New courthouse trees ‘something Bill would have loved’

Cowley County will put up a stone in front of a maple tree by the courthouse to honor Bill Taylor, longtime county counselor, who died in 2012. “You can’t go through county records without seeing his name everywhere. He lives in our documents,” said county administrator Lucas Goff. “And it’s because of Bill that we had trees around the courthouse in the first place.” At a county commission meeting a number of years ago, Taylor said the county needed to put in trees around the courthouse itself, Goff said. The county planted several trees at that time. But the Kansas weather took a toll on the trees, Goff said, so they had to be taken out from the front of the courthouse this past year.
Source: The Arkansas City Traveler