BEAVER CITY – The city council held their first meeting of the year on January 3. The only official action taken was approving the minutes of the last meeting and the claims as presented.

ELWOOD - At its regular meeting last week, the Gosper County Commissioners accepted the resignation and retirement of Sheriff Dennis Ocken. Ocken has been the Sheriff in Gosper County for 15 years and his term was to expire a year after the next general election, but he decided now was the time as his final day will be January 31.

10 years ago Arapahoe native, Lelia Haussler, knows the history of Arapahoe and their families. She learned the annual McCoy family reunion began in 1918.

10 years ago Deb Monter and Karen Gottsch were the winners of The First National Bank Christmas Money Tree Contest. Bank president Larry Voss presented them each half of $283.32, Cambridge native Thomas McHale will travel to Botswana on New Year’s Day to student community and public health at the University of Botswana in Gaborone.

10 years ago Concrete has been run, metal beams and roofing braces put up on the new library building in Elwood. Judge Michael Piccolo has been named County Court Presiding Judge of the 11 th Judicial District (Arthur, Chase, Dawson, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hayes, Hitchcock, Hooker, Keith, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson, Perkins, Red Willow, and Thomas Counties) beginning January 2012.

10 years ago Dean and Brittany (Tollman) Klotz were in Bartley to visit her family on her birthday when they learned of the Bartley Café closing. Hours will be 6 a.m.

100 Years Ago January 12, 1922 The Swanson Grove in the east part of town was leased for a period of five years, to be used as a park. Dr.

25 Years Ago December 26, 1996 Winners of the annual Chamber of Commerce Holiday House contest were Kay Kasson, Best All Around; Van Cozad, Religious; and the Beaver City Manor, Commercial. Southern Valley students at Beaver City, kindergarten through fourth grade, presented a program of Christmas music for residents at the Beaver City Manor, which was much enjoyed.

Thursday, Dec. 30: Closed Friday, Dec.

Kayla Hoard is a 15-year-old freshman at ARapahoe High School. Her family include her parents Tim and Jamie, sister Bethany, brothers Tracy and Ethen. On December 2nd, 2021 she was taken to the ER as she wasn’ts feeling very well. Doctors did some tests and they showed that her white cell count was extremely high and her blood platelets were very low. She was then rushed to omaha Children’s Hospital to the Hematology/Oncology departmet. Then at about 7:00 a.m. on December 3rd, doctors diagnosed Kayla with (AML) leukemia that is located within her bone marrow.