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A $3 per month charge will be added to the City of Ellsworth utility bills in August to pay for stormwater drainage costs. First payments will be due in September.

Work on a two-block stretch of Wichita Avenue in Lorraine was discussed at Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County commissioners. Dale Houston, county road and bridge superintendent, said department employees have already repaired the pot holes in that area.

How to bring broadband internet access to more parts of Ellsworth County was a major topic of discussion at Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County commissioners.

KANOPOLIS — Six of 19 water samples collected in Kanopolis by Burns and McDonnell as part of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment drinking water protection program, have tested high for nitrates.

WILSON — The City of Wilson is getting a new website. At Monday’s meeting of the Wilson City Council, approval was given to a $1,396 per year proposal from Municipal One to design a new website for the city.

LORRAINE — Damage to the base of the city water tower was discussed during the July 15 meeting of the Lorraine City Council. Jessica Bowlby, city clerk, said three inspections found no structural damage to the water tower, but the concrete base sustained damage.

WILSON — A request by Kansas Foods owner and Wilson City Council member David Criswell for a wavier to raise more than two Nigerian dwarf goats on his property in downtown Wilson was denied July 6 at a meeting of the city body.

HOLYROOD — Along with the annual approval of appointments and policies and procedures, Monday’s meeting of the Central Plains USD 112 board of education was marked by the refusal to pay an invoice.

Nicholas Florian of Ellsworth has accepted the Ellsworth County Commission’s offer to be the next director of the county EMS. That announcement came at Monday’s meeting of the county commissioners. Florian will begin his duties Aug. 2. He is currently a captain in the Great Bend Fire Department.

Great Bend woman dies in Ellsworth County crash A 40-year-old Great Bend woman was killed and two others injured June 30 in a two-vehicle accident on Interstate 70 in Ellsworth County.