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Cancellations announced
The Hoisington community meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight (Monday) at the Activity Center has been postponed. Organizers will announce the rescheduled time at a later date.
Celebrating 150 years
Kindergarteners create
Ellinwood Grade School kindergarteners sit in front of a Kansas cake made out of construction paper.
EHS participates in forensics competition
ELLINWOOD - Members of the Ellinwood High School Forensics Team competed at the Smoky Valley High School Invitational on Jan. 29. Though EHS only entered a few students into the 20-team meet, each of Ellinwood's speakers placed in the top six.
Laws offer charity tax relief
The Individual Retirement Account Charitable Rollover, first enacted by Congress in 2006, expired in 2009. However, in the new tax bill signed by President Barack Obama, the IRA Charitable Rollover provision has been extended through 2011. This provision allows individuals 70 1/2 or older to make tax-free gifts of up to $100,000 to qualified charitable organizations, like Clara Barton Hospital Foundation, using funds transferred directly from their traditional IRAs or Roth IRAs. Beginning ...
EMS/HS band to hold dinner
ELLINWOOD - The Ellinwood Middle and High School Bands will be holding the annual Chicken Noodle Dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 6 in the Ellinwood High School Commons Area. Please note that this is a change of venue from past years. Tickets may be purchased from any middle or high school band member and will also be available at the door. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for children ages 3-10. Carry-out orders will be available.
Check It Out!
There are new books on CD at the Ellinwood Community/School Library. They are:
Plautz 65th
Roger and Wanda (Kitchen) Plautz will celebrate their 65th anniversary with a family dinner. Hosts for the dinner will be their nieces and nephews.
Holt - Kozlowski
Mack Holt of Loving, N.M. and Sandra Holt of Denver City, Texas announce the engagement of their daughter, Vickye Marie Holt, to William Christopher Kozlowski, son of Bruce and Stacie Kozlowski of Larned and Ruth Warren of Wichita.
Kaiser 95th
Joe Kaiser of Claflin will celebrate his 95th birthday on Feb. 6 with a card shower. Joe Kaiser was born on Feb. 6, 1916 in Claflin. He has lived his life in the Dubuque and Claflin areas. On Aug. 30, 1938 he married Regina Debes. She died on Dec. 13, 2005. He is a retired farmer and stockman. He has six children, Corrine Finger, Ronald and Lucille Kaiser, and Marilyn Ricke, all of Hoisington, Marvin ...
Brown - Richardson
Kelly and Rhonda Wheeler of Pawnee Rock announce the engagement of their daughter Ashley Brown to Michael Richardson, son of Michael and Laurie Richardson of Springfield, Mo. and Tim Whitten and Brenda of Tulsa, Okla.
‘Amanda’ would be so proud
Sheryl Urzedowski, 38, was cited for DUI in Orland Park, Ill., after failing a field sobriety test to walk a straight line.
More challenges face conservatives -- Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
The American Conservative Union (ACU) and the granddaddy of all conservative conferences, CPAC, are endangered.
But you gotta want to be healed -- Argus Hamilton
BEVERLY HILLS - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama in his State of the Union called for lower corporate taxes and a spending freeze and fiscal responsibility and no earmarks. He's certainly a changed man since the election. He sounds like he just spent 90 days at the Jerry Ford Center. Sen. David Udall convinced lawmakers to sit mixed together at the State of the Union. Everyone sat next to their opposite number. ...
No. 6 Kansas claims Game 1 of the Sunflower Showdown, 90-66
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Thomas Robinson, two days after his mother's funeral, shook off a slow start and had 17 points and nine rebounds Saturday to help lead No. 6 Kansas past Kansas State 90-66.
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