Phone 824-9177 Monday – closed Tuesday – 1 pm - 5 pm Wednesday – 1 pm - 5 pm Thursday – 1 pm - 5 pm Friday – 1 pm - 5 pm Saturday – 10 am - 3 pm.

Phone 308-824-3381 Monday-Thursday 2:30 to 7:30 Friday 10:00 to 5:00 Saturday 9:00 to 2:00.

Monday, January 10 - Chili dog, Peas, Fruit Cobbler, Roll Tuesday, January 11 - Lasagna, Bread stick, Green Beans, Peaches Wednesday, January 12 - Chicken, Mashed potatoes/gravy, Corn, Roll, Ice Cream, birthday cake Thursday, January 13 - Porcupine Meatballs, Carrots, Scalloped Potatoes, Cookie Friday, Jan 14 - Chicken Noodle/Chili, Sandwich, Fruit Crisp.

Monday, January 10 - Tater Tot Casserole Tuesday, January 11 - Ham Loaf Wednesday, January 12 - Fried Chicken Thursday, January 13 - Hot Beef Sandwich Friday, January 14 - Chicken Noodle Soup.

Available Tuesday and Thursday by appointment only. An equal opportunity provider Contact phone numbers include 991-1064, 991-7331, 655-1922, 991-6911, 999-9418.

Huntley, Nebraska is a small village between Holdrege and Alma, Nebraska just off US highway 183. Pioneers came to the area around 1872 and established the community with a general store, church, cemetery, and a post office. It was incorporated in 1913 with a population of 200. The population has dwindled to only 44 today. At one time in had two churches. There is still a Methodist Church in town. The town has had four different schools; a soddy, a one-room frame house, a twostory wooden building, and a two-story brick building. It is sad to see so many towns and villages disappear across the prairies. Each one of them are filled with past memories.

Have you ever heard of Lyle, Kansas. It sits on a country road just south of Lebanon, Nebraska. It sits two miles south of the Nebraska-Kansas state line. When I visited the site a few days ago, all that I found that was left was a closed Methodist Church, a cemetery, and a community building that is still in operation. There is one house in the village owned by Terry Rippe. The first men to locate in the vicinity of Lyle were Nick and Tom Sorrick and Len and Worley Andrews. These were all buffalo hunters and arrived at the site of Lyle in the spring of 1873. They both filed for homesteads in the area. Worley Andres boasted the first frame house in the county and was one of the early clerks of the county. Mr. Rippe gave me an old post card that he had of an early store at Lyle named the E.M. Jones Store. I don't know how long the community was served by a post office. I took a picture of the back of the church to show the use of outhouses. Does anyone remember the "glory days" of the outhouse? I won't share any of my stories.

The open portion of the meeting of the Village of Oxford Board of Trustees was short on Monday, January 3. They met at 7 for a regular meeting and after approving claims and hearing reports from Clerk Becky Calderone and Public Works Director Duane Hoffman went into executive session. The executive session was to have discussion on patron misconduct at the Oxford Public Library.

Furnas County Sheriff Doug Brown issued a report of calls made by his office in 2021. While the incident report was many pages long, we will try to condense those numbers into a manageable format for our readers, listing the major disturbances.

ARAPAHOE - A 52-yearold Arapahoe woman was arrested at her work place and charged with three felonies, including distribution of methamphetamine. According to Furnas County Sheriff Doug Brown, authorities arrested Arapahoe resident Kimberly L.