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No action was taken by the Ellsworth County Medical Center board of directors Nov. 17, after a 15-minute executive session to discuss non-elected personnel (individual, unvaccinated employees).

EMS get Western Coop grant The Ellsworth County EMS recently received a $1,000 grant from the Western Cooperative Electric’s Sharing Success Fund to help fund construction of a new training room.

WILSON — The slow but steady process of considering what the future Central Plains USD 112 might look like continued Nov. 16 during a special meeting at Wilson School.

A team from National Catastrophe Restoration, Inc. will make a presentation Monday, Dec. 13, to the Ellsworth City Council on the former Veteran’s Memorial Hospital.

Bob Fredrickson of Ellsworth voiced concerns at the Nov. 22 meeting of the Ellsworth County commission on the lack of public attendance at meetings dealing with the Ellsworth County Comprehensive Plan.

The idea of moving the fourth grade at Ellsworth Elementary School to Kanopolis Middle School could, perhaps, soon gain some traction.

There was good news and bad news to share during Monday night’s regular Ellsworth City council meeting.The good — water terminations for unpaid water bills for November will be moved back until Monday, Nov. 29.

The Ellsworth County commissioners approved a letter of support Monday to Post Rock Rural Water District’s application for a $264,700 hazard mitigation grant to replace one mile of 10-inch water line near Wilson.

WILSON — Mayor Mike Peschka broke a 2-2 tie Monday, to deny a request by David Criswell, owner of Kansas Foods, LLC, for a waiver of the animal ordinance to keep no more than 20 (7 adult female and 13 juvenile) Nigerian dwarf goats at 720 26th Street on thewest edge of Wilson.