The area Senior Legion Baseball teams were in action over the weekend. The Frontier County Outlaws went to Valentine for their district tournament. The Outlaws went up against the Security First Regulators and ended up losing their first round game to them 16-1. J Houghtelling stepped on the bump first for the Outlaws. Houghtelling gave up five hits and six runs over one and one-third innings, striking out two and walking one. Issac Synder led Frontier County with one run batted in. The infielder went 1-for-1 on the day. Kahner Kotschwar, Lucas Einspahr, Mason Roblee, Snyder and Houghtelling each collected one hit for the Outlaws.

Crystal Dawn Ward, mother, wife, grandmother, and friend, passed away peacefully at Hillcrest Nursing home in McCook, NE, on May 19, 2025, at the age of 88. Crystal was born to William W.

Furnas County voters living in the Cambridge School District will be receiving new voting ballots in the mail for the August 12, 2025, Cambridge School Bond election following an error with the first batch of ballots. The County Clerk’s initials were not printed on the first batch of ballots, and therefore, those ballots cannot be used as is.

CURTIS - University of Nebraska President Jeff Gold, M.D. engaged in conversation with about 50 people at the Education Center auditorium on the Curtis campus on July 23.

STOCKVILLE - Following a two-day trial for counts of Child Abuse and False Reporting, Maywood Public Schools Supeintendent Mark Bejot was found not guilty on both counts by a jury Thursday afternoon. The jury deliberated for just over an hour before delivering the verdict shortly after 4 p.m.

Last week, I shared how the One Big, Beautiful Bill keeps Nebraskans safe and our communities secure. Today, I want to highlight another top priority: how this new law delivers real, lasting tax relief for Nebraska families.

After nearly twenty years of parish ministry, I entered the world of health care, which, I learned, abounds in acronyms. My first clue was in chaplaincy training, known as “CPE” (Clinical Pastoral Education), the required education for most hospital and hospice chaplains. CNA, SoB (Shortness of Breath), PRN, HoH (Hard of Hearing), and a myriad of other acronyms are now part of my own vernacular. QoL (Quality of Life) is the ‘big’ one in hospice, sometimes called “comfort care.” When quantity of life becomes diminished, it’s all about quality.

The 109th annual Eustis Fair & Corn Show will feature eight days of activities beginning this Saturday and running through August 9. The festivities begin with a Blue Rock shoot on Saturday, then on Sunday is a BBQ at the Eustis Park at 5:30, followed by a children’s pedal pull at 6:30.

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A positive blood donor case of West Nile Virus has been reported to Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department (SWNPHD) in the nine-county health district. A blood donor case means that the virus was found after a person donated blood; all donated blood is tested for West Nile Virus and many other diseases to make sure it is safe to use.