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Bushton Bash planned for Aug. 26

The Bushton Pride Committee will host the Bushton Bash, an event with something for all ages, Saturday, Aug. 26, at the Bushton Plaza (former middle school).

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FREEDOM OF PRESS

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. I first met him when I was a young reporter for the Salina Journal and stopped by his office in Marion to introduce myself.

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Local road trip ahead

Last week, I attended a standing-room-only meeting to hear more about the 2024 Big Kansas Road Trip.

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Enduring faithfulness

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., to an isolated location west of Ellsworth.

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Ellsworth adopts minimum housing code

There will now be a minimum housing code in Ellsworth.

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Commissioners meet with county department heads

At Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County commissioners, the county department heads gave updates on their activities.

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Kanopolis keeps budget flat

KANOPOLIS — The tax rate will remain flat for residents in the city of Kanopolis the city council decided during its Aug. 8 meeting.

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