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Sitting in the choppy waters of the English Channel the day before D-Day, 20-year-old Private James R. Lambeth wondered what would happen on the beaches of Normandy. “We had no idea what we were getting into,” recalled Lambeth, a retired Illinois farmer.

The Ellsworth County District Court has a new clerk. Kristy Vattershell of Lyons introduced herself at Monday’s meeting of the county commissioners. Vattershell succeeds longtime clerk Peggy Svaty, who resigned recently to run for county magistrate judge.

WILSON — Wilson’s longtime city judge, Darrell Thrasher, was recognized for his many years of service Monday during a meeting of the Wilson City Council. Thrasher retired May 31 after serving since August 1991. “I enjoyed every bit of it,” Thrasher said.

A third case of Covid-19 has been confirmed in Ellsworth County.

Sitting in the choppy waters of the English Channel the day before D-Day, 20-year-old Private James R. Lambeth wondered what would happen on the beaches of Normandy. “We had no idea what we were getting into,” recalled Lambeth, a retired Illinois farmer.

In Matthew’s Gospel Jesus talks of teaching his Apostles; of getting them ready to do the work that will need to be done by them when he is no longer with them.

Grain prices mostly up for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, June 8, were: Wheat, bu. — $4.26 down 2 cents from June 1. Milo, bu. — $3.39, up 11 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $7.65, up 24 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $7.65, up 24 cents. Corn, bu.

A watch advisory for blue-green algae continues for Marion County Lake in Marion County, and a watch has been issued for Kanopolis Reservoir in Ellsworth County. A watch means that bluegreen algae have been detected and a harmful algal bloom is present or likely to develop.

Ellsworth County, the city of Ellsworth and Wilson have been awarded more than $300,000 in Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus Response Supplement funds from the Kansas Department of Commerce.

Marcia Gier, 4-H youth development agent for the Midway Extension District, gave a few more details of this year’s Ellsworth County 4-H Fair Monday at the weekly meeting of the county commissioners. Gier said the plan is to keep the fair as low key as possible.