Thank you for your reply. It worked after I opened port 3001 on my router to access this page. Can this block explorer be used as a server to allow electrum to update? OR, can the balance be swept with this block explorer? I need to move funds from the paper wallet. Thanks.
The original/official ZCL electrum servers have gone offline. There is a community-driven effort to keep things moving for ZCL - the ZClassic Community Edition team (see posts by 'nimbosa' elsewhere) has worked pretty hard to keep the lights on.
https://twitter.com/ZclassicDev/status/979538343204564992 shows that you can add server "electrum.zclassic.community" and port "50002" in your ZCL Electrum settings and everything will start working again.
I would think you'd see your original ZCL balance at that point.
Wetblanket, that is great info! I was up and running in 20 seconds. Do you happen to have a ZCL public address where I can send a tip?