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Republican and Democrat registered voters in Kansas were able to vote in the Kansas Presidential Primary election on Tuesday, March 19. Polls were open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The Eureka Girl Scouts are having their Seatbelt Safety Check on Wednesday, March 20 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the corner of 7th and Main Streets, with the assistance of Greenwood County Sheriff’s Deputies. If you’re wearing your seatbelt you will receive smarties. If not, you will receive a dum-dum and be asked to buckle up for safety.

New rodeo stars will be born during the wild and crazy Dairyland Donkey Basketball Show” at Hamilton Gymnasium on Sunday, March 24. The event is slated to begin at 4 p.m.

Home Opener For Tornado Baseball/Softball This Thursday

William Joseph “Bill” Colin of Eureka, died on Thursday, March 7, 2024, at Greenwood County Hospital, in Eureka, at the age of 77.

Richard Albert Maynard of Wichita, formally Garden City, went to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Monday, March 4, 2024. Richard was born on April 27,1961, to Nicholas Richard Maynard and Wanda May Stallings in Syracuse. Growing up in Eureka, spending his summers on the Finkenbinder Farmstead in Syracuse, with his siblings, uncles and cousins, are some of his fondest memories. Moving to Garden City in 1976, he attended and graduated from Garden City High School in 1979. While in Garden City, he met his beautiful wife, Tami. In 1980, he joined the US Army, where he proudly served in Indianapolis, Ind., Nurnberg, Germany, and Colorado Springs, Colo. He was honorably discharged in 1984 and left with a lifetime of memories and friendships.

William “Allen” Swisher, 92, of Piedmont, died March 6, 2024. He was born November 20, 1931, to Allen Russell and Anna (Schoneman) Swisher on the family farm, north of Piedmont. His mother was a nurse, who served as the community midwife. Allen was delivered by Dr. C.D. Baird, Eureka, who made house calls at that time. His father, born in Coffeyville, Kansas, was a miller, railroader and oilfield worker. Family lore placed him as the boy in the photograph looking through the wooden fence at the displayed corpses of the Dalton Gang after their botched raid on two banks in Coffeyville.

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