BBB: Watch for this scam when selling through marketplace

Selling unwanted items around your house to pick up some extra money is easier than ever, thanks to the social media platforms that offer the service. Recent years have seen Facebook Marketplace grow in popularity, competing with eBay and Craigslist. But your Better Business Bureau (BBB) warns that reports are coming in of scammer activities on the Marketplace site here in Kansas which are using Google Voice verification.

THE PRETTIEST ‘KITTY’S IN DODGE CITY

Dee Dee Royle, Christina Haselhorst and Alicia Ocker, the women who portray “Miss Kitty” in the Boot Hill Variety Show, pose together on Front Street during the museum’s “Hoover Day” celebration June 18.

Goldie Taylor, Sheila Grayson and Buck Taylor

Goldie Taylor, Sheila Grayson and Buck Taylor pause to enjoy the moment amidst all the hustlers and bustles that turned out for “Hoover Day” at Boot Hill Museum June 18. [PHOTO BY David Greyson] .

Ardine Maynard

Ardine Maynard, 83 of Fowler, KS., passed away on June 16, 2022. She was born July 25, 1938.

Author Wenzl: it took a village to write ‘Mexican Village’ book

Tim Wenzl and his powerful pen have done it again. The archivist emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City and author of several books on Kansas history, (not to mention a former Globe reporter from the days when the newsroom throbbed with the daily achievements of noisy typewriters and a full staff) just published his latest achievement, “Dodge City’s Mexican Village: A Place in Time 1906-1956.” The 120-page document is full of first-hand accounts and beloved photographs of scenes that were captured by Lalo Rodriguez, among others, that depict the life of Mexican residents inside their homes in the Mexican Village as well as out in the larger Dodge City community.