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Repairs were still underway at press time Tuesday to repair an eastbound stretch of road at mile marker 229 on Interstate 70 in Ellsworth County, which buckled Monday afternoon.According to Ashley Perez, spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Transportation, KDOT was notified about 3 p.m.

CLAFLIN —The USD 112 Central Plains Board of Education was bombarded with a general consensus of displeasure from visitors during the public forum Monday evening.For about 20 minutes, various people from within the district voiced their concerns with the upcoming vote for disorganization.

HOLYROOD — Bill Lowry, interim superintendent of Central Plains USD 112 school district, answered questions for about an hour June 6 at the Holyrood American Legion regarding the upcoming Aug. 1 primary election vote on whether or not to disorganize the district.

fter lengthy discussionA about insulation options for the bus barn, the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Genese USD 327 board of education took no action during Monday’s meeting.

The past year has been a tumultuous one for USD 112 Central Plains.In January, the school board voted to close Wilson Jr./Sr. High School at the end of the 2022-23 school year. Patrons responded to this decision with a request for a one-year extension, which was denied.

A47-year-old Hutchinson man, Brannon Paul Curiel, drowned Saturday evening at Kanopolis Lake in a kayak-related incident.According to the Ellsworth County Sheriff ’s Office, dispatch received a call at 6:28 p.m. of a potential drowning.

By TERI L. HANSENEllsworth County I-RAfter months of praying for moisture, the recent rains across the state weren’t nearly enough to save the coming harvest according to the Midway Extension District.

Members of the Krizek Park Advisory Committee heard informally from an engineer May 31 during their second meeting at Ellsworth City Hall about the feasibility of backfilling the south detention basin and planting grass.

Arequest for funds to repave a halfmile section of Fourth Road east of Wilson to the old missile silo was denied by the Ellsworth County Commissioners Monday.

WILSON — At Monday’s meeting of the Wilson City Council, Hunter Throop, general manager of the Midland Railroad Hotel properties in Wilson and member of the city’s transient guest tax committee, gave several suggestions on how to spend the money in that fund.