News

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.

The Union Pacific Big Boy Locomotive will be in Ellsworth from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Lincoln Avenue crossing. The locomotive — the largest ever used by Union Pacific — will spend Wednesday night in Salina. Union Pacific’s historic Big Boy steam locomotive No.

It’s that time of year again to start dealing with falling leaves from deciduous trees. So now is a good time to think about your options and plan on how to handle the litter.

Ellsworth County commissioners will canvass votes from the 2019 city and school board elections Monday, Nov. 18.

Information in the Kanopolis Chicken Ordinance story in the Oct. 17 edition of the I-R was inaccurate. The Kanopolis City Council approved a chicken ordinance Aug. 8, 1989.