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EUREKA – Governor Laura Kelly announced that Eureka has been awarded $140,000 in federal funding in the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program. The funds will be used to help improve safety and prevent deaths and serious injuries on local roadways.

Eureka Main Street, along with Travel and Tourism, is sponsoring a business/ building Christmas decorating contest in the coming weeks. Businesses/ buildings on Main Street will compete against one another while businesses/ buildings on River Street will compete against each other. Those wishing to participate must sign up at the City Clerk’s Office by this Friday, December 1.

This Saturday, December 2, the Fancy Mustangs 4-H Club will host their second annual Christmas Dinner at Memorial Hall, in Eureka. The public is invited to join in the Christmas spirit by joining the club for a meal (including steak, green beans and a potato) with live music to follow. There is a fee to attend this event. For more information contact your favorite Fancy Mustang 4-H club member.

The Road and Bridge report was given by Superintendent John Schouten during the November 27 Greenwood County Commission meeting. Schouten reported that he was looking to scrap materials at the landfill at a rate of $125 per ton. The company will come locally at this dollar figure. Commissioners voted to proceed. Schouten shared that crew members were working on 90th Street and K Road to improve conditions and were also continuing snow removal efforts. He noted that over the weekend, asphalt county roads had been addressed.

Mayor Richard Clark called the November 6 Howard City Council meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. with council members Martin Hunter, Erica Cordell, Derek Cookson, Gary Harrod and Jerrad Pope present. Also present were Debbie Roebuck, Susan Galvan and Clerk Joanna Hunter.

The American Legion Post 124-Madison held a fundraiser for a chancedrawing pistol recently with hopes of raising funds for the Veterans Memorial in Madison.

Our first measurable snow arrived late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Punky went down the ramp, stepped off the end where I had cleared the snow, done her thing then started to walk around.

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The Susannah French Putney Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held their monthly meeting at the Energy Education Center behind the Butler County Historical Society in El Dorado, at 12:15 p.m. in the afternoon of November 17.