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Richard J. Hinton crossed into the “promised land” of Kansas on Aug. 7, 1856.
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It will be the Cowtown that almost wasn’t.
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It’s impossible to interview Dorothy Grothusen without learning something about the history of Ellsworth County.
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Garnell Hanson tells friends she retired four times — just don’t ask her when.
For years, she worked for the Ellsworth Reporter, then the Ellsworth County Independent, then the Independent-Reporter and again for the I-R.
The Ellsworth Reporter — now the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter — has had a long and distinguished history of serving Ellsworth and Ellsworth County for the past 150 years.
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