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As stay-at-home orders were issued and schools announced they would be moving online in light of the coronavirus pandemic, Wilson Communications moved to ensure that students who didn’t previously have access to the internet from their homes would have free access so that they could continue their...

In reaction to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many events and activities have been either cancelled or postponed — both here and across the nation. One of those is the National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive conducted annually in May. It has been postponed until further notice.

For Ignatius Rodriguez and his staff of more than three dozen at Gene’s Heartland Foods, the past three weeks have been like nothing they have ever experienced.

On April 7, Ellsworth County reported its first case of COVID-19. However, that report was reversed minutes later. Kerianne Ehrlich, supervisor of the county health department, gave a brief review on that reversal at the April 9 meeting of the county’s local emergency planning committee.

Only a day after Ellsworth County commissioners approved a month-long countywide burn ban, commissioners reversed themselves and rescinded the ban.

From the files of the August 4, 1988 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter. 142 YEARS AGO August 8, 1878 Last week a man was drowned in attempting to cross the Saline near Lincoln Centre. He was returning home from Ellsworth where he had been with a load of wheat. One of his horses was also drowned.

This is an extraordinary Easter. Did you attend a virtual service hosted in another city? Perhaps you drove to a service and never got out of your car. Instead of your Easter finest, did you lounge in comfy clothes all day? Christians found new and extraordinary ways to celebrate Easter.

A 63-year-old Ellsworth woman was killed April 1, in a one-vehicle accident south of Wilson. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, at 6:25 a.m. April 1, Janice A. Perkins was driving north on 105th Road in a 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee. For unknown reasons, at Ave.

HOLYROOD — Central Plains USD 112 board members approved a continuous learning plan April 2 at a special meeting that was available to patrons on the district website. The plan — the result of the Gov.

Ellsworth High School senior Hayden Rogers is among 10 students to receive Hansen Leader of Tomorrow scholarships. The college awards are for $10,000 and may be renewed for three additional years, as long as Rogers maintains a 3.00 or better grade point average.