Newsletter-Late-Week

The face of tariffs at home

President Trump’s tariffs could make things tough for some Lindsborg businesses, but what they mostly suffer now is uncertainty. This is partly because of the delay in effect, partly because of where imported goods happen to be in transit when a tariff is imposed, and partly because of how Trump has gone back and forth so much on so many possible tariffs.

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IN BRIEF

Gallant’s lawyer needs more time before trial The trial of Emile Gallant on federal drug and gun charges was delayed for a second time so his public defender can go over prosecution evidence that has been added to twice since the first delay, in March. Gallant is now scheduled for trial on July 29 in Wichita.

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She took them by the ear

“I have Swedish muscles around my mouth,” Gretchen Esping said. “Because you use your lips in a different way.” She spoke of how to pronounce the Swedish letter Å, which doesn’t sound like an American A, but more like a long O.

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Call to dance and flowers

To conclude the Midsummer's Festival on Saturday, there was folk dancing in Heritage Square at the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum, with both performances by trained dancers and a massive circle dance that called people out of the grandstands to join hands. Scott Bontz photos.

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If they come, how do you build it?

Most of the people who work in Lindsborg don’t live in Lindsborg, according to a study paid for by most of McPherson County’s municipalities, and the director of the housing organization that coordinated support for the study says that the county as a whole needs more homes to make the communities better.

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Careful what you wish for

The front-page story about housing in McPherson County presents an argument for more homes to serve workers of industries that want to grow, and the claim that without growth a community will wither. I won’t say that more homes aren’t needed in this county.

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