Opal Coakley’s son, Roger, visited her for a week. They visited in Franklin, Naponee and Oxford at Alumni Banquets over the Memorial Day weekend. In Oxford, they ate at the old school house, which is now a senior center, museum and meeting hall. Many memorable times.

Ilene Collins attended the Memorial for Bob Collins on Monday and attended the carry-in dinner at the Methodist Church. The June pot luck dinner was on Monday, June 7th with hostesses Joyce Utterback and Ruth Beck with Patriotic decorations.

Visitors of Jim and Ida Mae McBride a few days before Memorial Day were her aunt and cousin Charlene Adden and Tracy Adden of Lincoln. They had lunch out on Wednesday at a local restaurant. They were here especially to decorate graves for Memorial Day.

Three wheat variety plots will be the focus of field days coming for this area. K-State Research and Extension, Twin Creeks District and Kansas Wheat Alliance along with Larry and Brian Miller of Dresden and Roger May and Family of Oberlin and Gayle & Denton Haag will host several wheat tours.

Elwood Chamber of Commerce Yard of the Week! Congratulations to Kern and Mary Gydesen! Your yard looks fantastic!.

We are open to in-house meals and as long as our Gosper County numbers stay down we can remain open. We are following the guidelines that WCNAAA has suggested for our Center. Masks are optional. We will continue to do Home Delivery meals if you are homebound; Pick-up meals on need base only.

LINCOLN, Neb. – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will consider recommendations for a 2022 mountain lion hunting season, as well as a 2021 river otter harvest season, at its June 11 meeting in Chadron.

Our Redeemer Lutheran – Missouri Synod Elwood Pastor Michael Wolff ourredeemerelwood.com Friday, June 11: 9:00 a.m.-Exercise Group. Sunday, June 13: 10:00 a.m.- Worship.

Lexington – On June 9, 2021, Dawson Area Development’s Dawson Area Youth Leadership program will host a ceremony in Lexington at the Majestic Theatre to honor 12 youth for their successful completion of the program’s coursework and other requirements.

June (McCook, Neb.) — Weather permitting, a chip seal project will begin June 8 on N-23, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation. Chip seal is an application of an asphalt binder to a roadway surface followed by an aggregate.