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Each week, the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter sets aside space on Page A1 to give our readers the most recent information on COVID-19. It’s something we’ve done since the pandemic started more than a year ago
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‘What do you do in economic development?’ is by far the top asked question I hear as I navigate my fourth year as director of Ellsworth County Economic Development. Sometimes that question is asked directly, and other times it’s an unspoken wondering in the community, so when I was asked to write an editorial for the Progress Edition, I was eager to have an opportunity to explain what economic development does.
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After war broke out between the North and South in April of 1861, John Arrell Johnson enlisted on July 21, 1861, as a private in the 4th Kansas Infantry, Company E.
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Each summer, the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter publishes photos of the summer recreation ball teams. This page is the second featuring Ellsworth teams.
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WILSON — A request by Kansas Foods owner and Wilson City Council member David Criswell for a wavier to raise more than two Nigerian dwarf goats on his property in downtown Wilson was denied July 6 at a meeting of the city body.
Read moreHOLYROOD — Along with the annual approval of appointments and policies and procedures, Monday’s meeting of the Central Plains USD 112 board of education was marked by the refusal to pay an invoice.
Read moreNicholas Florian of Ellsworth has accepted the Ellsworth County Commission’s offer to be the next director of the county EMS.
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