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As summer winds down with school starting today (Thursday), the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo USD 327 board met Monday at the district office with a light agenda. The biggest discussion involved the AptaFund Banking program which the district switched to earlier this year.

Trisha and Justin Nelson shared more than a marriage and three children. They also were born on the same day, July 10, in different years. Trisha celebrated her 40th birthday this summer; Justin turned 41. “I just think that’s remarkable ...

Virginia “Gin” Szagola is roughly half-way finished with her trip across the United States and she already has enough for a book. For the most part, she has been greeted with kindness during her walk across America. There have only been a couple of times she was scared.

“The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.” ( John 1:14 MSG) The gospel writer John paints a rather detailed picture of who Jesus was. Theologically, John painted Jesus as a real person created in the image of God and who incarnated, or lived out, the very nature of God.

Traffic (Note: Traffic cases resolved between July 31 to Aug. 7, 2019. Fines include a $108 docket fee.) JUDGMENT ON PLEA OF GUILTY – Nicole Anderson, speeding, $258; unsafe turning or stopping, failure to give proper signal, $75. Demar De Bruce, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, $303.

Stacie Schmidt remembers watching her father, Larry Schmidt, play the part of Sheriff Chancey Whitney each year during the Ellsworth Cowtown Days celebration.

The youth group of First Baptist Church in Wilson have had a busy and blessed summer! In June, they helped with the Ellsworth County Cancer Walk, the Red Cross Blood Drive, and put on a Teen Crusade in Spearsville, La. In July they went to a Bible camp in Ottawa, Kan.

The Rice County Historical Society/Coronado Quivira Museum has been selected to participate in a Smithsonian pilot project to develop a unique humanities-based exhibition about local work history.

Ellsworth County Attorney Paul J. Kasper plans to follow up on two questions asked Monday by commissioner Dennis Rolfs during the weekly commission meeting. The first questions concerned the recovery of payment for medical and dental treatments provided to inmates at the Ellsworth County Jail.