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The month of March has been home to many historical events over the years. Here’s a look at some that helped to shape the world in March 1924.

COTTONWOOD FALLS - Tickets are on sale now for the 2024 Symphony in the Flint Hills Signature Event that will take place on Saturday, June 8, at Red Ranch in Greenwood County. Tickets can be purchased online at symphonyintheflinthills. org or by calling 620-273-8955.

I don’t know about you, but there is something that feels great about getting a little dirt on your hands! Just watching those plants grow and providing you some delicious veggies to eat, or flowers to decorate the kitchen table with, is a wholesome feeling. Gardening provides a variety of wellness benefits for all ages, and keeping your garden safe helps increase its usability.

The Eureka Junior/Se - nior High School (EJSHS) Early Childhood Founda - tions and Human Develop - ment classes will be hold - ing their annual preschool for children ages 3-5 years old. This program will be starting March 26 and run through May 2, on Tues - days and Thursdays, from

Mayor Richard Clark called the Feb. 20 Howard City Council meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. with council members Martin Hunter, Shilo Crupper, Derek Cookson, Gary Harrod and Jerrad Pope present. Also present was City Gas Superintendent Clay Hunter, Shari Kaminska and Clerk Joanna Hunter.

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To kick-off the March Eureka USD 389 Board of Education meeting, the board, administration, and guests gathered at Marshall Elementary School in Eureka, where the Marshall Student Lighthouse Team provided a tour of the facility. The Student Lighthouse Team is one element of the Leader In Me program; in which 4th – 6th grade students apply and interview to serve and represent the student body. The Student Lighthouse Team Members meet regularly to share their leadership and work to improve the school. While providing the tour, students shared about Tornado Clubs (comprised of students in thirdsixth grades and faculty/ staff) and Tornado Families (comprised of students in pre-Kindergarten-second grade and faculty/staff). Both of these groups are new to Marshall Elementary with the purpose to share/ teach leadership, practice using habit language and apply social-emotional skills in a real-world “job/career/ project-based environment.” New banners for the clubs and families now hang in the commons area of Marshall Elementary School. Also, throughout the tour of the school, the group toured through classrooms and discussed student leadership notebooks, leadership roles, students’ displays of work, Wildly Important Goals for the school/classes/individual; as well as various schoolwide celebrations including the Tornado Ticket Student prizes and the Kindness Award.

A Severy family lost their home and all their household belongings during an early morning fire at 106 N. Severy Ave., on Saturday, March 9. Thankfully, Greenwood County Undersheriff Jason Myers was in Severy for an unrelated call and smelled smoke and located the blaze. Undersheriff Myers quickly made contact with an adopted grandson, Tom Pugh, who was not in the house but staying elsewhere on the property. When Myers arrived to the scene, the fire was burning up the exteri-or wall. Within three minutes, Tony Bahr and Joy Brown, along with their four dogs, were out of the structure. At that time, flames were coming into the east bedroom, where the couple was.