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And that is just what students at Ellsworth Junior-Senior High School plan to do this year as they prepare for the fall play. Director Traci Sallman has been doing this for nine years.

Brian Bontrager considers the moment this past September when he picked a small piece of metal out of the ground “divine intervention.” At the time, the Ellsworth man was standing in a lonely pasture five miles southeast of Talihina, in southeast Oklahoma.

More than 70 years ago, Jim Bezemek, a farm boy from Ellsworth County, witnessed the definition of man’s inhumanity to man as he and his fellow soldiers from the United States Army’s 79th Division helped liberate the Nazi’s infamous Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in the Spring of 1945.

Ellsworth will have two new members on its city council following Tuesday’s general election. The top vote getter for three open seats on the council was Jessica Kootz with 334. She was followed by Darcy Hansen, 271 votes, and incumbent Wayne Scritchfield, with 286 votes.

ELLSWORTH Lunches for people age 60 or older are a suggested donation of $3.50 and under 60 are $5.25 (exact change). Reservations may be made by calling by 9 a.m. the day before the meal. Call Ellsworth at (785) 472-5185.

Grain prices mixed for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, Nov. 4, were: Wheat, bu. — $3.83, up 6 cents from Oct. 28. Milo, bu. — $3.16, down 3 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $8.06, up 2 cents. Corn, bu. — $3.53, down 1 cents.

Insurance group recognizes Wilborn The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has named Sen. Rick Wilborn, R-Kan., as the association’s State Legislator of the Year.

WILSON — A discussion concerning the recruitment of a new attendant for the city burn pile topped the agenda Monday during a meeting of the Wilson City Council. Mayor Larry Ptacek said city employee Steve Ford took the job as attendant recently, but doesn’t know if he can continue it.