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Teresa Shute, supervisor of the Ellsworth County Recycling Program, had good news at Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County Commission — the program is starting up once again.Approval was given to purchase a dump trailer for $12,400 from Mid-Kan Trailer Sales, Hays, to collect cardboard.Approval...

One of the key topics of Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth Kansas USD 327 Board of Education was an extension of a discussion that took place at their May meeting on student handbook sections pertaining to cell phones.While the board approved the EBBD, JBH, EE, GARIA, GARID, JDDAA, JGFGBA and GCIA...

MANHATTAN — Students from Ellsworth Jr./Sr. High School competed at the annual Kansas FFA Convention May 29-31 at Kansas State University, with the chapter walking away with eight state champions.Results: Semifinalist in extemp — Josie Kueser Semifinalist in prepared public speaking — Noah Goss...

The 15th annual Ellsworth County Cancer Fund event takes place beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at the Ellsworth Recreation Center.This year, according to ECCF Chair Deb Mog, it is not a triathlon as in years past, but a celebration.“We did kind of change some things up this year, hopefully to...

KANOPOLIS — After months of delays and promises of answers “soon,” the Kanopolis City Council learned during its May 14 meeting that funding is not available for the town’s proposed water tower.“When they passed appropriation bills, congressmen earmarked all funds that would usually be given to...

Sparks once again flew at Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth City Council.During the process of making his annual mayoral appointments, Mayor Dan Finnegan received pushback from several city council members when he declined to appoint Dustin Stambaugh as city administrator and Patrick Hoffman as...

More 2025 budget requests were received by the Ellsworth County Commission Monday.Chief Judge Carrie Hipp of the 20th Judicial District presented a budget request in the amount of $104,980, the same amount requested for 2024.Pamela Hays of the Ellsworth County Conservation District presented a...

At Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County Comissioners, discussion took place with the county’s department heads and elected officials on county employees’ email security.Kirby Fox of LockIT Technologies discussed Microsoft 365 licensing, which would be a universal email system using a .gov email...

LAWRENCE — Ellsworth senior Peyton Coonrod took first place in advertising design at the Kansas Scholastic Press Association State Journalism Contest May 4 at the University of Kansas.Those who competed were junior Allie Thomasson in yearbook copywriting and cutline writing; junior Nash Hellebust...

Legionfest is going to be just a little different this year.