Opinions

Years ago, in a promotional kit for the National Drovers Hall of Fame and its effort to restore downtown Ellsworth’s signature Insurance Building, we wrote — History is Our Future.That was true then; it’s still true today.

At the past two meetings of the USD 327 Board of Education [BOE], patrons raised complaints about a book, Perks of Being a Wallflower, used in a junior high classroom.

The Kansas Legislative session is underway for 2022.We reconvened on Jan. 10 and will continue our General Session through the first week of April.State revenues have been very strong and we start the year with the largest ending balance I have seen.

Assembling a government for the new Territory of Kansas was a monumental task following the adoption of the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854. A pro-slavery legislature was rejected by the abolitionist Free State citizens.In Leavenworth the election over the 1855 Topeka Constitution was disrupted.

Good morning, as many have heard, the district, over the last 9-10 months has been exploring the option of moving our 4th grade students from Ellsworth Elementary School to Kanopolis Middle School.

As one drives across Kansas it doesn’t take long to recognize the checkerboard organization of the state. That organization of property is essentially the same in other states but perhaps not so obvious as within the boundaries of the “Wheat State.

Social media has been full recently of the typical posts about what people are hoping to accomplish in 2022.

If we had to select two favorite books out of the thousands we’ve read over the years, our votes would go to “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Mockingbird for its content and Gatsby for its style.

Amid the hustle and bustle of this season, I have recently been reminded that, contrary to the temperatures outside, it is winter.

Prior to European settlement of this place called Kansas, native tribes were very aware of tribal locations and the boundaries that divided them. Those boundaries began to change as settlement from the east pressed against tribal territory in 1825.