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Members of the Ellsworth City Council voted unanimously Monday night to authorize city administrator Rusty Varnado to sign a consulting agreement aimed at the eventual demolition of the former Ellsworth County hospital building.However, the agreement, which will include a cost estimate on tearing...

Bob Fredrickson of Ellsworth had several comments for Ellsworth County commissioners Monday as a follow-up to the discussion he had with them at an earlier commission meeting.He started with the idea of a county administrator.

No action was taken by the Ellsworth County Medical Center board of directors Nov. 17, after a 15-minute executive session to discuss non-elected personnel (individual, unvaccinated employees).In the agenda distributed before the meeting, however, the agenda said “discussion of nonelected...

EMS get Western Coop grant The Ellsworth County EMS recently received a $1,000 grant from the Western Cooperative Electric’s Sharing Success Fund to help fund construction of a new training room.

WILSON — The slow but steady process of considering what the future Central Plains USD 112 might look like continued Nov. 16 during a special meeting at Wilson School.Superintendent Greg Clark said the district’s steering committee of four teachers from Wilson Junior-Senior High School and four...

A team from National Catastrophe Restoration, Inc. will make a presentation Monday, Dec. 13, to the Ellsworth City Council on the former Veteran’s Memorial Hospital.

Bob Fredrickson of Ellsworth voiced concerns at the Nov. 22 meeting of the Ellsworth County commission on the lack of public attendance at meetings dealing with the Ellsworth County Comprehensive Plan.“I’ve had a lot of experience from beginning to end on comprehensive plans, strategic plans,” said...

The idea of moving the fourth grade at Ellsworth Elementary School to Kanopolis Middle School could, perhaps, soon gain some traction.“We will continue to look at that — the pros and cons — and come up with some options and plans that would be available if we were to choose to move the fourth grade...

There was good news and bad news to share during Monday night’s regular Ellsworth City council meeting.The good — water terminations for unpaid water bills for November will be moved back until Monday, Nov. 29.