Malcolm Shaw was 11 years old when Wilson’s historic Levitt Barn was moved from its original home a block off main street to the Princ farm on the east side of town.
Malcolm Shaw was 11 years old when Wilson’s historic Levitt Barn was moved from its original home a block off main street to the Princ farm on the east side of town.
An Ellsworth County man has been charged in federal court with one count of tampering with a public water supply system and one count of reckless damage to a protected computer during unauthorized access.
Three youngsters taking part in Saturday’s Easter Egg Hunt at Lions Club Park in Wilson were, from left, Emma Mahoney of Dorrance, Saige Small of Russell and Aden Squire of Wilson.
WILSON — A new website is possibly in the works for the City of Wilson. At Monday’s meeting of the Wilson City Council, the consensus of the council was to put together a proposal for a new website and seek bids to build it.
From the files of the July 11, 1985 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter.
First Bank taps regional ag loan officer
First Bank Kansas is pleased to announce the hiring of Gunnar Hays as regional ag loan officer.
Last Sunday we celebrated the resurrection of our Lord. Our Lord, who before His death and resurrection was a teacher, a friend, a college, a healer, and yet so much more. He is the hope for the future.
Mary Knapp, assistant state climatologist at Kansas State University in Manhattan, has both good and not-so-good news for Ellsworth County farmers and ranchers. First, the good. Ellsworth County has been cleared of drought. In addition, the county is ahead on rainfall for March.
Ten students from Ellsworth and another from Wilson are recipients of scholarships from the Loganbased Dane G. Hansen Foundation.
(First Published in the Ellsworth County Independent/
Reporter, Thursday, April 8, 2021)
ORDINANCE NO. 626
The Ellsworth County commissioners received an update from Carl Miller, county appraiser, at Monday’s weekly meeting.
Two Ellsworth Bearcats came home Thursday, April 1, from the Russell Invitational with first place wins.
The Ellsworth Bearcat Golf Team took second overall Thursday, April 1, at the Lake Barton Golf Course at Hoisington with a combined score of 410.
State legislatures across the country are criminalizing democracy with bills ostensibly designed to suppress voter turnout. Most voters will not read these bills, and many would not fully grasp the details of their provisions if they did. What they will grasp is that helping someone to vote can be a FELONY punishable by fine and/or imprisonment. Practically speaking the penalties of fine and imprisonment will rarely apply; the FELONY threat alone will suffice to discourage voter turnout.
The end of March gives us a chance to evaluate the first three quarters of Kansas’ fiscal year. With all that has happened in the last year, we have not been very certain of how tax revenues would fare for the state.
Smallpox was particularly devastating to native people following the European entry into the New World.
Daughter Allie came home from Lawrence this past weekend and while I didn’t keep track, I suspect we put more miles on her car in one day than she has in the past year. We drove to Lindsborg to visit one of our favorite shops, which had reopened a few days earlier, and then stopped a couple of stores down for lunch before we returned to Salina. That night we attended a movie at the Salina Arts Cinema before having dinner at a downtown restaurant.
