Arapahoe students attend State Science Olympiad

} The family of Dale and Roberta Blake would like to honor them with a card shower for their 67th wedding anniversary. They were married April 26, 1959 in Lebanon, NE.

Southern Valley FBLA atttended Nebraska State FBLA Convention .

Medicine Valley students compete at State Science Olympiad

Cambridge students attend State Science Olympiad

Arapahoe had 10 students attend Invention Convention at the Holdrege Prairie Museum recently. The 6th grade team of Emma Houser and Neligh Robinson earned 3rd place in their circle with their invention of The Broom Buddy. Molly Leising and Emeri Harrell, 6th graders, earned 1st place in their circle with the invention The Sticker Picker. Molly and Emeri won the Overall Award for 6th grade also!

Southern Valley placed 6th with a time of 60.27, which was run by Natalee Holste, Lauren Quinn, Laney Becker, and Paisley Hammond. In the 4x400-meter relay, MHC placed 2nd with a time of 4:18.18, which was run by Farr, A.

Deanna Jean “Dee” Chandler, age 65, passed away peacefully from complications of diabetes on April 6, 2026, at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She was born in McCook, Neb., on August 20, 1960, to Gary A. and D. Jean (Nelson) Schick and spent most of her childhood in the Curtis, Neb. area. Her introduction to the work world was as a cook at the Raider Inn in Curtis, because at fourteen, she was too young to be a waitress.

Sheldon “Doc” W. Spickelmier, 82 of Curtis, Nebraska passed away on April 7th, 2026 at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Hospital in Aurora, CO after a two year battle with a spinal cord injury.

} The family of Ruth Schutz would like to honor her with a card shower for her 100th birthday on April 16th. Cards will reach her at 73685 Rd 420, Elwood, NE 68937.