When you shop local, you’re making a personal investment in your neighborhood and community. In fact, for every $100 spent, roughly $68 to $73 of it returns to local activity.

The Furnas County 4-H Council would like to send a huge THANK YOU to all area businesses that contributed prizes for the raffle. 540 prizes were collected from the following businesses: Adam’s Construction, Amateurs Bar and Grill, American Butchers, Anew, ATC, Banner Capital Bank, BD Show Pigs, Beaver Bar & Grill, Beaver City Public Library, Beaver City Manor, Becker Bros. Feed, Besler Industries, Big Cob Blooms and Collectibles, Cambridge Body Shop, Cambridge General Store Casey’s General Store, Channel Seed, City of Arapahoe, Cobblestone Inn and Suites, CountyLine Seed, Cribelli Physical Therapy, Curlz by Darcy, D & D Services, DA Soil Sampling, Dale Helms, Insurance, Day and Night, DeVries Furniture, Doake Law, Donovans Smokeshack, Eisenhart Law Office, Extreme Ag, Faw’s Motor Company, First Central Bank, First State Bank, First State Insurance, Flyaway Market, Fox Insurance, Gary Thompson Agency, Gary’s, Hair by Megs, Hemelstrands, Ho Jos Hideaway, Hometown Agency, Hunt Farms, Hunt Trenchard Club Lambs, Husker Hardware, Huxall Seed - Hoegemeyer, Image Tech & Printing, Joe’s Package Drive In, Kaufman Trailers, Kelley’s Supermarket, Koeperich Seeds, Laborie Landworks, Landmark Implement, Linners Lil’ Barn Pumpkin Patch, Local Roots, Lockenour-Jones, Lucky R, Mark Farr, Marks Pharmacy and Arapahoe Pharmacy, Medicine Creek Industries, MNB Insurance and Realty, NAPA, Nutrien, Oxford Locker, Oxford Supermarket, PSI Application, Shafer’s Unique Gifts and Coffee Shop, Shirley K’s South Central State Bank, Stalder Repair, Tornado Alley, Tri-Valley Health Systems, Twirly Bird Café, Village Mercantile, Wagners, Waypoint Bank, Weavers One Stop, Western Select Genetics, Yogi’s Body Shop.

Thank you for all the special birthday cards I received in the mail. Also, thank you to everyone who came to my party.

Rosalie “Rose” Desmond formerly of McCook passed away at the Good Samaritan Society in Oberlin, KS on Monday April 3, 2023. Friends may leave online condolences at herrmahhfh.

We would like to thank all the surrounding area volunteer fire departments and area farmers with their fire fighting equipment to put out the vacant farmstead fire south of Wilsonville. A very special thanks to all the people that reported the fire and called it in. Ila Potter Family Trust D&D Palmer Farms

Farmers National Company, the nation’s leading farm and ranch management company, is pleased to announce that Kaleb Huxoll of Hendley, Nebraska, has joined the company as a professional farm manager and licensed real estate salesperson.

Columbus, Neb. – As severe weather season approaches, Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) reminds customers to be aware of the dangers of downed powerlines.

Guests at southwest Nebraska state park areas were treated to some improvements in 2022, with more set to be completed in 2023. The following is a roundup of those improvements and projects: Enders Reservoir State Recreation Area A $1 million boating access project was completed in 2022 to the Area A and No Name Bay boat ramps at Enders Reservoir State Recreation Area near Enders. Area A improvements include an extended boat ramp and a parking area that now is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Other new additions are a breakwater to protect the ramp, staging area near the ramp, and a gravel parking lot with lighting. At No Name Bay, improvements include upgrading the existing primitive ramp to two lanes of concrete and installing an ADA-compliant parking pad, kayak launch, breakwaters and parking facility with lighting.

March 31, 2023 (Lincoln, Neb.) — The Nebraska Board of Examiners for County Highway and City Street Superintendents will meet on April 7, at 8:45 a.m., at the Nebraska Department of Transportation Central Headquarters Building Room 103, 1500 Nebraska Parkway, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Holdrege, Neb.) – About 80 individuals attended The ABCs of Child Care conference March 25 at the Phelps County Ag Center in Holdrege. They were able to attend sessions on brain-wise strategies that can have a meaningful impact on children, conflict resolution with adults, teaching conflict resolution to children, and dreaming stress away.