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Ellsworth Correctional Facility has a new warden. Donald Langford started his new job Nov. 17, but he will split his warden responsibilities between ECF and the Larned Correctional/Mental Health Facility until a new warden is named there. “I worked there as warden for three years,” Langford said.

Since August, Usha Reddi has traveled 10,000 miles to carry her grassroots message to the Kansas citizens she hopes to represent in the U.S. Senate.

Members of the Ellsworth City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to “terminate the employment, effective immediately” of city administrator Scott Moore.

Visitors to the Ellsworth County Courthouse and Ellsworth City Hall might just want to bundle up before heading inside. For the second time since 2005 both buildings’ boilers are currently out of service.

Pastor’s Podium One evening as I was getting my granddaughters ready for bed and getting them settled down so that we could say our prayers, Jordyn started in and her prayer was itemized and quite lengthy. Kylee, her twin, simply bowed her head and said,“All I can say is thank you!

Brian Bontrager considers the moment this past September when he picked a small piece of metal out of the ground “divine intervention.” At the time, the Ellsworth man was standing in a lonely pasture five miles southeast of Talihina, in southeast Oklahoma.

CLAFLIN — A potential violation of the Kansas Open Meetings Act by the Central Plains USD 112 board of education was reported to the public Monday, during the board’s meeting at Central Plains Junior-Senior High School in Claflin.

ON THE FARM AND IN THE CITY Grain prices mostly down for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, Nov. 11, were: Wheat, bu. — $3.83, no change from Nov. 4. Milo, bu. — $3.06, down 10 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $7.85, down 21 cents. Corn, bu. — $3.