Ellsworth County News

Pat Strecker was asleep on a couch when the tornado shredded her modular home, breaking and bruising her 76-year-old body.

A woman in her early 70s was asleep on a couch Friday night when a tornado rumbled through, destroying the moduler home she was in.

Editor's Note - This was the graduation speech given May 20 at Ellsworth High School by Alexis Shepack.

Ellsworth County commissioner Kermit Rush talks with retired teacher Gerry Gebhardt before the start of a public information meeting May 14 on a bond issue for the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District.

Fire destroyed the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6485 Friday morning in downtown Ellsworth, but firefighters were able to contain the blaze.

For the second time in less than a year, a major fire struck downtown Ellsworth, this time leaving the town's VFW building little more than a limestone shell.