Colors of spring — beautiful purple flowers bring joy at Krizek Park. (Inset picture) A unique sight, an albino robin hops through the grass at Krizek Park. BILL BECKMEYER/Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter
Colors of spring — beautiful purple flowers bring joy at Krizek Park. (Inset picture) A unique sight, an albino robin hops through the grass at Krizek Park. BILL BECKMEYER/Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter
Russell Varnado wasn’t looking for another job when he joined a virtual Zoom meeting organized by the Ellsworth City Council as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19.
Boy Scout Troop 84 member Braydon Halbgewachs of Ellsworth places flags on the graves of veterans at Ellsworth’s West Cemetery.
Ellsworth County Medical Center is one step closer to in-house testing for COVID-19.
A discussion during Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County commissioners on a county travel quarantine order morphed into a heated exchange between commissioner Dennis Rolfs and Keith Haberer, emergency management director for both Ellsworth and Russell counties.
Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic that closed Kansas schools for the final weeks of the 2020-21 academic year, districts scrambled to find ways to recognize seniors in creative ways. At the top, Wilson High School’s five graduates are celebrated with downtown yard signs at the end of main street. Below, are a few photos of seniors from the Ellsworth High School Class of 2020 that hang as banners from the fence at Ellsworth Elementary School. At far left is the cover of this year’s Independent-Reporter salute to graduates. You will find it in this week’s edition. Photos by Alan Rusch, Ellsworth County I-R.
These are emotional days for Wilson’s Bob Powers and the girls’ basketball team he guided to a 6-15 season.
Pharmaceutical companies and large hotel chains snatched up emergency COVID-19 federal loans meant for businesses typically with 500 or fewer employees.
For Ignatius Rodriguez and his staff of more than three dozen at Gene’s Heartland Foods, the past three weeks have been like nothing they have ever experienced.
These are emotional days for Wilson’s Bob Powers and the girls’ basketball team he guided to a 6-15 season.
After 136 consecutive wins, it took a worldwide pandemic to slow down the Lady Oilers. Central Plains was well on its way toward a seventh-straight state championship after its 93-47 win over Ingalls Thursday evening in round of the Class 1A State Basketball Championships in Dodge City. Less than 90 minutes later, with the final teams still on the court, the Kansas State High School Activities Association announced the tournament and season would end at the conclusion of the quarterfinal round.
The Lady Oilers played Wheatland/Grinnell at Russell for the sub-state championship game and won solidly by a whopping 82-22 score.
The Grab & Go Summer Lunch Program started Monday, June 1, and will continue Mondays through Fridays with the exception of holidays.
Ellsworth City Council member Tyler Renard is not peachy keen about the color of a city water tower near the city swimming pool.
When abolitionists elected their own government under the Topeka Constitution in 1856, members of the “unauthorized” territorial government were indicted for high treason.
Given this country’s recent drift to less than civil words, we thought it would be appropriate to remind ourselves that words do matter, especially in times such as these.
