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Gov. Laura Kelly said this past week she will dispatch her lieutenant governor to a dozen small cities across the state in hopes of crafting a plan to aid rural areas. Kelly created the Office of Rural Prosperity and named Lt. Gov. Lynn Rogers to head it in January soon after taking office.

ON THE FARM AND IN THE CITY Grain prices drop for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, June 10, were: Wheat, bu. — $4.18, down 34 cents from June 3. Milo, bu. — $3.41, down 8 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $7.24, down 20 cents. Corn, bu. — $3.

KANOPOLIS — When state officials went in search of a young family as representative of the state’s firsttime homebuyers, their journey ended at Kanopolis.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week it is investing up to $12.5 million to help support the adoption of innovative conservation approaches on agricultural lands.

Two more budget requests for 2020 were presented to the Ellsworth County commissioners Monday during the weekly meeting at the county courthouse.

Several years ago, Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School Board member Mark Herzog looked at the $88,000 the district lost on food service and said the money was enough to pay the salaries of two teachers. This past year, with its current meal provider, OPAA!

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Apublic hearing is planned July 8 on a petition to vacate a portion of Pinewood in Reber’s Addition near Evans Street in east Ellsworth. The hearing will be at 4:30 p.m. in the community room of the Ellsworth Municipal Golf Course.

Ground is set to be broken later this year on 12 rental houses in Ellsworth and two in Kanopolis as part of a tax credit package recently approved by the Kansas Housing Resource Corporation. The energy-efficient single family houses are expected to cost about $130,000 to build.

Officials from NetWork Kansas were in Ellsworth this past week to welcome Ellsworth County to a program aimed at helping entrepreneurs and small businesses with financing.