The Medicine Valley Band traveled to Minden today where they received an Excellent for their performance!! .

The Nebraska Sheep and Goat Producers Association Annual Meeting and Education Program will be held at the Meat Animal Research Center, located at 120 West Fairfield St., Clay Center, NE. The program will start with a tour of the facillities at 9:00 am followed by the following seminars and speakers: •Improving Out of Season Lambing by Tom Murphy, USDA ARS Meat Animal Research Center, Research geneticist.

BATON ROUGE, LA (10/23/2024)-- Tucker Gillespie, of McCook, NE, was recently selected as the recipient of the Gathright Phi Kappa Phi Dean’s Excellence Award from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Texas A&M Chapter.

The Southern Valley Eagle Marching

Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 23, 2024 — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Agricultural Profitability and Nebraska Extension will host a risk management workshop in Curtis to update livestock producers on the latest insurance options and risk management planning strategies. It will be held from 7 to 9 p.m., Nov. 13, at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, Educational Center Room 137, at 404 E. 7th St.

The Red Willow County GOP (Republican Party) held their monthly meeting on October 22, 2024. A “full house” responded as Chairman, Brenden Funk, encouraged voter participation by all Republican voters in the upcoming election. Vicki Bauer, Hitchcock County Chair and District #305 State Committee Woman, from Culbertson announced that the Hitchcock County Republicans will meet Thursday, November 7, 2024, at 6:30 pm for their monthly meeting at the Methodist Church Fellowship Hall (502 Colorado Street, Culbertson, NE). Vicki extended an invitation to Red Willow County to attend.

Congratulations to the Elementary Quiz Bowl team for their 3rd place finish in Southern Valley. What a great way to start the season! .

Gosper County Food Pantry January 2024-October 2024 Open 2nd and 4th Fridays from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Oxford Food Pantry The pantry will be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Ren and Kathy Widick were Sunday afternoon callers of Doug and Linda Widick at Curtis. Bill and Teresa Babcock of Long Pine were Friday evening to Sunday houseguests of Kenneth and Ginger Adkisson.

Thanks to the Ten Free Trees program, an effort of the Nebraska Forest Service and the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, the city of Curtis received eight trees for the parks projects. The eight received trees were initially planned for work around the community center.