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Willadean Stutesman, 94, El Dorado Springs and Nevada, passed away Wednesday morning, Sept. 29. Willadean or “Granny” as she was known, was born Aug. 5, 1927. Services for Willadean were held Tuesday, Oct. 5, at the El Dorado Springs City Cemetery under direction of Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home. Online condolences may be left at www.blandhackleman.com.

by Dylan Rodgers, 9 and Mrs. Francis The Greenhand Conference is for new FFA members who are typically freshmen. This year, every new FFA student attended the conference, which has never happened before. Dillon Hargrove, 12 and Carolyn Huff, 12 are Area 9 officers, and they organized the conference for the greenhands. “We had to

TOPS Chapter 9319 El Dorado Springs met in the Bethel Free Will Baptist Church, 1300 S. Summer St, El Dorado Springs on Thursday, Sept. 30, for their weekly weigh-in and meeting. Linda Hall, Leader, called the meeting to order. Carol and Ray led us in singing “We’re the TOPS Club Members” We said our TOPS

by Allie Ashlock, 10 Mr. McCorkendale’s Chemistry 2 class did an advanced version of the lab the Biology 1 class will be doing next week. For this lab, they are building phones using cups and strings and they will try to determine which of several variables will produce the loudest phone. When we talk, our

Donald Culross Peattie is best known for his eloquent, informative and entertaining books about trees, A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America and A Natural History of Western Trees. The American botanist’s essays on the relations between trees and people over the course of American history are a must read. In

by Blane Shonfelt, 10 Beginning this school year the El Dorado Springs School District welcomed Deputy Garrett Lukenbill as our new School Resource Officer. The Canine Courier caught him for a minute and asked him a few questions. Q. Where did you grow up? A. I moved a lot, so I kind of grew up

by Ellie Schmidt The EHS volleyball team went up against Warsaw at home on Thursday, Sept. 23. The team was successful and won 3-0. The head coach Mrs. Rogers said, ”We all came out strong and dominated each game.” Out of the three matches played, Tevi Gurley, 12 and Macie Mays, 11 led the team

by Kaytlynn Moore, 12 & Alexis Moore, 11 On Saturday, Sept. 25, our cross country team split into two groups and went to two different locations. Our JV team, along with Kenli Rader (12), traveled to Hermitage while our varsity team traveled all the way to Lawrence, Kansas to the Rimrock course on Kansas University’s

Taberville Report By Bobby Dain Dains Fish Farm Fishing is good and catching is good. There’s not a whole lot of people fishing but they are catching a lot of fish. Baits are carp, bullheads, shad, bluegill and everything. How’s the size? I don’t really know the answer to that question. I know they are

ECS junior, Olivia Bryson placed 18th at the 13th annual Lamar XC Invitational on Tuesday evening, Sept. 28.  There were a total of 35 high schools that competed for the top 20 spots in the varsity girls division.   Olivia and her teammates have had a busy season; their next cross country meet will be