HAYES CENTER - With three steady performances, the Maywood-Hayes Center volleyball team reached the RPAC Tournament championship match. The Wolves dropped the first set twice on Thursday, before both times rallying for a four-set victory.

Thursday, Oct. 24: Chili w/cinnamon roll.

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MCCOOK - The Southwest volleyball team moved to 30-0 with a four-set triumph over Maywood-Hayes Center in the championship match of the RPAC Tournament in McCook Tuesday night. The Roughriders led throughout the match, but the Wolves, now 22-7, constantly rallied, only to fall short 25-22, 20-25, 26-24, 25-18.

The Medicine Valley Raiders and Maywood-Hayes Center Wolves competed at the NSAA D-6 District Cross County meet in Grant last Thursday, October 17. Agneshka Sankey of MHC and Kael Garrett of Medicine Valley both placed in the top fifteen to qualify for state.

CAMBRIDGE - Arapahoe, Cambridge, Hi-Line, Southwest, and Southern Valley athletes competed at the District D-5 meet in Cambridge last Thursday, October 17. Several athletes qualified, including Hailey Edwards, Olivia Wall, Kara Brockman, and Whitney Page of Hi-Line. The Trojans also had several qualifiers, including Briar Gunderson, Katie Fegley, Rachel Harris, Kylie Koeppen, Jensyn Weiss, and Gavin Gunderson.

Apples have been freshly picked, are readily available in local grocery stores and are a favorite every Fall. They are a great source of fiber and vitamin C, plus they taste great. Johnny Appleseed is best known across the United States for introducing apples to North America in the early 1800’s. However, apples were actually introduced earlier in the 17 th Century by colonists. Since then apples have become a favorite to many Americans.

As Nebraska gets closer to the 2024 election, voters will decide on two competing abortion-related measures. The first is measure 434, the “Protect Women and Children Initiative,” which protects the unborn from abortion past the first trimester, or about thirteen weeks of pregnancy. The second is 439, the so-called “Protect Our Rights” measure, which in reality, endangers the rights of the unborn by enshrining abortion on demand into law.

Last Monday, the FBI arrested an Afghan national planning an Election Day attack on U.S. soil. The man was paroled into the country following the U.S.’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. He was one of tens of thousands of Afghans evacuated to the U.S. and granted entry under a humanitarian parole program.

The saying goes, “newer isn’t always better,” and while I typically tend to agree with that, newer might be better when it comes to glucose monitoring technology. In recent years we have seen rapid development and uptake of new types of glucometers, leaving fewer and fewer patients with diabetes using the old standby fingerstick method of blood sugar monitoring.