Nebraska farm and ranch families are invited to attend a free educational workshop focused on succession and estate planning. Hosted by the Nebraska Rural Response Hotline in collaboration with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture’s Beginning Farmer Tax Credit and Negotiations Programs, Nebraska Extension, and the Nebraska Farmers Union Foundation, these workshops are designed to help producers prepare for the future of their operations. The Farm & Ranch Succession Workshop will take place Mar. 11 in Curtis from 1 pm to 5 pm at Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture Welcome Center (610 E 6th Street).

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Last Tuesday, local fire departments and firefighters were scrambled into action for a grass fire between Arapahoe, Elwood and Bertrand. The call was received shortly before 2 p.m.

Orleans resident and Arapahoe high school graduate Janell Anderson Ehrke has officially filed her candidacy for the District 38 seat in the Nebraska Legislature, becoming the fifth candidate to replace term-limited Senator Dave Murman.

CURTIS - Medicine Valley hosted the RPAC Speech Contest Wednesday and three area speakers won four total events while Maywood finished third as a team. Emma Peterka led Maywood with a first place finish in Humorous Prose.

OMAHA - The Girls State Wrestling Tournament has been all too familiar for Southwest’s Madelyn Tryon. The senior had qualified all four years of high school, medaling sixth both her sophomore and junior seasons.

OMAHA - Overton the course of five days split between two separate tournaments, local wrestlers excelled at the State Wrestling Championships in Omaha. At the Class B Girls Tournament Tuesday and Wednesday, all seven qualifiers won at least a match and three medaled, led by a State Championship from Southwest’s Madelyn Tryon at 235.

After the first two nights of Subdistrict action, three area teams won opportunities to compete for the Subdistrict championship on Thursday. At the Subdistrict D2-8 tournament, second-seeded Medicine Valley (14-9) took care of business Tuesday and dismissed third-seeded Sandhills/ Thedford, 51-36, to advance to Thursday’s title game against top-seeded Sumner-Eddyville-Miller(14-8), which ousted Brady, 62-32, on Tuesday.

MAYWOOD - A lot can change in 10 weeks. Thursday’s subdistrict championship between topseeded Maywood/Hayes Center and third-seeded Southwest was a rematch from the first weekend of the season when the Wolves routed the Roughriders 84-46.

SHELTON - Following a heartbreaking finish in their Subdistrict opener last Tuesday, the Arapahoe girls basketball team had to sit and wait. Like a lot of bubble teams come Selection Sunday, the Warriors had no control over whether or not their season would continue.