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Andrew Bair, chief executive officer at the Ellsworth County Medical Center, had some good news during the April 9 meeting of the county’s local emergency planning committee. He said two new things are beginning to be started at the hospital.

The Central Plains School Board Monday night approved giving the Farmer’s Township Library 60 days written notice that they have to vacate the former Bushton school by June 30.

HOLYROOD — Central Plains USD 112 Superintendent Greg Clark praised all those involved in the district’s online learning effort at Monday’s remote meeting of the district’s board of education at Central Plains Elementary School in Holyrood. “I couldn’t be more proud,” Clark said.

Thank you and good job. Those were the words used most often Monday night by Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School Board members and superintendent Dale Brungardt during the board’s monthly meeting in the commons of EJSHS and via Zoom.

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after Ellsworth County commissioners approved a month-long countywide burn ban, commissioners reversed themselves and rescinded the ban.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