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Gov. Laura Kelly has issued a Stay at Home Order effective at 12:01 a.m. Monday, March 30 and lasts through April 19. More details to come.

A Safer at Home Order has been issued by the Ellsworth County Health Officers. The order goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday, March 30.

KANOPOLIS — Kanopolis city hall will be closed to the public effective immediately as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus. That was the decision made by the Kanopolis City Council March 18 during a special meeting.

KANOPOLIS — A resolution to extend the maturity date of the temporary notes issued this past March for the city water project was approved March 10 by the Kanopolis City Council during the monthly council meeting. The notes carry dates of March 26,2002 to June 1, 2020.

The Ellsworth City Council approved several Covid-19-related measures Monday night during a meeting conducted via digital communications software.

The world is changing — at least temporarily — and Ellsworth County businesses are changing with it. As a service to those businesses and Ellsworth County residents, I-R staffers spent recent days on the phone to learn about their status in the wake of Covid-19.

Central Plains USD 112 Superintendent Greg Clark had encouraging news for the district’s parents and students March 20, during a special board meeting at Central Plains Elementary School in Holyrood. Academic instruction — although in a different form — will begin again Monday, March 30.

Most years, the children of Kanopolis would gather in the city park for an egg hunt to celebrate Easter. Unfortunately, this is not most years.

“He will rescue you from the fowler’s snare, from the destructive plague. “You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, Nor the plague that prowls in the darkness, Nor the pestilence that destroys at noon. Yes, you, Lord, are my refuge.

Traffic (Note: Traffic cases resolved between March 11, 2020 to March 18, 2020. Fines include a $108 docket fee.) JUDGMENT ON PLEA OF GUILTY — Richard Scott Anschutz, speeding, $171. Charles Ryan Atchison, speeding, $165. Christina Ann Betzner, speeding, $183.