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The Central Plains USD 112 board of education will conduct a special board meeting at 6 p.m. Friday, March 20, at Central Plains Elementary School in Holyrood.

From the files of the November 28, 1991 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter. 139 YEARS AGO December 1, 1881 Don’t forget to pay your taxes. Hammond Atwood is now the clerk at the Grand Central Hotel in this city. He will make a popular clerk or we miss our guess.

Proverbs 22:28 says, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefathers (NIV).” This is a warning that I think we desperately need to look at in the church today.

Traveling 12 Card Club The Traveling 12 Card Club met at 7 p.m. Feb. 24 at the home of Lucille Janda. Winning Hi was Margaret Stadelman, Lo was Alice Killian and Traveling was Jeannie Thrasher.

March is here and we have almost blown through it. Hard to believe we are in the middle of spring break. But I’m ready for the beautiful outdoor weather, are you? Think about it ... Lying in a hammock reading a good book clouds floating lazily by. Doesn’t that sound like heaven?

Grain prices mostly down for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, March 16, were: Wheat, bu. — $3.89, down 17 cents from March 9. Milo, bu. — $3.10, down 13 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $7.27, down 45 cents. Corn, bu. — $3.22, down 18 cents.

A briefing on preparations to combat the coronavirus topped the agenda during Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County commissioners. Kerianne Ehrlich, county health supervisor, said first and foremost, don’t panic. “Use your common sense,” she said. “If you are sick, stay home.

The Pedals for Progress program at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility is going gangbusters, according to Sgt. Phillip DeCouteau.

• Ellsworth County Medical Center has the ability to test for the flu and the coronavirus. Those with symptoms listed below will be tested for the flu first, then the coronavirus if tnecessary. The results of the flu test take an hour.

Ellsworth County is beginning to feel the squeeze as reaction to the coronavirus continues to spread. At Gene’s Heartland Foods, the shelves which ordinarily are home to a supply of toilet paper are bare, and sanitary wipes and other sanitary supplies are in short supply.