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Extension Focus Several months ago, I wrote an article about teen e-cigarette and vaping use. I want to again tell you about what kind of work I am doing on this topic, and more importantly why you should care about e-cigarettes and vaping.

Grain prices mixed for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, Oct. 7, were: Wheat, bu. — $3.60, down 13 cents from Sept. 30. Milo, bu. — $3.22, down 1 cent. Soybeans, bu. — $7.90, up 9 cents. Corn, bu. — $3.57, down 1 cent.

The Western Cooperative Electric rate meeting is at the Ellsworth American Legion building, 645 E. 15th Street. The location was incorrect in the Oct. 3 Independent-Reporter.

Ellsworth City administrator Scott Moore talked about the importance of the relationship between the American Legion and the communities the organization serves Saturday, during the Legion’s Sixth District Fall Conference in Ellsworth. Moore said it’s nice to remember those who served.

Pascha Morgan, who grew up being an “Army brat” and has been basically everywhere, has walked approximately 320 miles through Kansas thus far. He is no stranger to Kansas — his grandfather grew up in Leavenworth, and he still has some family there.

Ellsworth and the state’s 104 other counties will have a post election audit of votes the day after the Nov. 5 general election.

HOLYROOD — By the end of Monday’s 55-minute special meeting at Central Plains Elementary School in Holyrood, the Central Plains USD 112 board of education had rescinded a previous vote to sell the former Central Plains Middle School building for $1 to the City of Bushton and agreed to began looking...

WILSON — Brat and burger eating, beer drinking and horseshoe throwing are on the agenda in Wilson Saturday, Oct. 12, as the Wilson Czech Festival Committee hosts Czechtober Fest in Jellison Park.

From the files of the Aug. 22, 1991 edition of the Ellsworth Reporter. 138 YEARS AGO August 25, 1881 The Union Pacific paycar went west on the 20th. School commences on the 12th proximo. The wild plums and grapes were never better than this year.