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On Jan. 28, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed Executive Order 20-01, establishing the Court of Appeals Nominating Commission.

WILSON — The Wilson City Council gave approval at the Jan. 21 meeting to updated guidelines for the keeping of animals and poultry other than household pets within the Wilson city limits. The guidelines will go along with the city’s animal ordinance said Mayor Michael Peschka.

Andrew Bair, chief executive officer of the Ellsworth County Medical Center, briefed Ellsworth County commissioners Monday on the question of whether the hospital will participate in the proposed Ellsworth American Legion 8,000-square-foot community center project.

When state inspectors looked at the 86-yearold bridge, four miles west of Ellsworth on Old Highway 40, they noticed the concrete was breaking down and decaying. Getting that bridge repaired is in the works. Construction was set to start Friday, Jan.

Tami McGreevy, executive director of the Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce, delayed the announcement of the chamber’s person, junior person and organization of the year Saturday, during the chamber’s annual meeting at the Ellsworth American Legion building. She had good reason for doing so.

Pastor Jim Holbrook Aspecial thought for this new year of “Perfect Vision 2020”. What if we, individually, were to take a closer look at our priorities and treasures in life? And what if we were to ask ourselves this question,“Do we own our treasures, or do our treasures own us?

From the files of the January 26, 2012 Conservation Issue of the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter.

It is time to celebrate Kansas’ birthday and the Smoky Hill Museum will be doing it up right. Take the whole family to the museum in downtown Salina and enjoy the fun at the free Kansas Day celebration, from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1.

Grain prices mostly up for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Friday, Jan. 17, were: Wheat, bu. — $4.56, up 1 cent from Jan. 13. Milo, bu. — $3.19 down 1 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $8.17, down 12 cents. Corn, bu. — $3.54, down 1 cent.

The Hays-based Sunflower Electric Power Corporation has merged with Mid-Kansas Electric Company Inc. The marriage of the two cooperatively operated, wholesale electric utilities incorporates Mid-Kansas into Sunflower.