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What will the athletic program in the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District look like this summer due the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions that are in place both statewide and locally?
Read moreHOLYROOD — The Central Plains USD 112 board of education gave consensus approval Monday to have Jim Frees, maintenance man at Central Plains Elementary School, start removing the panel lights from the former Central Plains Middle School building in Bushton and install them at CPES in Holyrood. The panel lighting at the elementary school would be installed back in the Bushton building.
Read moreThree local and area students have been named Kansas Governor’s Scholars.
Read moreFrom the files of the August 11, 1988 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter.
Read moreI remember this one time my husband and I attended the High School Achievement Banquet. We had attended this banquet year after year in support of other students because my husband was a high school math teacher, but this time was different, our oldest daughter was a senior.
Read moreWith social distancing requirements brought on by the coronavirus pandemic in mind, Ellsworth residents paused to observe the National Day of Prayer the morning of May 7 — albeit remotely via the Ellsworth Kiwanis Facebook page.
Read moreWill the Ellsworth Municipal Swimming Pool open as usual on Memorial Day Weekend? Will Cowtown Days dance down the streets of downtown as they have almost every year since anyone can remember?
Read moreThanks 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.
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