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Members of the Krizek Park Advisory Committee heard informally from an engineer May 31 during their second meeting at Ellsworth City Hall about the feasibility of backfilling the south detention basin and planting grass.

Arequest for funds to repave a halfmile section of Fourth Road east of Wilson to the old missile silo was denied by the Ellsworth County Commissioners Monday.

WILSON — At Monday’s meeting of the Wilson City Council, Hunter Throop, general manager of the Midland Railroad Hotel properties in Wilson and member of the city’s transient guest tax committee, gave several suggestions on how to spend the money in that fund.

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SPECIAL TO THE I-RDr. Paige Dodson was at Ellsworth Correctional Facility May 18 to honor 11 staff members for their heroic efforts performed March 15 at the prison.Specifically, the team of correctional officers and nurses administered CPR and other lifesaving measures to a resident at ECF.

During a 30-minute special meeting May 25 at Ellsworth City Hall, members of the Ellsworth City Council discussed how to conduct the evaluation for City Administrator Dustin Stambaugh.The evaluation is scheduled to take place in August.

More 2024 budget requests were received by the Ellsworth County Commission Monday at their weekly meeting.The Ellsworth County Council on Aging submitted a request for 2024 of $32,800 — 2.5 percent ($800) more than the $32,000 it received for 2023.

The number of patients being treatment at Ellsworth County Medical Center dropped between March and April.According to information presented at a rather short May 17 meeting of the hospital board, the number of inpatient days dropped from 82 days in March down to 42 in April.

141 YEARS AGO May 25, 1882The windmill at the well on Main Street in front of J. Beebe’s store has been repaired and is now running regularly.A number of our citizens have purchased telephones, which they will have erected between their residences and places of business.

BUNKER HILL — In 1990, Wilson’s KC Withers was in the U.S. Army attached to the 101st Airborne Division. He served in both phases of the Gulf War — Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.