June 19, 2017 | Snap!
Business partners and friends fondly remember Ramon Criss, El Dorado Inc.’s first elected president, who died in May at the age of 82. Criss, an area entrepreneur and philanthropist, had a long track record of helping the El Dorado and Butler County commu...
June 13, 2017 | Snap!
Five screech owls sat on a large oak tree branch in the boyhood backyard of Charley Green. When Green opened the back door of his family home and discovered them there, he showed his parents. They called The El Dorado Times, and the newspaper shot a photograph ...
May 12, 2017 | Snap!
When Jillian Marsh was 7 years old, she was with her mom at a fabric store that was going out of business. As she rummaged through bins of merchandise, she found some seed beads, took them home and created her first piece of jewelry. An artist was born, and Mar...
May 8, 2017 | Snap!
Seven El Dorado High School students had the chance to test out their business skills on the national stage when they competed at the DECA, Inc. international competition last month. Ryan Hull has sponsored the EHS DECA chapter for seven years, and in 2017 he s...
April 11, 2017 | Snap!
Community members have come out of the woodwork to support the new EWOW Middle School After School Program. More than 80 El Dorado middle school students are signed up for the YMCA after school program, which opened its doors Feb. 28. “We are hitting the ...
March 24, 2017 | Snap!
Reading children’s books and walking for exercise will combine this year in El Dorado to create a series of engaging events that are free to the community. Three local organizations worked together to create the reading and walking events called the Story...
March 17, 2017 | Snap!
A quiet group of young authors entered a second-grade classroom at Grandview Elementary ready to collaborate. El Dorado High School creative writing teacher Heather Fangmann came up with the idea for her students to partner with second grade students to create ...
March 7, 2017 | Snap!
Anaya McCune’s parents did not own any cattle when she was a child, and she grew up in town. “Until I was 9, I was a city girl,” the 16-year-old Circle High School sophomore said. But that didn’t stop her from becoming one of the area&rs...
February 24, 2017 | Snap!
Skelly Elementary School educators reward students demonstrating good behavior with a trip to camp — CHAMP Camp. The 2016-2017 Skelly theme is camping, and teachers decorated their classrooms in camping-themed decorations. To go along with that, the posit...
February 14, 2017 | Snap!
Butler Community College sophomore Emily Beckman had the grades and high school resume to have her pick of colleges when she graduated from Derby High School in 2015. Beckman, who serves as the Grizzly Magazine editor, chose to come to Butler because she was of...
February 7, 2017 | Snap!
El Dorado Middle School teacher Russell Baker’s eighth grade students learn the art of presenting by going very public with their presentations each day. EMS News started two-and-a-half years ago when Baker realized a daily newscast would be a real-life l...
January 30, 2017 | Snap!
El Dorado just got sweeter with the addition of The Sweet Mercantile, a gourmet chocolate, candy and gift shop opened by area native Anna Graves Vestring. The Sweet Mercantile, located at 201 N. Main St., opened Thursday. It is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tu...
