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It will be the Cowtown that almost wasn’t.
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It’s impossible to interview Dorothy Grothusen without learning something about the history of Ellsworth County.
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Garnell Hanson tells friends she retired four times — just don’t ask her when.
For years, she worked for the Ellsworth Reporter, then the Ellsworth County Independent, then the Independent-Reporter and again for the I-R.
The Ellsworth Reporter — now the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter — has had a long and distinguished history of serving Ellsworth and Ellsworth County for the past 150 years.
Read moreA 56-year-old Bushton man has been killed and an Ellsworth County Sheriff deputy seriously injured by buffalo during a span of two days in Ellsworth County.
Read moreDuring its more than century of existence, Ellsworth County has experienced such extraordinary events as fires, floods and cattle drives and such individual milestones as weddings, births and graduations.
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Fire gutted a garage, but no injuries were reported during an Aug. 4 blaze at 221 N. Court Ave. in Ellsworth.
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Saline County authorities have charged a suspect in the murder of 44-yearold Nathan Thompson, whose body was found July 19 in an Ellsworth County field.
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