Baseball and softball are in full swing for area teams.

Emily Whipple, the Agricultural Education Instructor at Ainsworth Community Schools, was awarded the Outstanding Early Career Teacher Award by the Nebraska Agricultural Educators Association (NAEA) at the NAEA Awards Ceremony held on June 7th at the Nebraska Career Education Conference.

The Southern Valley Board of Education met on Monday, June 12 at 7:30 pm. They approved the consent agenda.

Members of the Golden Generation Center Board were in attendance at the Village of Oxford Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, June 12 to discuss assistance with utilities. They told the board they serve about 40 meals each day as well as getting to check in on many people when delivering meals.

Don Sackett presents Macy Jones with her certificate for the Central Nebraska Senior Golf Association $1000 Scholarship. Jones attended Cambridge Public Schools and qualifi ed for State Golf all four years of high school, placing 7th or 8th in District V competition three times.

Furnas County 4-H Shoot was held on April 22nd, 2023 at the Arapahoe Izaak Walton facility.

Big Power Day took place at the Beaver City Public Library on Friday, June 9, showing kids different vehicles used for jobs in the community.

(Grand Island, Neb.) – About 280 new and returning students have received scholarships for the 2023-24 academic year at Central Community College in Grand Island, Holdrege, Kearney and Lexington. They are: Academic Opportunity Scholarship: CAMBRIDGE: Chad Taylor. EDISON: BriAllen Soncksen.

Lexington Area Christian Women’s Connection will meet on Tuesday, June 20th at Kirk’s at 6:30 p.m. It is also Men’s Night. Speaker is Gayle Haas of Aurora, Illinois. Her program is titled A Visit With Corrie Ten Boom. It is about a Dutch Holocaust survivor who helped Jews escape the Nazi regime.

(Grand Island, Neb.) – Central Community College has announced the names of full-time students who earned spots on the President’s and Dean’s honor lists for the 2023 spring semester.