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Ellsworth project update

Detention Basins at K-14/K-140 Intersection (KM 1804815)

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From the files of The Ellsworth Reporter

144 YEARS AGO

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BEYOND WORDS

If we had to select two favorite books out of the thousands we’ve read over the years, our votes would go to “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Mockingbird for its content and Gatsby for its style.

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The winter mouse

Amid the hustle and bustle of this season, I have recently been reminded that, contrary to the temperatures outside, it is winter. As if the short daylight hours, the Christmas stockings and kids being out for winter break haven’t clued me in on this time of the year, a tiny reminder has made it abundantly clear it is indeed winter.

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Reverend McCoy’s Canaan

Prior to European settlement of this place called Kansas, native tribes were very aware of tribal locations and the boundaries that divided them. Those boundaries began to change as settlement from the east pressed against tribal territory in 1825.

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From Our Readers

‘Passages’ connects us to our roots

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January Reminders

This week, the team at the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter starts putting the final touches on the second edition of the newspaper’s quarterly The Magazine. Dedicated to the People and Places of Central Kansas. I-R subscribers will receive The Magazine in their Feb. 3 editions.

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