Monday, March 20 - Meatloaf Tuesday, March 21 - Beef & Noodles Wednesday, March 22 - Fried Chicken Thursday, March 23 - Hot Turkey Sandwich Friday, March 24 - Fish.

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CAMBRIDGE - The Cambridge Board of Education met Thursday over lunch to approve some additional board policies as well as a resignation while considering the 2023-24 master calendar. The first business item brought out a great deal of debate and conversation and, in the end, no action.

Cambridge, Nebraska, March 13, 2023 –As Spring begins to peak around the corner, preparations for the annual Medicine Creek Days celebration are in full swing. Coordinated by the Cambridge Area Chamber of Commerce, Medicine Creek Days features events and activities for every age group including the popular big wheel races, street dance, couples golf tournament and, the celebration’s flagship event, the downtown parade.

2/24/23-7:40 a.m. Oxford, NE: Deputies are investigating a report of abuse of a vulnerable adult in Oxford.

My colleagues and I on the Senate Agriculture Committee have already begun working on the 2023 Farm Bill, a package of critical agriculture legislation passed only once every five years. Those of us on the Agriculture Committee often agree on many aspects of the Farm Bill, and one of the most popular solutions we hope to implement this year is an increase in the accessibility of precision agriculture technologies.

They say curiosity killed the cat, but for me, I’m not so sure. With family in southeast Nebraska, boards that I serve on and activities that I cover almost constantly in Lincoln in Omaha, I spend a lot of time driving down I80 between York and Lincoln as well as Highway 81 from York down to Bruning. For all those trips - I’ve probably driven on these roads no less than 20 times in the past year - it’s unfashionable how often I witness a truly strange sight.

After 40 years as a doctor interacting with patients, in the last two and a half years the tables turned, and I’ve become the patient. Although most are good, I’ve found some doctors are detached, some are too quick, some would rather be somewhere else, some are even angry; but, when a physician who cares walks into the room, and I’m not exaggerating, the day becomes better, the pain becomes less, and hope fills my heart. Scientific knowledge is important, but the ability to convey honest concern, human thoughtfulness and compassion is equal in importance in this healing profession. So, how do we select premed students for that, or teach compassion in medical school?

The Elwood American Legion Post #290 and American Legion Auxiliary Unit #290 held their annual Birthday Banquet at the American Legion home in Elwood NE on Monday, March 6. Six veterans were recognized and honored for their service to our Nation with quilts from Prairie Quilt Guild members Marty Kleppinger and Kathy Beck of Elwood and Alice Erickson and Janet Kugler of Holdrege. Prairie Quilt Guild of Holdrege is a Chapter of the Quilts of Honor organization, which provided the quilts for the event. PQG members Marty Kleppinger and Kathy Beck made the quilts for the six veterans. Chapter Coordinators Alice Erickson and Janet Kugler also assisted with the presentations. The five veterans on hand for the presentation included Allen Schmeeckle, Dick Tobler, JB Houlden, Glenn Hofman and Keith Withers A sixth veteran, unable to attend the event, but honored with a patriotic quilt was R. Joe Marrs, Marine of Las Vegas NV.

OXFORD - The Village of Oxford Board of Trustees approved gifting a Village owned lot to the Oxford Community Food Pantry during their meeting on Monday, March 13, 2023. The resolution to give the lot to the pantry was approved after a public hearing for a variance permit for the property. The planning and zoning commission had a meeting and recommended the zoning variance which the Village Board approved. The lot for the new food pantry site is in R-1 zoning and the building will be used for nonresidential. The building that will go on the lot is a 16 x 50 foot pre-fabricated building. Pantry board members asked the Village if there were any stipulations. There was some discussion on footings and it was thought it would be a good idea to have them.