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Patti Booher, center with grandson Matthew Guggisberg, is shown Friday during a retirement party at the Ellsworth Municipal Golf Course 900 Room. Booher served for 22 years as Ellsworth city clerk.

Kirkham Michael & Associates engineer Jon Halbgewachs presented an update on several construction projects at Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth City Council. He said a new conduit has been bored on the K-156/Eighth Street Turn Lane project, and fiber optic line has been strung.

Kerianne Ehrlich, supervisor of the Ellsworth County Health Department, voiced concerns about a possible spike in COVID-19 cases during Monday’s meeting of the Ellsworth County commissioners. “The Ellsworth Correctional Facility is seeing an increase in inmate cases,” Ehrlich told commissioners.

The Sept. 8 meeting of the Wilson City Council began with updates from the city’s board of health. Joshua Tipton, Wilson Police chief and head of the health board, said Western Sales Company has removed the violations from 2115 Ave. C.

LORRAINE — The Aug. 11 meeting of the Lorraine City Council began with a public hearing on the 2021 budget. Council member Peter Solie asked for explanation of the changes to the water and sewer funds.

Here's the latest COVID-19 update from the Ellsworth County Health Department: Ellsworth County COVID-19 Update Please note that we have had an increase in cases and even though many of them are associated within Ellsworth Correctional Facility, we still need to be using all necessary...

(First Published in the Ellsworth County Independent/ Reporter, September 24, 2020) NOTICE TO ALL WILSON TELEPHONE COMPANY CUSTOMERS The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently increased the amount needed to maintain the federal universal service fund.

At 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter and Ellsworth County Economic Development plan a candidate forum. The focus of the forum will be the Ellsworth County Commission contest between Greg Bender and Patrick Hoffman.

From the files of the June 14, 1984 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter. 136 YEARS AGO June 12, 1884 The second annual commencements of the Ellsworth High School.

“Justice Ginsburg represented the best of the American tradition, the best of a devotion to the American experiment ... She believed in the journey toward a more perfect union.