EHS Inaugural Cornhole Tournament

You’re invited to grab a partner and compete in the first EHS Baseball Cornhole tournament at 9:30 a.m. on the HS football practice field on Saturday, Feb. 23. (Upper gym in case of bad weather. Cost – doubles – $40 per team ($20 per player). Registration and money due by Feb. 20. Official ACO rules

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The Rock Wall

I guessed wrong. I told you that I thought Keilan Jacques pinned his 192 lb. Diamond opponent in 15 seconds a week ago Thursday on the home mat. I had trouble opening Coach Travis Payne’s e-mail so I was flying blind. Well, this week the coach sent me his report in MS Word. I had

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Pretty… destructive

ELECTRIC CREWS REPAIR ICE DAMAGE  – Electric crews for the City of El Dorado Springs and Sac Osage Electric Cooperative are the first responders of the electric world. Wednesday night and Thursday morning they had to brave freezing rain to restore service to nearly 2,500 homes that lost electricity and heat when ice dropped power

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Shopko liquidation to start Friday

The El Dorado Springs Shopko store located at Hwys 32 and 54 will begin liquidating its inventory on Friday, Feb. 15. Doug Cage, the local supervisor, said that the liquidation is an “everything must go” situation and the actual closing of the store might take place before the stated closing date of May 12. Cage

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1,000 lines down in El Dorado

Tom Cain, El Dorado Springs Utility Director “We really don’t know how many there were.” “The ice pulled service lines pulled off of houses and also shorted out some main lines. A little bit of a mixture of everything. A couple of poles broken off.” “We were called out about 9 o’clock Wednesday night.” Q.

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Sac Osage had over 1,000 lines down

Jim Davis, Sac Osage Electric general manager Q. I’m calling to find out how much damage the ice storm did for Sac Osage Electric customers. “In a 24 hour time period, we had 1,229 off, not all at the same time. The most off at any one time was 600. The longest anyone was off

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‘Home’ A place for Dad

Home…Sometimes it’s a different place than what you had in mind. Bobbie E. Roberts has seen a lot of things in his 93 years. Most people who have lived that long have seen a lot; but his story, especially in the last few years, tells of how a “hometown” hospital and those people in it

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BBB Advice on Applying for Scholarships

By now, many high school seniors have finished their college applications and are waiting for results. That means it’s time to start thinking about how a family or individual is going to pay for it. Some financial aid is awarded based on need, while other scholarships may be based on merit, a special skill or

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Valentine square dance Friday night

On Friday, Feb. 15, the Mo-Kan Square Dancers will hold their Valentine Dance with Kenton Sullivan calling. This will be held from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the Home Ec Building at the Vernon County Fairgrounds, Nevada. Admission is $5 for adult dancers and $3 for youth dancers. All dancers and interested persons are welcome.

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Hospital Board to meet

The Board of Directors of Cedar County Memorial Hospital will begin a meeting at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 18, in the classroom at Cedar County Memorial Hospital. The tentative agenda of this meeting includes the usual reports.

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