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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.

Ellsworth County Commissioners appear to be leaning towards a 3 percent increase in employee salaries for 2024. That was the overall direction indicated by commissioners at Monday’s meeting.

Ellsworth Mayor Dan Finnegan put a clarion call out for dedicated volunteers Monday during the Ellsworth City Council meeting to help save Ellsworth’s premier annual event — Cowtown Days.“Cowtown has been a challenge for three or four years,” said Finnegan, a member of the Cowtown Committee.

Signatures presented to the Ellsworth County Election Officer a week ago have been validated, and a special election will be held Aug. 1.The question on the ballot will read: “Shall the following be adopted?Shall USD 112 be disorganized pursuant to K.S.A.

Caps flew and tassles were airborn as 41 members of the Ellsworth High School Class of 2023 graduated Sunday.“As we leave Ellsworth High School, we’re all headed in different directions,” senior Aleyna Womelsdorf said.“Some of us will go on to college, some to trade school and some the workforce.

WILSON — The City of Wilson has selected a candidate to be its new police chief.At Monday’s meeting of the Wilson City Council, approval was given to offer James Reagan the full-time police chief job at a pay rate of $22 per hour.