Mother Nature reminded us this last week that IT IS still summer! Several days were in the triple digits and at least one day saw a temp of 105 degrees! Let us remember these hot days in about 4 months when the temp goes to the other extreme. This morning on the radio, I heard someone’s prediction of a snowy winter. Snow is messy to deal with but we need some snow.

The Holbrook Lions Club presented Kathy Trosper & Betty McKenney with 10 year membership pins and Howard Davis with a 60 year pin. .

LINCOLN--Attorney General Hilgers joined a bipartisan coalition of 54 Attorneys General in a letter urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence (AI) can and is being used to exploit children through child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and to propose legislation to protect children from those abuses.

A foot clinic is being held every other month at the Golden Generation Center offered by GSS Home Health. The clinic is open to anyone no matter their age in the Oxford community.

GRAND ISLAND - Gage Gerlach of the Maywood FFA Chapter took home Champion Duroc Market Gilt and Overall Champion Purebred Market Gilt at the 2023 Nebraska State Fair. Gerlach exhibited his duroc, Nelly, on Monday morning in the FFA Market Swine show.

The Oxford Quilt Group is hosting a ‘Bed Turning’. This will be held at their meeting on Monday, September 18 at 7 pm.

by: Brianna Davis A mere 84 years ago, a young High school junior from the Nebraska School of Agriculture was chosen by the faculty to represent the school as junior attendant to the queen. Included with this honor was riding a float in the 1939 Curtis Fall Festival parade.

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of meeting with Candice Price, the owner of Home Team Auto Sales in Omaha. Candice traveled out to Washington to speak with her federal representatives about the challenges she’s faced as an entrepreneur and business owner. She and I hit it off immediately, and I was grateful for the many insights she shared with me. During that meeting, we came up with the idea to organize a roundtable with other female business owners in Omaha.

My son is a Boy Scout. Hopefully, he will become an Eagle Scout like his dad, his grandpa, his uncle, and not to mention eleven of the twelve men that walked on the moon. Whether he does or not, it has been an honor seeing the program help him and other boys mature into responsible young men.

Summer is a great time to enjoy tomatoes fresh off the vine. There are so many wonderful ways to enjoy tomatoes from a bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, to mixing them with mozzarella and balsamic glaze, to roasting them on the grill. Other ways might include omelets topped with tomatoes, a fresh salsa or putting them in a pasta salad.