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There will be a Memorial Day service at 11 a.m. Monday, May 29 and the Green Lawn Cemetery in Schell City. Please join us and bring your lawn chairs.

VFW Post 257 will conduct a Memorial Day ceremony at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, May 29, in the El Dorado Springs City Cemetery.  The public and especially all veterans are encouraged to attend. This is an opportunity for our community to come together and show our pride and patriotism as well as our gratitude! Let

The El Dorado Springs Virginia Ryan Strain swimming pool will open Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Pool hours will be 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily.  Daily pool fee is $3. Remember, rafts, inner tubes and beach balls are not permitted at the pool. The first session of swimming lessons will be July 3-14 and the

Wayside Inn Museum 4th Annual Art Show and Sales, featuring original art and photography by the local artists from El Dorado Springs and surrounding areas coming. Artwork will be on display Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 1 – 4 p.m., and Sunday from 2 – 4 p.m. during the weeks of June 3 to June

This summer LCT will bring back to the community the production that launched the Lighthouse into orbit nearly a decade ago, with the reprise of their first production, “Lemonade!” They are inviting back to the Lighthouse stage the original cast and crew that started it all. The original cast was made up of 17 students,

During the Public Forum section of the El Dorado Springs City Council meeting on Monday, May 15, Marge Vance, Director of Economic Development for Cedar County, mentioned that dilapidated houses in town. She said that census statistics showed that 15 years ago, 66% of the houses in town were occupied by owners and in 2015

CHECK IT OUT – The El Dorado Springs Chamber of Commerce presented a check in the amount of $44,000 to the city for the second phase of the “Sidewallk to the Future” project. The $44,000 represents 1⁄2 of the 20% of the federal grant that pays for the project. The money donated came from the

At the Monday, May 15, Cedar County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees meeting, Josh Wilks, CPA, with the auditing firm of  CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, presented  and reviewed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 audit report, He stated that their were no problems  encountered during the audit and that CCMH has a strong balance sheet and has no

FAMILY CONNECTION – Juda Wosoba and her husband, Fred, were at the Vietnam Wall Saturday to honor her cousin, Harry Lee Powers, who was KIA Nov. 21, 1966. A machine gunner on a tank, he was awarded the Bronze Star (post humously) for exceptional valor. Harry Lee had lots of cousins – Juda and Charles

48 YEARS IN THE MAKING – On Saturday, May 13, 2017, the family of Derrill Price Jr. gathered to the Vietnam Wall to pay tribute to their husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. They found his name listed on Wall Panel 24W Line 98. Derrill III said that a friend had brought him a rubbing from