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Three local and area students have been named Kansas Governor’s Scholars. Jordyn Coonrod is a senior at Ellsworth High School. She is joined on the scholar’s list by Brandalyn Grace Thyfault, Wilson High School, and Jerred Bieberle, Central Plains High School, Claflin.

HOLYROOD — The Central Plains USD 112 board of education gave consensus approval Monday to have Jim Frees, maintenance man at Central Plains Elementary School, start removing the panel lights from the former Central Plains Middle School building in Bushton and install them at CPES in Holyrood.

What will the athletic program in the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District look like this summer due the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions that are in place both statewide and locally? That was the question Ron Davis Jr.

From the files of the August 11, 1988 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter. 142 YEARS AGO August 15, 1978 On account of the delay in receiving a new supply of print paper, we could not issue a full edition of full sheets of The Reporter.

The overall reaction was positive this past week as several government officials and first responders sat in a darkened bay at EMS headquarters and watched via television to Gov. Laura Kelly explain her four-phase plan to reopen Kansas.

I am unaware of a single computer that has never had a problem. Eventually they all seem to have hiccups, failures, and general issues that cause us grief. As varied as the problems can be, it seems that every helpful friend, family member, or technician has the same initial question.

Grain prices up for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, May 4, were: Wheat, bu. — $4.52 up 16 cents from April 27. Milo, bu. — $3.36, up 10 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $7.36, up 2 cents. Corn, bu. — $2.81, up 10 cents.

WILSON — The front door of Wilson City Hall was set to reopen to the public Tuesday, May 5. Mayor Mike Peschka made the announcement at the end of Monday’s meeting of the Wilson City Council.

Michael “Mikey” Martinez talks to well wishers from a distance April 29 as they drive through the Ellsworth Mosaic parking lot to say goodbye. Martinez is leaving Ellsworth for a job in Arizona. ALAN RUSCH/Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter

The U.S. Small Business Administration is making agricultural businesses eligible for Economic Injury Disaster Loans.