A Card Shower is being requested in honor of Opal Coakley who will be celebrating her 103rd Birthday on September 4, 2023! Please send your card to her at: Opal Coakley c/o Beaver City Manor PO Box 70 Beaver City, NE 68926

I would like to kindly thank all area Firemen and Firefighters. I would especially like to thank Mr.

Thelma Ann Riepe-Sprague who was raised in the Arapahoe area along with her cousin Barbara Ann Wendland- Maaske. Both will be turning 90 years old. Thelma Ann is the last of the George and Thelma Riepe family.

CAMBRIDGE - Since the Cambridge Volleyball Invite expanded to pool play three years ago, Cambridge and Southwest have matched up in the championship game each time. On Saturday, the Trojans and Roughriders both dominated pool play before Southwest got the better of Cambridge in the finals and took its first tournament title at the event.

CURTIS - Last Thursday’s meet at Medicine Valley marked the beginning of the 2023 Cross Country team for Hi-Line, Medicine Valley, and Southern Valley. The girls placed six in the top 15: Tayley Becker of Southern Valley, Olivia Wall of Hi-Line, Whitney Page of Hi-Line, Kara Brockman of Hi-Line, Lilly Palmer of Hi-Line, and Dallas Weitzel of Hi-Line.

The Maywood/Hayes Center football team got off to a slow start Thursday in Sutherland, but the Wolves claimed a win in the first game of the season 26-22. Facing a brand new head coach for the Sailors, MHC Head Coach Jeff Erickson said the Wolves had no clue what to expect from Sutherland.

Larry “Newk” Keith Newcomb of Minden, Nebraska passed away Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at the age of 58 at Kearney Regional Medical Center, Kearney, Nebraska. Funeral services was held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, August 28, 2023 at Minden United Methodist Church with the Rev. Peter Choi offi ciating. The service was streamed to the church’s Facebook and YouTube pages. Interment was held following the service at the Upland Cemetery.

A funeral service for Nancy “Sue” Kerr will be held on Thursday, August 31, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. at the Spirit of the Rock Church in Oxford, Nebraska with Pastor Paul Sowden officiating. Interment will follow at the Edison Cemetery, at Edison, Nebraska.

Warner Lee Teel was born on August 23, 2023 in McCook, Nebraska. He passed away shortly after his birth, but not before knowing the deep love of his parents, Miranda and Tanner Teel and his brother and sister, Dierks and Vivian.

Jolene Marie Adams Fischer, 64, of Grand Island, Nebraska passed away unexpectedly at her home on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. She was born on August 23, 1959, in Chicopee, Massachusetts, to Billy C and Rita Mae (Tingelhoff ) Adams.