first with a time of 12.94. Farr also placed third in the 200.

MERNA - The Maywood-Hayes Center track team took home both champion titles from the Anselmo-Merna Invite last Thursday. The men won with 133 points, and the ladies with 128, both teams beating the runners-up by ten or more points.

WILCOX - The Arapahoe Warrior and Cambridge Trojan track teams competed at the Falcon Track Invite in Wilcox-Hildreth last Friday. The Cambridge boys placed second as a team, and the Arapahoe boys placed eleventh.

OXFORD - The Hi-Line Bills, Medicine Valley Raiders, Southwest Roughriders, and Southern Valley Eagles competed at SV's Track Invite last Friday. The Southern Valley girls won twenty-six top-eight places.

By Kathy Burr, Extension Agent The baking aisle at your local supermarket has grown to include a wide variety of flours. Flour is the finely-ground, sifted meal of grains, nuts, seeds, legumes or certain vegetables— each kind of flour has a different nutritional profile. The cooking and baking properties will vary by the type of flour you are using. The most common flours are milled from wheat, a Nebraska agriculture commodity. But today there are so many other choices says Nancy Frecks Nebraska Extension Food & Health Educator.

“Well, doc,” the patient was telling me, “I get winded so easily now. I can hardly go to the mailbox without stopping to catch my breath. It did not used to be that way. Do you think something is wrong?”

Each year, the NCAA Basketball tournament captivates our attention. “March Madness” is much more than just a sporting event.

Imagine if at the height of the last Cold War, the Soviet Union had control over the largest television network in the United States. Imagine if its surveillance network tracked the opinions, interests, and movements of millions of Americans. Imagine this propaganda and espionage campaign targeted the next generation of American leaders.

Randy “James Randall” Karash, 68, of Oxford, Nebraska, passed away on March 20, 2024. He was born on May 4, 1955, in McCook, Nebraska. Randy was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Oxford. He started school at Edison Public School and later attended and graduated from Oxford High School with the class of 1973.

Marilyn Jean Kester, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away on March 18 in Cambridge at 85 years. She was born in McCook on February 10, 1939, to Ralph and Jane (Richey) Beals. The family lived near Stockville until Marilyn was five years old, when they moved to a farm south of Cambridge. She began her education at Sunny Hillside Country School.