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The first we know of him, he was called Abram, and the Lord told him, “Go from your country, and your kindred, and your father’s house to the land I will show you ...” Abram went as the Lord had told him. There was no question, no hesitation, Abram went. He obeyed, and with faith, trusted the Lord, and began his journey to the land God told him to seek. To remove any doubts, the Lord also said, “... You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you ... and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” And so, this wandering Aramaic started a new family, a new people, who held God as their maker and the center of their lives.
Read moreThe following is the rest of the USD 112 story from Page B3 of the Feb. 27 I-R:
Read moreLORRAINE — The water table in Lorraine is rising. At the Feb. 18 meeting of the Lorraine City Council, Larry Klug, maintenance director, said the city’s water well has two more feet of water now than at this time last year.
Read moreAndrew Bair, chief executive officer of the Ellsworth County Medical Center, gave a brief update on possible participation in the proposed Ellsworth American Legion Community Center Feb. 19, during the monthly meeting of the hospital board of directors.
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Three local state legislators — Rep. Steven Johnson, R-Assaria; Sen. Rick Wilborn, R-McPherson; and Rep. Troy Waymaster, R-Bunker Hill — began Saturday’s hour-long Legislative Coffee at Grandma’s Soda Shop in Wilson with a briefing on Medicaid expansion and other major topics.
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Every piece of Dryden pottery Pauline Zvolanek removes from the display case at Ellsworth’s Hodgden House Museum to dust and catalog, she wonders — Did I have a hand in making this?
Read moreAt Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth City Council, approval was given to a $48,083.35 bid from City Plumbing to complete the Evans Street sewer extension and to use TIF (Tax Increment Financing) funding to finance the project.
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