryside in the pickup, his thoughts would turn to earlier times, and, well, I was a captive audience.He talked of family, friends and a few not-sofriendly.

Last week’s editorial asked a simple question: Are there safety measures that can improve the intersection of Highways 156 and 140? This question was the result of a recent fatal accident.

We give heartfelt thanks to all the Ellsworth, Rice and Lincoln County firemen and other volunteers who fought the prairie fire south of Ellsworth on Tuesday, April 4.

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.

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.