Four local teams compete at Amherst Invite

Body Champ. Round 1 - Prestin Horwart (Southern Valley) 10-7 won by fall over Brett Mellies (Aurora ) 3-5 (Fall 1:06); Quarterfinal - Corbin Hoefer (Neligh-Oakdale) 16-5 won by major decision over Prestin Horwart (Southern Valley) 10-7 (MD 14-6); Cons.
Southwest’s Mitchel Stritt looks for a cradle.

Hi-Line girls fall to SEM, Maywood-Hayes Center

Body MAYWOOD - Battling through a tough stretch of contests, the Hi-Line girls basketball team dropped a pair fo road games last weekend to Sumner-Eddyville-Miller, 47-27, and Maywood-Hayes Center, 65-26. Hi-Line fell to 3-5 on the season.
Hi-Line’s Whitney Dickau glides in for a layup.

Arapahoe finshes third at DCS Invite

Body BENKELMAN - The Arapahoe wrestling team finished third at the 12-team Duundy County-Stratton Invite Friday, scoring 174 points. Rafe Hill led the Warriors with a first-place finish at 152 pounds while Grayson Koller (132) and Jacen Smith (285) each finished runner-up.

Bulls fall to Mustangs, Wolves

Body MAYWOOD - The Hi-Line boys basketball team was unable to erase a large deficit Thursday, then dropped another contest Saturday as it fell in both games last week to move to 3-5 this season.
The Bulls’ Treyton Evans fights for a loose ball that ends in a held ball.

Eagles win fourth-straight

Body BERTRAND - With a pair of clutch performances down the stretch, the Southern Valley boys basketball team earned its third- and fourthstraight victories last week, pushing past .500 for the first time this season at 5-4.
Southern Valley’s Tylor Grove battles for a rebound at Bertrand.

RICKIE L. STAGEMEYER

Body Rickie Lee Stagemeyer, age 66, a lifelong resident of Arapahoe, Nebraska passed away on Monday, January 2, 2023 at his home. He was born in Oxford, Nebraska on May 2, 1956 to Merle and Verna (Rader) Stagemeyer.
RICKIE L. STAGEMEYER

RICHARD "DICK" WRIGHT

Body Richard “Dick” Wright passed away on January 2, 2023 at Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center. He was 87 years old.
RICHARD "DICK" WRIGHT

THEONE I. WINKLER

Body Theone LuRae (Maaske) Winkler was born on April 21, 1929, in Phelps County, Nebraska, the youngest of two children born to Alton and Alma (Helms) Maaske. She was baptized in infancy at St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Bertrand.
THEONE I. WINKLER