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‘What do you do in economic development?’ is by far the top asked question I hear as I navigate my fourth year as director of Ellsworth County Economic Development. Sometimes that question is asked directly, and other times it’s an unspoken wondering in the community, so when I was asked to write an editorial for the Progress Edition, I was eager to have an opportunity to explain what economic development does.
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After war broke out between the North and South in April of 1861, John Arrell Johnson enlisted on July 21, 1861, as a private in the 4th Kansas Infantry, Company E.
Read moreMr. Don Siemsen made several points in last week’s Independent Reporter that I wanted to take issue with. I settled on one: “Where are the black leaders who should be encouraging black people to just follow the instructions of the law enforcement officer.”
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1871 dawned on new aspirations for settlement along the great Chisholm cattle trail.
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Alfred Obiero felt trapped long before he was incarcerated. He said he was on the streets in Tulsa, Okla., working a dead-end entry-level job at a bus shop. He was denied entry into a welding program because he did not have a high school diploma and was feeling hopeless.
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There are names from days of Territorial Kansas that every Kansan should know. They were our heroes. The men that fought to make Kansas a Free State. Among the dozens, perhaps hundreds that should be remembered, many who have graced the pages of The Way West.
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When Lt. John Love departed St. Louis with 80 raw recruits in mid-May, 1847, it was as an experienced officer with many years on the fringes of the American frontier. He had been with Capt. P. St. George Cook on June 30, 1843, when his First Dragoons captured Texian forces operating in American territory near present-day Larned, Kan. The arrest of Col. Jacob Snively and 107 troops became a celebrated event among the dragoons.
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