During this second session of the 107th Legislature, I have introduced twelve bills and one proposed constitutional amendment. Additionally, I have cosponsored several other bills from other senators that I believe deserve to be debated on the legislative floor, and ultimately passed. Here are highlights of a few of those bills.

ARAPAHOE – Even with gas prices escalating, Calvin Pemberton and his wife, Nancy, made a quick trip to the nation’s capital earlier this month and plan to make the 1,392.9-mile trek again on April 1.

10 years ago Rachelle Clason of Beaver City, Marcia Foley, and Nathan Goshert of Arapahoe are making plans to go to Africa in July to help Missionaries Brad and Ellie Harris with their Bible School program. NEA’s Read Across America was celebrated last Thursday morning with the Arapahoe sixth grade reading to Kindergarten class.

10 years ago Seventeen firefighters from Cambridge and others from Arapahoe, Edison, and Bridgeport attended a Wildland Fire Tactics Training course Saturday in Cambridge. 20 years ago Dave Houghtelling stops in at the new Medicine Creek Bank on Monday morning.

10 years ago Brittany Fattig, Tandia Remmenga, Brittany Kussman, Mikaila Smith, and Taylor Gydesen participated in the Women in Science Conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsored by the Nebraska’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. Top five student spellers at the 2012 Gosper County Speiling Bee were Amber Nelson, Paige Arnold, Clara Lauby, Katie Klein, and Aaron Clouse.

10 years ago Bartley Village Board president Jim Morris revealed that after interviews last Monday, the board had hired Ronni Harding to be new Bartley Village Clerk. At an Indianola City Council meeting the board purchased two solar powered flashing speed limit signs at a cost of $12,010 each.

100 Years Ago March 16, 1922 Rev. Jas.