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I’ve had the opportunity to observe some of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee hearings the last couple of weeks.

The USD 327 Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo school district board of education voted to support the City of Ellsworth in its proposed Redevelopment TIF District. That decision came at the regular school board meeting Dec. 9 at the district office.

Quote is incomplete To the Editor, Mark Kennedy’s quote printed at the top of the paper’s December 5, 2019 front page article is woefully incomplete. He forgot that the reasons he stated are exactly why public officials, including the city council, need to earn the public’s trust.

The Way West By mid-October 1868, Gen. Philip Sheridan’s plan for an unconventional winter campaign against the Cheyenne and affiliated tribes was complete. Sheridan reasoned that a winter attack in Indian Territory would deliver a devastating blow from which the enemy could not recover.

“Make America Great Again” was not original with this administration. President Reagan used it in his 1979 campaign. And it resonated with many Americans then. A sense that America is no longer as great as it used to be began with conditions emerging in the 1960s. And the chant “U.S.A.

Several years ago, the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter staged an annual retail promotion that ended the Saturday before Christmas with drawings for $1,000 in cash. With the help of several businesses — See Page A10 for participating sponsors — we decided to revive the popular event.

The Way West The rush was on with the opening of Kansas Territory in 1854. The Kansas River was a natural thoroughfare leading to the west. Its wide valley and deep, fertile soil attracted a good deal of the first settlement in the territory. Indianola, K. T.

Others Say As 2019 nears an end and we say goodbye to a decade, 2020 affords us an opportunity as a U.S. citizen to make a difference to our state and to our local community through the 2020 census. The U.S.

Some of our best memories of growing up was taking the passenger train from Fort Wayne, Ind.to Chicago to shop for Christmas. It was something my friends and I looked forward to yearly. Thoughts of those trips came back this past week as Big Boy No.

In order to get the I-R to our printer on time, we prepared two front pages for the Nov. 21 edition.