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A volunteer firefighter sustained burns and four Ellsworth residents were without homes after a fire jumped from one residence to another late Saturday night.

This past week, organizers of the annual Kiwanis Club Home and Garden Show decided to follow the lead of the Ellsworth County Medical Center and Auxiliary and cancel the March 21 event as a health precaution.

In response to cornavirus concerns, Tony’s Pizza Events Center at Salina has postponed all gatherings through May 11 and is working to reschedule.

Jessie Kralik, left, and Shirley Deiser enjoy the pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage and biscuits and gravy Monday morning during the monthly Ellsworth American Legion breakfast.

Following an executive session at the March 9 meeting of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo USD 327 School District, board members accepted the resignations of Kanopolis Middle School principal Eric Stoddard and Danica Uhl and Susan Miller as fourth grade teachers.

Students from Central Plains Middle School, Claflin, competed March 6 at the LaCrosse Music Festival.

Ellsworth County commissioners took action Wednesday morning to help prevent the eventual spread of the coronavirus in Ellsworth County.  First, a resolution was approved declaring a verbal public health emergency in Ellsworth County.

Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District Superintendent Dale Brungardt said Tuesday that administrators and staff will work next week to plan the rest of the school year in the wake of an announcement earlier in the day that all Kansas school facilities will be closed for the remainder of the...

A7-year-old Ellsworth boy was found safe in a neighborhood home March 6 after a 75-minute early morning search of the area involving 30 first responders.