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The Independent-Reporter office is
closed today and Friday, so employees can celebrate
Christmas with their families. The office will reopen at 8
a.m. Monday, Dec. 27
The procedure for quarantines associated with COVID-19 is changing locally, according to Kerianne Ehrlich, supervisor of the Ellsworth County Health Department, and Jim Kirkbride, administrator at the Ellsworth County Medical Center.
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It was the kind of storm residents of Central Kansas will remember for years — sustained high winds with gusts of more than 100 miles an hour, wildfires, blowing dust.
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Yearbook staff members at Ellsworth Jr./Sr. High School have been notified that the 2021 issue of the Elkan won the Kansas Scholastic Press Association’s All-Kansas award, the highest award given in the organization’s yearly yearbook critique service.
Read moreIn this week’s edition of the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter, readers will find national coupons good for food and other items at local and area grocery stores.
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Kanopolis Middle School students were challenged to a Month of Kindness in December. Each week there were a variety of activities for them to demonstrate kindness to other students, staff, friends, family & community members. They participated in a food drive to benefit the Ellsworth County Food Bank. They collected 1,851 items and delivered to the Food Bank, Dec. 14.
Read moreIn those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
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