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ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

The staff at the Coronado Museum and Dorothy’s House is always looking for ways to enhance visitors’ experience, and next month will feature something particularly new.

The theatre troupe Live History will be making its way to the Coronado Museum and Dorothy’s House Saturday, Oct. 11, and they will be performing a show titled ‘In Time.’ The show is interactive, with multiple members of the troupe playing certain characters, and the show is also something visitors will be able to participate in. Session start times will be available every fifteen minutes from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and tickets are $8. As Coronado Museum Director Nathan Dowell tells it, the experience should be fun for all.

ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

Those looking for a new restaurant with a great atmosphere now have that option with Chilakilez and Cheers located at 7-8 Village Plaza.

As owners Isabel Trejo and Hugo Rosales tell it, the idea for the restaurant had been cooking for quite a while.

“In April of last year, we started doing the planning. We wanted to take our time and make sure everything was right, and we slowly started building everything up,” Rosales said. “We had the vision and just started slowly putting everything together, and it was the beginning of this year when we started putting in all the decorations and furniture and everything else.”

Old Farmer’s Almanac

Welcome, fall. The autumnal equinox — also called the September equinox or the fall equinox — arrives Monday.

Not only do temperatures drop, but plant life slows down, and so do people.

EARL WATT

   • Leader & Times

Seward County Commissioner Todd Stanton, along with Commissioner Steve Helm, voted no on exceeding revenue neutral rate and on increasing the mill levy by 13.4 mills Monday, but they were outvoted by Tammy Sutherland-Abbott, Scott Carr and Presephoni Fuller.

“I felt the budget process left much to be desired,” Stanton said. “There was not due consideration given to many issues.”

Stanton stated at the Revenue Neutral Rate hearing that Seward County only needed about $250,000 more to satisfy the  tax refund that may be needed depending on the ruling of a current court case on the potential overpayment of property tax by Arkalon Ethanol.