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Not every business makes it to 70 years of existence but in 2025, local jewelry favorite Staats Jewelers has reached just that milestone.
As current owner Brent Staats tells it, however, the business’s journey began long before he was born.
The U.S. has had 46 presidents during its nearly 250-year history, and Monday is a day to commemorate them with Presidents Day.
According to History.com, Presidents Day originally honored only the country’s first president, George Washington.
Former Perryton, Texas, ISD athletic director and football coach Cole Underwood was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk sentenced Underwood Tuesday morning, five months after he pleaded guilty to “enticement and attempted enticement of a minor.”
Underwood admitted having sex at least 10 times with a 15-year-old girl in his school office.
The annual Pancake Day festivities are mere weeks away, and Liberal’s sister city, Olney, England, is currently making its own preparations for the day.
As Olney Pancake Day Committee member Ruth Martin tells it, planning across the pond has been going on for multiple months already.
After turning down an increase in the county’s mill levy for Fiscal Year 2025 and continually hearing from constituents of the need to improve roads, Seward County officials were left looking for ways to help with that need financially.
With that in mind, county commissioners approved the sale of $6.1 million in bonds, and now, they will likely be looking to taxpayers to approve a half-cent sales tax to help fund road repairs.
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