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Will 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.
Read moreThe administrative team of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District will have two new members starting Aug. 1. Both are veteran educators with a variety of experience that starts at the elementary level and continues through university.
Read moreKeith Haberer thinks Ellsworth County might have found a way to prolong the life of N-95 surgical masks in this time of short supplies.
Read moreHigh schools across Kansas expect school to open this fall, and with that may come Friday night football. Yet sports during a pandemic could look different.
Read moreEllsworth County is the recipient of another road construction project, and concerns are being raised about access to Wilson in particular.
Read moreThe overall reaction was positive this past week as several government officials and first responders sat in a darkened bay at EMS headquarters and watched via television to Gov. Laura Kelly explain her four-phase plan to reopen Kansas.
Read moreEllsworth County reported its first case of COVID-19 — a man over the age of 50 who works at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility. No other information was released in order to protect the identity of ECF employee.
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