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History of Hook Lighthouse
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I hope everyone had a good St. Patrick’s weekend, although it was more than a little chilly. Checking the weather in Ireland where our friends live, I found their temperatures this week are just about the same as ours. I promised that this week I would follow up what I started last week with a story and information about the Historic Hook Lighthouse in Ireland.
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3/21/23
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Cherokee schools named winner after zig-zag basketball game against Pittsburg
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Compiled by Phil Burgert / [email protected]
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3/21/23
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Car salesman with a bullet wound to the head was charged with first-degree murder
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Compiled by Phil Burgert / [email protected]
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3/18/23
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Pittsburg, Frontenac eliminated in first round of state high school basketball tournament 100 years ago
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Compiled by Phil Burgert / [email protected]
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3/17/23
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Cane poles, trot lines, snapping turtles and seines
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As spring returns to SE Kansas, this excerpt from “Frogdancer,” Arma native Frank Jeler Jr.’s memoir, brings warm memories of seining for bait and fishing strip pits, ponds, and rivers with dad and grandpa. — J.T.K
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By J.T. Knoll / [email protected]
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3/16/23
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Another robbery hit the Degen clothing store, $1,500 worth of merchandise taken
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Compiled by Phil Burgert / [email protected]
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3/16/23
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Singer Amelita Galli-Curci visited Pittsburg for Carney Hall performance
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3/15/23
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Reading of the Green
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It’s that time of year when everyone’s Irish, if not genetically than certainly in spirit. Since the Emerald Isle has a rich literary history — think James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney — there’s no scarcity of Irish reading material to be found. If you’re like me, you may look for less lofty reading; not to worry since there are plenty of mainstream books written about Ireland and its inhabitants.
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By Carol Ann Robb / Pittsburg Public Library
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3/15/23
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St. Patrick’s Day
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St. Patrick’s Day is a special day for the Irish and so many others. Once treated like the scum of the earth when the Irish immigrants arrived on American shores, they withstood the poor jobs, housing and much more and every year celebrated their Irish heritage being the strong, determined people that they were.
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By Lois Carlson / [email protected]
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3/14/23
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Southeast High School robbed, loss amounted to $930
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Compiled by Phil Burgert / [email protected]
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3/14/23
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Ku Klux Klan members visited a church in Mineral to gift $25
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3/11/23
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85 gallons of whiskey, operational still seized from Angelo Williams’ home
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Compiled by Phil Burgert / [email protected]
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3/10/23
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Quaint customs in Pittsburg in the 1950s and 60s
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Here’s a recollection by 1964 PHS graduate Nancy Keller Kincaid that, for me, brought both joy and heartbreak. Experiencing Pittsburg, on both the whole length of Broadway and the downtown side streets, was really something back before the mall, big box stores and Amazon arrived.
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J.T. Knoll / [email protected]
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3/9/23
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A tornado ripped the roof off St. Patrick’s school in Walnut
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3/9/23
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The rainbow’s end
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Irish legend has it that there’s a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow. If that’s so, then I would expect to find a rainbow ending at 308 N. Walnut every day — because there’s no greater treasure than a library full of books. Here are some of the latest pieces of gold we recently added to the collection.
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By Carol Ann Robb / Pittsburg Public Library
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3/8/23
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A warrant was issued for the arrest of a pool hall operator who let boys under 18 play pool without a permit
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Compiled by Phil Burgert / [email protected]
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3/8/23
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School basketball games: Then and now
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For the past several weeks I have been listening to high school and college basketball results and have even attended a few games on each level. As I watch the athletes, cheerleaders and the crowd at high school and college games, I think about how things have changed over the years.
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By Lois Carlson / Morning Sun Columnist
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3/7/23
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R. W. Williams was arrested after three quarts of whiskey were found in his suitcase
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Compiled by Phil Burgert / [email protected]
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3/7/23
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J. D. Wentz told to ‘stick em’ up,’ robbed at gunpoint of $1
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Compiled by Phil Burgert / [email protected]
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3/4/23
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100 years ago, a contract was let for the paving of McKay Street in Frontenac
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Compiled by Phil Burgert / [email protected]
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3/3/23
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