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February is a month that has several holidays that are celebrated. One of the most popular days is Feb. 14 — Valentines Day. A day that romantics have thoughts of cards, candlelight dinners, maybe even a singing telegram.

KANOPOLIS — The Ellsworth County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two individuals in connection with the Dec. 3 break-in at the Kanopolis Corner Store in Kanopolis.

A 59-year-old Ellsworth man was convicted of four child sex-crime related charges Feb. 20 in Ellsworth County District Court.

HOLYROOD — Members of the Central Plains USD 112 board of education conducted two special board meetings Feb. 20 at Central Plains Elementary School in Holyrood. The first was a discussion of potential district goals lasting almost two hours.

Josh Svaty and Rex Buchanan presented the program Sunday at the 59th annual meeting of the Ellsworth County Historical Society at the Ellsworth Senior Center. The two, along with Topeka law professor Burke Griggs, are authors of “Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills.

WILSON — The City of Wilson is looking for a few good bus drivers. At the Feb. 18 meeting of the Wilson City Council, city clerk Susan Kriley said she has nine drivers signed up to drive the city bus, but only four or five can drive during the week.

At Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth City Council, approval was given to a $48,083.35 bid from City Plumbing to complete the Evans Street sewer extension and to use TIF (Tax Increment Financing) funding to finance the project.

Every piece of Dryden pottery Pauline Zvolanek removes from the display case at Ellsworth’s Hodgden House Museum to dust and catalog, she wonders — Did I have a hand in making this? There is probably no answer to that question, but one thing is certain.

Three local state legislators — Rep. Steven Johnson, R-Assaria; Sen. Rick Wilborn, R-McPherson; and Rep. Troy Waymaster, R-Bunker Hill — began Saturday’s hour-long Legislative Coffee at Grandma’s Soda Shop in Wilson with a briefing on Medicaid expansion and other major topics.

Andrew Bair, chief executive officer of the Ellsworth County Medical Center, gave a brief update on possible participation in the proposed Ellsworth American Legion Community Center Feb. 19, during the monthly meeting of the hospital board of directors.