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On Monday, March 11, Greenwood County Commissioners officially appointed staff member Shawna Griffitts as County Appraiser. Notification of appraiser change was approved for submission to the state and Resolution 24-02, appointing county appraiser, also received approval.

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.

Three Area wrestlers claimed hardware at the USAWKS 2024 State Folkstyle Championship over the weekend, as they finished in the top six of their weight class.

(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.

(not dismissed) for cases heard/paid between February 12-28, 2024

It has been an incredibly busy week at the Capitol, with 64 bills passing the House. We have officially passed the halfway point of the session and are moving quickly to consider the bills passed out of the Senate and our exempt bills. I want to keep you informed as to what’s happening at the Capitol, below, you will see some of what we have been working on.

Greenwood County Commissioners convened for a special meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 28, where final documents pertaining to acquisition of the former CareArc location (1602 N. Elm St., Eureka) were presented for signature and approval.