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Ellsworth County Medical Center’s Andrew Bair said Friday that local efforts to curve the spread of Covid-19 have brought out the worst and the best in people.

The Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter is asking subscribers to provide e-mail addresses to the I-R.

Children and adults experience and react differently in times of crisis.

From the files of the December 5, 1991 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter. 139 YEARS AGO December 8, 1881 B.D. Rice is hauling the sugar cane he purchased from the Sugar company to his cheese factory east of the city, and will use it as feed for his cattle.

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.