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Choitz-Schwerdtfeger Photo collages of family greeted 57 descendants and guests of Friedrich A. and Wilhelmina (Hackbarth) Schwerdtfeger and descendants of Hermann and Augusta (Neumann) Choitz Aug. 10 at the Rancho Milagro Guest Lodge and Event Center in Clear Creek Township.

Cover to Cover It’s beginning to feel a lot like fall. I don’t care for the cold but I do love the sights, smells and the feel that comes with fall. It’s a cozy feeling and what goes better with cozy then a good book and a cup of hot cocoa?

ON THE FARM AND IN THE CITY Grain prices up for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, Oct. 14, were: Wheat, bu. — $3.84, up 24 cents from Oct. 7. Milo, bu. — $3.32, up 10 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $8.20, up 30 cents. Corn, bu. — $3.

Usher in the holiday season with the Ballet Salina/Salina Symphony production of The Nutcracker Nov. 22 and 24 at the Stiefel Theatre. Tickets may be purchased at the Stiefel Theatre Box Office, by calling (785) 827-1998 or online at www.ticketmaster.com.

The Ellsworth County EMS Department is getting some new office furniture. Jeremy Brown, EMS director, received approval at Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County commissioners to purchase $3,236 in office furniture from Office Products Inc.

KANOPOLIS — Slechta Enterprises Inc. of Ellsworth was selected by the Kanopolis City Council Oct. 9 to provide trash collection service to Kanopolis for the next five years, contingent upon review of the contract by Kanopolis City Attorney Patrick Hoffman.

W ILSON — At Monday’s meeting of the Central Plains USD 112 board of education at Wilson School in Wilson, superintendent Greg Clark had exciting news regarding Central Plains Elementary School in Holyrood.

The average residential customer in Ellsworth will pay about $8.27 a month in additional power costs under a plan proposed by the city’s electric provider, the WaKeeney-based Western Cooperative Electric. General manager Tom Ruth and other Western representatives were in Ellsworth Oct.

WILSON — Three candidates for Wilson mayor, along with three for Wilson City Council and two for the Central Plains USD 112 board of education, answered a variety of questions Sunday afternoon in the Wilson School commons during the second of two local candidate forums this election season.