CAMBRIDGE - The Southwest girls basketball team saw its season come to a close Thursday in the Subdistrict finals as top-seeded Dundy County-Stratton dominated the fourth quarter to take down the Roughriders, 46-39, and advance to the district finals.

AMHERST - The postseason opener for the Arapahoe and Cambridge boys basketball teams was a rubber match between the two squads in the semifinals of the Subdistrict C2-10 Tournament in Amherst Tuesday.

Lincoln, Neb. -Beef feedlot managers, owners, employees and allied industries will learn new information related to feedlot management at Nebraska Extension’s 2021 Beef Feedlot Roundtables via webinar in March.

The Southern Valley cheer squad participated in the State Cheer Competition last weekend in Class C-2. The Eagles placed 4th out of 10 squads in the “Non-Tumbling” division and 4th of 8 in the “Game Day” division. Southern Valley cheerleaders include Graysen Langdale (12), Makayla Schoen (12), Brianna Russell (11), Elizabeth Meyers (11), Aubrey Brown (11), Ashlyn McAtee (11), Brenna Balderston (9), and Laurel Stalder (9).

CAMBRIDGE - According to local Covid-19 prescribers and vaccine administrators, the inclement weather in Texas halted vaccine shipments last week and set area inoculation schedules back at least one week.

Homerville Cemetery is a small cemetery located off the main highway 283 running north and south from Elwood to Arapahoe, Nebraska. A small road sign on the east side of highway 283 marks the turn to road 735 to find the cemetery.

The Oxford held discussion on the future of the post office at their regular meeting on Monday, February 15, 2021. Board Chairman Clint McQuiston reported to the board he had spoken with Lucy, the building owner and Dale at the post office in Alma. He told the board what Lucy had told him. She reported that she had fixed the furnace and the floor around the furnace. The floor in the bathroom has also been fixed. She reported that this was due to a water leak she had not been told about. She says the problems have gone from the furnace, to the bathroom and now to the entire floor as the floor was found to have asbestos. Someone was found that can apply a coating to seal the floor at a cost of $8,000. But the post office does not want this done and would like the floor replaced. This will cost about $20,000. McQuiston said she is willing to do the $8,000 coating but not spend another $20,000 on top of the $10,000 she has already spent in repairs. The owner also reported that the lease is currently void as it has expired and she has not received rent for two months.

We had a morning of floor debate on Tuesday this week, but we will not engage regularly in debate until Tuesday, March 2. We are doing our best to get through as many bills in committee as possible. The second week of March we will have morning floor debate followed by afternoon committee hearings and executive sessions as needed. The plan is to finish all committee hearings, other than Judiciary, by March 4th. Due to the number of bills referred to the Judiciary Committee, they will not finish up until March 12th.

I’ve learned a lot from my patients over the years. Sometimes, the lessons are learned as I walk beside them through struggles, both medical and non-medical. Sometimes, the lessons are explicitly stated, words of wisdom that stick with me through the years, and change the way I understand illness, or life in general.

I can hear it now. My grandpa repeating the same old story about how awful winters were when he was a kid. Oh...and it better be bad, bad weather if they were going to call off school. No snow days for a couple inches. No late starts. If you were late or didn’t get there, they went on without you. Then came that famous line that every grandpa tells.