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Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth City Council began by recognizing the retirement of a well-known and dedicated law enforcement officer after 45 years of service.“It is my great honor to commemorate the retirement of Police Captain Kenny Bernard,” City Administrator Dustin Stambaugh said.

Ellsworth County Medical Center isn’t seeing many COVID inpatients, but continues to see a few COVID patients coming to the emergency room and clinic.That was the word Chief Executive Officer Jim Kirkbride had for the hospital board April 19 during the monthly meeting.

Festivities to mark the historic anniversary plannedEllsworth’s historic cowtown days were recalled Saturday during a cold and blustery afternoon dedication of a historic maker at W. North Street and Colorado Street — the site of the Kansas Pacific Railway stock yards.

At Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County commissioners, the subject of wage increases for county employees in 2024 was broached during a meeting with department heads.County Attorney Paul J. Kasper said the commissioners will have their work cut out for them in making a decision.

WILSON — At Monday’s meeting of the Wilson City Council, a request for an animal wavier by David Criswell of Kansas Foods, LLC and developer of Mountains on the Prairie and Kansas Mountain Goats, for 720 16th St., died for lack of a motion.

KANOPOLIS — Abatement hearings topped the agenda April 11, before the regular meeting of the Kanopolis City Council began.Property owner Kathy Sneath wanted to know what the council was complaining about now regarding her property, saying there are worse places in town.

CLAFLIN — Parents of students in grades 7-12 in Wilson and Dorrance who, for the past many months, have been desperately searching for a path forward to educate their children, may now have a new glimmer of hope.

Members of the USD 327 Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District Monday night looked ahead to the Nov. 7 general election and unanimously approved a resolution redrawing district position boundaries. The action, the result of the 2020 Census, equalizes population numbers.

Ellsworth County commissioners learned a bit more about wind farms, payment- in-lieu-of-taxes and donation agreements Monday during a meeting with Ellsworth native Josh Svaty.

E at healthily? Check. Get aerobic exercise? Check. Do strength training? Not so much.Loss of muscle mass can slip up on us without warning. At some point, we realize we can’t do the things we used to, but also don’t know how to counter the process.