LINCOLN, Neb. – Members of Nebraska LEAD Program’s Class 43 recently embarked on a 10-day National Study/Travel Seminar, gaining firsthand exposure to national and regional agricultural systems, policymaking and advocacy. The seminar, held February 5-14, took Fellows to Kansas City, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Moline, IL, for a series of immersive experiences.

25 Years Ago-February 24, 2000 The City accepted a $179,500 bid from Sand Livestock Systems Monday evening, clearing the way once gain for construction work to begin on the Beaver City Swimming Pool. Senator Ed Schrock was at the Hometown Drive In in Beaver City Friday afternoon to visit with his constituents.

The Cambridge basketball teams saw the fourth quarter crush their hopes of victory at Alma Friday as the girls dropped a 53-33 defeat to the Cardinals and the boys lost the lead late and fell 49-41. Alma scored the first 15 points of the boys contest and looked to bury the Trojans early, but Cambridge rallied within 21-13 at halftime and exploded with six threes and 22 points in the third to take the lead.

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Winter weather persisted into the week, holding its grip on recent weather with almost-daily snow and frigid cold temperatures. An extreme cold warning last into Thursday, where low termperatures were forecast to be as far as 20 degrees below zero.

More than 200 of the best area high school students from 12 area high school were on the McCook Community College campus Wednesday competing for team and individual honors in the annual Inter-High Day Scholastic competition.

HASTINGS - While there was hesitation to battle the snowy and icy roads on Saturday morning, the McCook High School swimmers and divers made the trek to Hastings worth their effort. “We questioned driving to the Hastings meet, but it was a very successful meet for the Bison,” Graff said, adding “A huge shout-out to Cassie Spencer for driving us up there and back safely.” The McCook swimmers and divers returned home with numerous school records, several automatic qualifying times for the state swim and dive meet and a variety of medals from gold through sixth place.

BARTLEY - The Hi-Line girls basketball team saw its season come to a close Monday at the Subdistrict D1-10 Tournament with a 51-40 defeat to Wauneta-Palisade. The Bulls played the Broncos evenly and knocked down shots in the first quarter, but Wa-Pa took control in the second, stretching a 15-12 lead after a quarter to 30-19 at halftime.

Eleven individuals qualifi ed for this week's Boys State Wrestling Tournament in Omaha by placing in the top four of their respective weight classes across different districts last weekend. At the District D-3 Tournament, Arapahoe produced a pair of district champions and three qualifiers for State.