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Grain prices mixed for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, Dec. 26, were: Wheat, bu. — $4.33, up 10 cents from Dec. 19. Milo, bu. — $3.21, up 1 cent. Soybeans, bu. — $8.32, up 17 cents. Corn, bu. — $3.54, up 2 cents.

The successful applicants for Montgomery Incubator Project funding plan to rev up their digital efforts and — if successful — become possible models for other small dailies and weeklies.

It was a Merry Christmas this year for Ryan and Lindsey Habiger of Bushton. Ryan had the winning ticket during the Dec. 21 drawing for $500 as part of the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter’s Christmas Cash Giveaway in downtown Ellsworth. “It was kind of a surprise,” Ryan said.

Twenty-three enlarged Christmas and New Year’s post cards from 1880 to 1918 are on display until Jan. 4 at the Rice County Historical Society’s Coronado Quivira Museum. The postcards are part of a larger group donated by Gladys Ritterhouse to RCHS in 2018.

Ayden Blue, right, distributes gifts Dec. 20 to residents of Ellsworth’s Good Samaritan campus. Students and residents sang Christmas carols prior to opening gifts. It was all part of the Santa for Seniors program.

Ellsworth residents shouldn’t be surprised to see white smoke coming from their sewer system in the months ahead, thanks to the purchase of a smoke blower machine by the City of Ellsworth. The purchase of the smoke blower machine was approved in an amount not to exceed $2,000 at the Dec.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has executed a settlement with the Central Plains 112 Board of Education to resolve a violation of the Kansas Open Meetings Act.

Andrew Bair, chief executive officer of the Ellsworth County Medical Center, finds himself in a conundrum regarding the hospital’s continued participation in the proposed Ellsworth American Legion community building project “I feel like I’m squarely in the hot seat right now,” Bair told members of...

“We got a U.S. Senate seat up for election, so that even makes it more of a target,” Republican Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab said.“We’re not going to assume we’re safe, even though we are right now.