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Grain prices down for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, Oct. 28, were: Wheat, bu. — $3.77, down 7 cents from Oct. 21. Milo, bu. — $3.19, down 3 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $8.04, down 8 cents. Corn, bu. — $3.54, down 3 cents.

Most people in the state are hoping for less snow this winter, but regardless of what Mother Nature has in store, the Kansas Department of Transportation has done its best to be prepared. Parts of Kansas, including Ellsworth on Monday, have already received flurries, and more are expected this week.

Claflin Fire District 1 recently received a grant from ONEOK Community Investments, which fosters partnerships between the company, its employees and the community by investing in the areas where ONEOK has operations and the company’s employees live and work.

It was all about numbers at the most recent monthly meeting of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District board of education at the district office in Ellsworth. Superintendent Dale Brungardt reviewed the district’s student population numbers, which became official Sept.

Pastor Angie Sundell’s name was misspelled in the Oct. 17 edition of the I-R.

The Ellsworth City Council accepted a recommendation by the city housing board Monday and approved a list of five properties to be rehabilitated and six properties to be demolished in Ellsworth.

KANOPOLIS — The fate of a proposed ordinance regulating the keeping of chickens in Kanopolis will not be on the Nov. 5 general election ballot as was originally intended by the Kanopolis City Council.

The Ellsworth County Medical Center (ECMC) Auxiliary’s annual fundraiser, Jingle Bell Shop & Sell, is bursting with good buys and more vendor tables than ever before. New vendors have signed up and many of your favorite vendors are returning. The action will start at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov.