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WILSON — At the Feb. 21 meeting of the Wilson City Council, former Wilson mayor and city council member David Criswell questioned current Mayor Mike Peschka regarding his due diligence and fact-finding on an issue Criswell brought before the council over a year-and-a-half ago.

Area students recognizedMANHATTAN — More than 4,200 Kansas State University students have earned honors for their academic performance in the fall 2022 semester.Students earning a grade point average for the semester of 3.

At Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County commissioners, Colleen Sippel was reappointed to another four-year term as Ellsworth County’s representative to the Central Kansas Library System board of directors.

Ellsworth Jr./Sr.High School eighth grade student Jace Thomasson can one day tell his children exactly what he did on his 14th birthday March 15.He won the 2023 Ellsworth County Spelling Bee in the school’s Performing Arts Center.

Grow Ellsworth County, in association with the Network Kansas E-Community Partnership, and in coordination with USD 327, hosted the Second Annual Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge Feb. 20 at the Ellsworth Jr./ Sr. High School.

Since December, Ellsworth has been without recycling services. Though the city didn’t have curbside recycling, it did have a drop-off point for recyclables that residents could utilize.

If you have driven north on Douglas Avenue in downtown Ellsworth anytime in the last few months, you have probably seen the work of local artist Josh Womelsdorf.Womelsdorf painted the colorful mural on the south wall of Paden’s Restaurant and Bar which depicts two longhorn cattle.

CLAFLIN — At Monday’s meeting of the Central Plains USD 112 board of education, a group Wilson residents had a special request: Consider a land transfer of Wilson School to another school district.

Ellsworth Jr./Sr. High School will receive security upgrades, thanks to a vote at Monday night’s USD 327 Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo Board of Education meeting.“We wanted to improve our video surveillance and for it to be networked,” Superintendent Deena Hilbig said.

MANHATTAN — Mid Kansas Cooperative (MKC) announced the launch of an apprenticeship program to hire agricultural equipment operators, CDL drivers and operations specialists through Kansas Farm Bureau’s Rural Kansas Apprenticeship Program.