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07
Apr

Misdemeanor juvenile offender complaints to be filed locally in Great Bend bus incident

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Shepack

This statement was released Thursday by Ellsworth County Attorney Joe Shepack. It concerns the investigation involving several members of the Great Bend swimming as they traveled by bus through Ellsworth County on their way home from a meet at Manhattan. Pick up a copy of the April 14 edition of the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter for further information.

Thu
07
Apr

Early morning fire in Holyrood

HOLYROOD — A flue on a wood-burning stove was the source of an early Thursday morning fire at 104. West Olds in Holyrood.

Members of the Holyrood Fire Department responded at 11:57 p.m. Wednesday and extinguished the fire by 1:30 a.m. Thursday.

Holyrood fire chief Mark Breford estimated damage to the structure at about $10,000. No injuries were reported. 

Wed
06
Apr

Ag economy furloughs Great Plains

By Joseph Hand
 
Great Plains Manufacturing plans to close the doors to its Ellsworth plant for four weeks beginning April 11. The decision comes as sluggish commodity markets in the United States and abroad fall to some of their lowest levels in the past decade, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
 
Wed
06
Apr

Match Madness

By LINDA MOWERY-DENNING
 
For the past three years, volunteers with the Smoky Hills Charitable Foundation and its related funds have made themselves available for Match Madness, a oneday event to encourage donations to organizations and programs within Ellsworth County. The foundation raised $51,653 in 2014 and $57,107 in 2015. “I’m hoping we keep going up,” said Sara Soukup, foundation chairman.
 
Wed
06
Apr

NUISANCE NEIGHBORS

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More than 100 turkey vultures have claimed the trees in the draw behind Leon and Debbie Jacobs’ home on Blake Street in Ellsworth as a summer roosting area. The vultures, which are considered a protected species, spend their days at the water tower near the old Ellsworth County Hospital. They return to the Jacobs’ backyard at about 7 p.m. or a little later. Debbie Jacobs recently attended a meeting of the Ellsworth City Council to gather support for her plan to have the vultures relocated by a wildlife specialist from Kansas State University.
 
Wed
06
Apr

Who’ll start the rain?

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By Joseph Hand
 
It may look as if the winter weather is gone for good, but state climatologist Mary Knapp says we shouldn’t be too surprised to see another snow flurry or two before the end of April. When it comes to Kansas weather, Knapp knows better than to deal in certainties. Even though another snowfall still lurks around every corner, it doesn’t seem like Ellsworth County experienced much of a winter. “Winter time is really never a time when we get very much moisture anyway,” Knapp said. “But during April through September we get over 70 percent of the year’s moisture.” Ellsworth County received only .34-inch of moisture during March, bringing its year-to-date total to 1.63 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
 
Wed
06
Apr

Workers free trapped man

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Marquette EMS was paged out at 11:40 a.m. Friday, March 25, to 758 Pioneer Road, McPherson County Feeders, to a report of a person trapped in a grain bin filled with feed pellets for cattle. Employee Allan Sents was responsive and talking to rescuers throughout the incident. A paramedic was lowered into the bin to get vitals. There were at least two other emergency personal with the trapped person throughout the rescue.

 

Wed
30
Mar

Commissioners stall ecodevo plan

BY LINDA MOWERY-DENNING 

Monday morning’s public hearing on an economic development plan to attract new business to Ellsworth ended in silence as a motion to approve the amendment died for lack of a second. Ellsworth County commission chairman Kermit Rush offered a motion following about an hour of discussion and debate to add “Plan E” to the City of Ellsworth’s Neighborhood Revitalization Plan.

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Wed
30
Mar

Weed Warriors

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BY MARK McCOY 

Mary Powell, of Hunter, pursues her entrepreneurial dream by combining her love of goats with their natural tendency to eat unwanted foliage. Barnyard Weed Warriors is a business designed to naturally eradicate problem vegetation areas without the use of herbicides.

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Wed
30
Mar

Stan Herd to speak at Wilson

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Internationally known Kansas crop artist Stan Herd will be the speaker April 9 at the 27th annual meeting of the Post Rock Opportunities Foundation. For the past 25 years, the foundation has operated Kansas Originals Market & Gallery, north of Wilson, a store that features the products of Kansas artists, crafters and food producers.

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