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The Eureka High School honor rolls have been reported for the second semester. Those making the honor rolls are listed below.

Eureka city residents are encouraged to attend a community meeting next Wednesday, June 19, at 6 p.m., at the Eureka Public Library where the topic of discussion will be the proposed continuation of the 1% sales tax.

(Editor’s Note: Office staff gathers weekly court news from the 13th District Public Access Portal. For more information on a case listed below or any case within the 13th Judicial District visit www.kscourts.org.

Drawn by memories, many of us made visits to cemeteries over the Memorial Day holiday.

Once again, Eureka’s VFW Post 2712 has organized events to help celebrate America’s Independence Day.

A War Time Experience, Reminiscences of Robert Hodge – Story 1of 10 Robert ‘Bob’ Hodge was born in 1929 in Lawrence and lived there until 1947. He then went on to graduate from Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia. After living in a number of states, he moved to Emporia in 1992. While living in Emporia, Hodge spent hundreds of hours researching and indexing newspapers in Lyon, Chase and Greenwood Counties. The Greenwood County Museum has all of Hodge’s indexes for most of the newspapers printed in Greenwood County up into the 1950s. Some of these newspapers started in the 1860s. Hodge was an honorary board member for many years with the Greenwood County Historical Society. This series of ten articles written by Hodge is mainly, but not totally, about his life in Lawrence.

Two southeast weekly newspapers received special awards last Friday, June 7, during the Kansas Press Association’s (KPA) Awards of Excellence (AOE) Celebration.

This June marks the eightieth anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, widely-referred to as D-Day, during World War II. On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history and marked the culmination of planning that began in 1943. D-Day is often characterized as a success that led to the liberation of Europe from the stranglehold of the Nazis, and rightfully so. But the Allied forces paid a heavy price for the victory, as more than 9,000 soldiers lost their lives within the first 24 hours of the landings.

The East Central Kansas Model T Ford Club (ECKMT) meets the second Thursday of the month. The ECKMTs will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, in the conference room of the Burlington Library. The library is located on Highway 75 in Burlington. Members are asked to bring their own entree/sandwich and a side dish or dessert to share with the meal, which will be eaten before the meeting.