Ramona Irene Anderson, 92, of North Platte, went home to her heavenly maker on Sunday, September 26, 2021. Ramona was born on October 25, 1928 in Arapahoe, NE to Willard M. and Irene Houghtaling Baxter. She grew up in Arapahoe and graduated from Arapahoe High School with top honors in 1947.

Gary A. Remmenga, 53, of Minden passed away on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at Bryan East Medical Center in Lincoln. Funeral services were held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at Minden United Methodist Church with the Rev. Peter Choi officiating. (Nebraska Husker attire preferred).

Richard L. Wolzen, son of Edwin (Swede) Wolzen and Glenva (Martin) Wolzen was born February 25, 1947 at McCook, Nebraska and passed away on September 27, 2021 at his home in Belleville, Kansas at the age of 74 years, 7 months and 2 days.

Mary was born on November 1st, 1939, to Jay and Doris (Meisner) Ruppert, in Quick, Neb., and passed September 28th, 2021, at the age of 29 and a half. (She quit counting after that!) Mary attended grade school in Quick.

Eldon C. Booker, 97 years of age, of Holdrege, Nebraska, died on Sunday, October 03, 2021, at the Phelps Memorial Health Center in Holdrege.

A Funeral Service for Verle L. Johnsen was held on Tuesday, October 5, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. at the St. John’s Lutheran Church in Wilcox, Nebraska, with Pastor Nathan Abel officiating. Interment followed at St. John’s Cemetery, south of Wilcox.

Dale Edward Allen, age 80, of Bartley, Neb., passed away at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital on Saturday, September 25, 2021. He was born on the family farm in Frontier County, Neb., what is now Trail 7 at Medicine Creek Reservoir, to Clarence and Eleanor (Anderson) Allen.

Imagine yourself in a blizzard so thick and cold and blinding that you could not see your hands right in front of you. Such blizzards were common 150 years ago on the upper great plains.

Nebraskans continue to tell me their top priority is relief from local government property taxes. Since taking office, addressing this issue has been my number one priority.

09/27/2021 Jacob Putnam of Oxford: Child Abuse, Preliminary Hearing October 22, 2021 @ 1:30 P.M. Rowdy Baxter: Sexual Assault of a child; Sexual Assault of a child; Preliminary Hearing October 22, 2021 @1:30 P.M.