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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Cambridge City Council met in regular session on Monday, February 3, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. Council member Nora McGowen entered the meeting at 6:33 p.m. After the Pledge of Allegiance and the Open Meeting Law announcement, the council approved the Consent Agenda items, which included approval of the minutes from the January 20, 2025 meeting, the claims, and the Park Board minutes from December 10, 2025. The Consent Agenda also included the Cambridge EMS Minutes from November 25, 2024, and the Library Board Minutes from January 16, 2025.

MCCOOK, NEB. (February 11, 2025) – Farmers and ranchers in Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hayes, Hitchcock and Red Willow counties will be receiving $4.3 million in cash-back dividends returned by Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) as part of the financial cooperative’s patronage program, paying 1% back as a cash-back dividend.

Casie Helms, Arapahoe-Holbrook Public School Backpack Program Director, accepts a $2100 donation on February 3rd from Mark Stagemeyer, Justin Stagemeyer, Jared Shafer, Paige Hyke, and Laura Frink of MNB Insurance Services, Inc., and from Erin Shafer and Kate Warner of MNB Realty, LLC to go towards the school’s Backpack Program. Children signed up for the Backpack Program are provided with nutritious and easy-to-prepare food and snacks when other resources may not be available, such as weekends and school vacations.