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Grain prices mostly up for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, June 8, were: Wheat, bu. — $4.26 down 2 cents from June 1. Milo, bu. — $3.39, up 11 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $7.65, up 24 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $7.65, up 24 cents. Corn, bu.

A watch advisory for blue-green algae continues for Marion County Lake in Marion County, and a watch has been issued for Kanopolis Reservoir in Ellsworth County. A watch means that bluegreen algae have been detected and a harmful algal bloom is present or likely to develop.

Ellsworth County, the city of Ellsworth and Wilson have been awarded more than $300,000 in Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus Response Supplement funds from the Kansas Department of Commerce.

Marcia Gier, 4-H youth development agent for the Midway Extension District, gave a few more details of this year’s Ellsworth County 4-H Fair Monday at the weekly meeting of the county commissioners. Gier said the plan is to keep the fair as low key as possible.

HOLYROOD — Girls volleyball at Wilson High School and Central Plains Junior-Senior High School in Claflin will look a little different for the 2021 season due to numbers.

The trip Dawn Dolezal makes at least twice a week between Ellsworth and Lincoln presents a landscape that in another two weeks or so could produce an abundance of wheat. But looks can be deceiving.

A week ago, Stacie Schmidt and about 500 others from the United States and beyond joined a digital Zoom meeting organized by the Wichita-based Kansas Leadership Center on systemic racism. “What are you going to do?” participants were asked. For Schmidt, the answer was simple.

KANOPOLIS — Fort Harker Days is postponed until next year. That was the decision of the Kanopolis City Council June 2 during a special council meeting — but only after 30 minutes of back and forth discussion.

Property and casualty insurance costs and the Special Education Assessment paid to Salina USD 305 will increase during the next school year.