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      Governor Kelly adds new phase to “Ad Astra” plan Kelly: COVID-19 metrics indicate progress, but caution still needed   This afternoon, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed Executive Order 20-32, which establishes a new phase to the “Ad Astra: Plan to Reopen Kansas.” The new “1.

I remember this one time my husband and I attended the High School Achievement Banquet. We had attended this banquet year after year in support of other students because my husband was a high school math teacher, but this time was different, our oldest daughter was a senior.

Grain prices mostly up for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, May 11, were: Wheat, bu. — $4.40 down 12 cents from May 4. Milo, bu. — $3.39, up 3 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $7.55, up 19 cents. Corn, bu. — $2.84, up 3 cents. Corn, bu. — $2.

Ellsworth County is the recipient of another road construction project, and concerns are being raised about access to Wilson in particular.

With social distancing requirements brought on by the coronavirus pandemic in mind, Ellsworth residents paused to observe the National Day of Prayer the morning of May 7 — albeit remotely via the Ellsworth Kiwanis Facebook page.

High schools across Kansas expect school to open this fall, and with that may come Friday night football. Yet sports during a pandemic could look different.

Keith Haberer thinks Ellsworth County might have found a way to prolong the life of N-95 surgical masks in this time of short supplies.

Will the Ellsworth Municipal Swimming Pool open as usual on Memorial Day Weekend? Will Cowtown Days dance down the streets of downtown as they have almost every year since anyone can remember? So many questions and not nearly enough answers, although that could change this week if Kansas Gov.

The administrative team of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District will have two new members starting Aug. 1. Both are veteran educators with a variety of experience that starts at the elementary level and continues through university.

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic that closed Kansas schools for the final weeks of the 2020-21 academic year, districts scrambled to find ways to recognize seniors in creative ways. At the top, Wilson High School’s five graduates are celebrated with downtown yard signs at the end of main street.