The Maywood-Hayes Center volleyball team recovered from a rough week and took wins against the Brady Eagles and the Medicine Valley Raiders last Tuesday night. Maywood-Hayes Center had defeated Brady just one week earlier.

ARAPAHOE - The Arapahoe volleyball team capped its regular season and senior night with a victory, taking down Northern Valley of Almena, Kansas in four sets last Thurday. The warriors rolled through the first two sets, winning 25-16 and 25-15 before the Huskies rallied late in the third to win 26-24 and extend the match to a fourth set.

The Hi-Line Cross Country program had a packed week last week. The highschool teams competed at the Franklin Thursday, and the junior high teams competed at state in last Saturday.

A large crane was stationed at the Evangelical Free Church in Oxford Monday morning, October 9. Workers were busy removing the steeple from the church. They were finished with the removal before noon. The church made the difficult decision to remove the steeple after years of problems with water leaks at the site. There have been problems with leaks since about the time the steeple was put up.

Last weekend, America was brought to the brink of a government shutdown. This happened, in part, because President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer squeezed the calendar.

For some reason autumn and popcorn just seem to go together. It is a great snack or treat for Fall get together and how many can pass up a bag of freshly popped corn at a ball game? Nebraska is the #1 producer of popcorn in the United States, producing nearly 45% of our nation’s crop.

This is downright shameful of me, but I am going to write it anyway. I have a family member that I have been meaning to tell a story and everytime I think I will, I get sidetracked.

From the back of our hands to the back of our legs, pale blue blood vessels are visible just under the skin. Oftentimes these veins are flat and not painful. However when these vessels become abnormally swollen or dilated, they are called varicose veins. This swelling is caused by the valves inside the veins becoming weak and no longer sealing tightly. Varicose veins can become painful, quite large and stick out from the surface of the skin.

Joanne Rose Lammers, age 92, of Arapahoe, Nebraska passed away on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at the Beaver City Manor in Beaver City, Nebraska. She was born on July 9, 1931, at Minden, Nebraska to Martin and Isabelle (Nelson) Kaufflet.

Greg Saylor, age 67, passed away at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital on October 3, 2023. He was born in Lincoln, Nebraska on March 25, 1956, to Jack and Ortrude (Anderson) Saylor.