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With the increase in unemployment, loss of health insurance, and increased mental health needs, the funding to offer discounted services for the uninsured and to provide trainings to the community has been depleted.

WILSON — A recent drug-related incident at Central Plains Junior-Senior High School has led the Central Plains USD 112 board of education to consider a drug testing policy. At Monday’s board meeting at Wilson School, Greg Clark, superintendent, said the incident happened Jan. 23.

What does a post-COVID world look like for Kansas public school students and their families? How do school districts address lost learning opportunities? And social and emotional needs?

No one attended a public hearing Monday night of the Ellsworth City Council on the property at 221 West St. that has been deemed dangerous by the City of Ellsworth.

Adams Brown, Strategic Allies and CPAs, has added Emmy Kempke to its expanding Wichita team. Prior to joining as a staff accountant in the tax department, Emmy worked with the firm as an intern and student worker, starting in 2017.

Temperatures are supposed to remain very cold over the next week and the Ellsworth County I-R has received at least two e-mails from area residents concerned about animals being outside without food, water or shelter. Please take care of your pets.

ILSON — The cost of being in the Wilson City Cemetery is going up. At Monday’s meeting of the Wilson City Council, Ordinance 859 was approved. The ordinance increases the cost of a opening a regular or mausoleum grave from $250 to $350, which was approved at the Jan. 19 meeting.

The Value Added Producer Grant program, one of the few U.S. Department of Agriculture grant programs available directly to farmers and ranchers, is now open. The grants help farmers and ranchers offset costs of developing or expanding their added-value products.

Updating the water meter reading system in Ellsworth was a main focus of Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth City Council. Rusty Varnado, city administrator, had representatives from three businesses give 10-minute presentations on their automated metering infrastructure systems.

On Jan. 20, Dale Wooton, plant manager of Great Plains Manufacturing in Ellsworth, celebrated not only his 65th birthday, but his retirement from Great Plains after 27 years of service. “It was a target I set years ago,” Wooton said.