The Southern Valley Jr. Shooters 2024 Spring Trap season looks quite different than it ever has. This year the SV Jr. Shooters board voted to join the USA Clay Target League. This league has teams in all the lower 48 states which puts us into the Nebraska State High School Clay Target League. This is a relatively new league and currently there are only 6 Nebraska schools that compete, but there are 110 competitors. Southern Valley has 37 athletes registered, and are 3 weeks into league competition and currently have three shooters in the top 10. They decided to join this league for numerous reasons, the two main reasons being coaches felt the kids deserved better opportunities and needed a driving force to improve their skills. They felt it was important to join the league in it’s infancy versus waiting until it grew bigger, which they anticipate it to grow quickly. Prior to this year they have never competed before going to the Cornhusker State Trap in Doniphan which consists of over 2,500 athletes from 5 states; coaches felt these athletes needed more competition and overall skill and score improving versus practicing for 6 weeks for just one competition. What they are doing now is 2-3 weeks of practice, 6 weeks of competition, and one day of competing at the league state competition which will be in Doniphan on June 8th, 2024.

Longtime employee, Kevin Wendland congratulates Lorris and Ruth Haarberg on their retirement from Wagner’s Supermarket at the open house held on Saturday. There were many friends and family attending the event to wish them well on their retirement as Molly and Andy Wendland take on the role of new owners.

God has truly blessed our parents, Larry and Brenda Lambert, with fifty years of love and companionship since their marriage on June 2, 1974, in Beaver City, Nebraska. We’re excited to invite you to share in the joy of this special milestone.

Alice Faye (Macy) Kasson was born September 12, 1941, to Rex and Estel (Hoppas) Macy. She was raised with her older sister, Phyllis, 6 miles south of Oberlin, KS until 1949, when her family moved to Danbury, Nebraska where her father farmed 3 miles northeast of town. She graduated at age 16 with Danbury High School’s last senior class in 1958, and attended McCook Community College, earning an associate degree in Elementary Education. By age 18 she was teaching school in Paxton, NE.

Arlene Iola Klein,91, passed away on May 19, 2024, at Linden Court in North Platte. Arlene was born April 30, 1933 to parents Christ and Martha Toberer.

Leon “Bud” Ray Buker, 80, of Stockville, Nebraska, died May 19, 2024 at his home in Stockville, Nebraska. Bud was born April 29, 1944 in Orafino, NE, son of Jay D.

The daughters of Carol Potter Duis (Jennifer & Susan) invite classmates, friends, and family to gather for an informal celebration of life at Heritage Plaza Dining Room on Sunday, May 26, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. We will provide refreshments, snacks, and sweet treats - please bring yourselves and your memories of our wonderful mom to share!

Arlene “Penny” Peterson, beloved wife of Harold L. Peterson for 56 years, was predeceased by her parents Mary and John Gonzales, and her siblings Dwayne, Larry, Katie, and Linda.

Wesley “Wes” O. Stauffer age 61, of Cambridge, passed away at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital on May 14, 2024.

Cletus E Coffey, 89, of Beaver City, Nebraska died Saturday, May 18, 2024, at Kearney Regional Hospital surrounded by his loving family. He was born July 16, 1934, in Oxford Nebraska to Wendell & Virginia (Harlan) Coffey. He was raised in Beaver City, Nebraska and became a life-long resident, husband, father and business owner.