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Keith Haberer thinks Ellsworth County might have found a way to prolong the life of N-95 surgical masks in this time of short supplies.

Will the Ellsworth Municipal Swimming Pool open as usual on Memorial Day Weekend? Will Cowtown Days dance down the streets of downtown as they have almost every year since anyone can remember? So many questions and not nearly enough answers, although that could change this week if Kansas Gov.

The administrative team of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District will have two new members starting Aug. 1. Both are veteran educators with a variety of experience that starts at the elementary level and continues through university.

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic that closed Kansas schools for the final weeks of the 2020-21 academic year, districts scrambled to find ways to recognize seniors in creative ways. At the top, Wilson High School’s five graduates are celebrated with downtown yard signs at the end of main street.

Three local and area students have been named Kansas Governor’s Scholars. Jordyn Coonrod is a senior at Ellsworth High School. She is joined on the scholar’s list by Brandalyn Grace Thyfault, Wilson High School, and Jerred Bieberle, Central Plains High School, Claflin.

HOLYROOD — The Central Plains USD 112 board of education gave consensus approval Monday to have Jim Frees, maintenance man at Central Plains Elementary School, start removing the panel lights from the former Central Plains Middle School building in Bushton and install them at CPES in Holyrood.

What will the athletic program in the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District look like this summer due the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions that are in place both statewide and locally? That was the question Ron Davis Jr.

From the files of the August 11, 1988 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter. 142 YEARS AGO August 15, 1978 On account of the delay in receiving a new supply of print paper, we could not issue a full edition of full sheets of The Reporter.

The overall reaction was positive this past week as several government officials and first responders sat in a darkened bay at EMS headquarters and watched via television to Gov. Laura Kelly explain her four-phase plan to reopen Kansas.

I am unaware of a single computer that has never had a problem. Eventually they all seem to have hiccups, failures, and general issues that cause us grief. As varied as the problems can be, it seems that every helpful friend, family member, or technician has the same initial question.