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Wed
22
May

Fun Day

When the Run for the Soul Motorcycle Run rumbled out on June 20, 2000, it was an opportunity for Greg Garringer to see his vision beginning to come true.

Two years earlier, Garringer, a chaplain at Ellsworth Correctional Facility, and prison warden Ray Roberts wanted to build a Spiritual Life Center smack in the middle of the grounds. But there were obstacles standing in their way. The biggest of those was the estimated $1.2 million price tag to build the facility.

 

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Wed
15
May

Town to rock restored depot

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Vern Schepmann, left, and Don Siemsen helped with the renovation.

HOLYROOD — Don Siemsen was probably 9 years old when his grandfather treated the youngster to his first train ride.

The pair, along with Don’s brothers and cousins, boarded the train at the Santa Fe Depot in Holyrood and traveled round trip to tiny Galatia, about a four-hour journey.

 

 

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Wed
15
May

City talks runways and ballfields

Ellsworth has not received official word yet; however, city administrator Scott Moore fielded a telephone call Friday from the office of First District Congressman Roger Marshall.

According to the representative, the Ellsworth Municipal Airport will get a new runway and taxiway and they will be fully funded by the federal government. Otherwise, the city would have been responsible for 10 percent — or $900,000 — of the $9.1 million project.

 

 

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Wed
15
May

Ellsworth journalism students shine at State

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Courtesy Photo by Cady Hansen

Award winning student journalists are, from left, Parker McGowan, Shianne Svaty, Taylor Holecek, Courtney Wise and Selena Carrazco.

The Ellsworth Junior/Senior High School student publications department came away from the annual Kansas Scholastic Press Association’s State Journalism contest Saturday, May 4, in Lawrence with seven placings and a third place showing in the 2A sweepstakes competition.

Students and their awards were:

• Courtney Wise took first in advertising.

• Taking second place were Shianne Svaty in editorial cartoon, Taylor Holecek in yearbook layout and Parker McGowan in student life photography.

• Holecek also took third in newspaper design.

• Nabbing honorable mentions were Svaty in editorial writing and Selena Carrazco in yearbook sports writing.

Wed
15
May

ceremony.

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Paige Schoonmaker, a member of the Central Plains High School Class of 2019, smiles during Sunday afternoon’s graduation ceremony.

 

 

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Wed
08
May

CPMS in Bushton targeted for closure

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Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter

USD 112 school board vice president Tony Zink said closing a school is part of a process.

HOLYROOD — After months of speculation and discussion, the Central Plains USD 112 board of education finally targeted Central Plains Middle School in Bushton for closure.

The motion came during an April 30 special board meeting at Central Plains Elementary School in Holyrood.

 

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Wed
08
May

Drovers receives major state grant

For the second time in its 20-year history, the National Drovers Hall of Fame has received a major state grant to help restore downtown Ellsworth’s signature Insurance Building.

The award from the Heritage Trust Fund for $69,000 was announced this weekend on the foundation’s website. Drovers must match the grant with a little more than $16,000, bringing the total for this phrase of the project to more than $80,000.

 

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Wed
08
May

STEM class at EHS introduces students to the future of work

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Ellsworth Junior-Senior High School juniors, from left, Zach Griffith, Hayden Rogers and Cody Bourbon examine a robotic arm at Cashco. At the beginning of the second semester, EJSHS teacher Amy Johnson began teaching a new robotics class.

When spring semester enrollment started a few months ago, Ellsworth High School students Hayden Rogers, Cody Bourbon and Zach Griffith thought they were just signing up for a new class.

But weeks into the course now, the three are already realizing that what they’ve learned has been so much more than they ever expected.

 

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Wed
08
May

COLORS OF SPRING

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Leah Renfro of Ellsworth, closest to the camera, was one of several shopping for flowers recently at the Ellsworth FFA Greenhouse.

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Wed
01
May

Future of USD 112's Central Plains Middle School to be decided at May 21 special meeting

By Alan Rusch, Independent-Reporter

The Central Plains USD 112 Board of Education voted April 30 during a special meeting at Central Plains Elementary School in Holyrood, to proceed with a resolution to hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, at CEPS, on whether to close Central Plains Middle School in Bushton. The closing would take place beginning with the 2019-20 school year and beyond. Those students would be reassigned to CPES and Central Plains High School in Claflin.

At the end of the public hearing, the board will vote on whether to formally adopt the resolution and close CPMS.

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