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KANOPOLIS — An inquiry about vacating a street was heard at the June 9 meeting of the Kanopolis City Council.

With a passion for rural health care and putting people first, Ellsworth County Medical Center CEO Andrew Bair has helped ECMC uphold its commitment to improving lives since he took the helm a little more than a year ago.

Ellsworth Junior-Senior High School senior Jordyn Coonrod is the 2020 recipient of the Smoky Hill Chapter of the Daughter’s of the American Revolution Good Citizen scholarship. Coonrod is the daughter of Eric and Stephanie Coonrod.

Ellsworth High School’s Brenna Pruitt signs with Southeast Community College in Beatrice, Neb. to play softball next year. Her plans are to transfer after two years and study speech and language pathology at the university of Kansas. Pruitt is shown with her parents and coach Kenny Cravens.

Sitting in the choppy waters of the English Channel the day before D-Day, 20-year-old Private James R. Lambeth wondered what would happen on the beaches of Normandy. “We had no idea what we were getting into,” recalled Lambeth, a retired Illinois farmer.

The Ellsworth County District Court has a new clerk. Kristy Vattershell of Lyons introduced herself at Monday’s meeting of the county commissioners. Vattershell succeeds longtime clerk Peggy Svaty, who resigned recently to run for county magistrate judge.

WILSON — Wilson’s longtime city judge, Darrell Thrasher, was recognized for his many years of service Monday during a meeting of the Wilson City Council. Thrasher retired May 31 after serving since August 1991. “I enjoyed every bit of it,” Thrasher said.

A third case of Covid-19 has been confirmed in Ellsworth County.

Sitting in the choppy waters of the English Channel the day before D-Day, 20-year-old Private James R. Lambeth wondered what would happen on the beaches of Normandy. “We had no idea what we were getting into,” recalled Lambeth, a retired Illinois farmer.

In Matthew’s Gospel Jesus talks of teaching his Apostles; of getting them ready to do the work that will need to be done by them when he is no longer with them.