Oxford - The Oxford Alumni Banquet was held on Saturday, May 29. The Hilltop Event Center was open all day for classes and groups to come in and meet.

610 Central St. Oxford Hours: Open Memorial Weekend Call 308-655-1185 or 308-991-9821 for appointments.

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 – 11 am - 3 pm.

Phone 308-824-3381 Monday 2 pm - 7 pm Tuesday 2 pm - 7 pm Wednesday 2 pm - 7 pm Thursday 2 pm - 7 pm Friday 9 am - 12 pm & 1 pm - 5 pm Saturday 10 am - 2 pm.

Memorial Day, 2021, was quite different from Memorial Day, 2020, in the midst of COVID-19. It was a beautiful day and people were happy to be out. The weather managed to curtail a few of the activities. Due to Sunday being a rainy day, the Military Memorial Services at the Lyle Cemetery were cancelled. Monday morning was still pretty drippy so the decision was made to not raise the Avenue of Flags in the Lebanon Cemetery. The services were held as planned in the Tyrone, Hamburg and Lebanon Cemeteries. And, the Lebanon American Legion Auxiliary served lunch to a really nice crowd. People were so happy to have a place to go out for lunch and to see and visit family and friends.

Several people came out on Memorial Day to enjoy a cookout at the park put on by the Arapahoe American Legion Post 96. They usually hold the cookout downtown at the American Legion Building but due to the Arapahoe Library moving out and into their newly remodeled building, they moved it to the park and it was a beautiful day for a picnic.

June 1, 2021 (McCook, Neb.) — Weather permitting, a chip seal project will begin June 11 on N-23, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation. Chip seal is an application of an asphalt binder to a roadway surface followed by an aggregate.

(Top-bottom) Gary Schievelbein raised the flag while Valerie Leising sang the National Anthem; Wayne Lammel introduced speaker, Pastor Moshier and 1st Lieutenant Tom Whipple placed the wreath at the unknown soldiers grave marker and the American Legion Color Guard gave a gun salute to honor those fallen. Taps by high school students ended the program.

Memorial Day services were held at cemeteries throughout the area Monday as local service veterans, legion auxiliary members and others participated in ceremonies to honor our nation’s fallen. Pictured above is a gun salute performed by members of the American Legion Post 290 to honor the dead at a ceremony in Elwood. Pictured below are members of the American Legion Post 199 from Cambridge at a ceremony held there.

On Saturday, May 29 at approximately 12:23 a.m., the Arapahoe Volunteer Fire Department, along with mutual aid from Cambridge, Edison and Holbrook, responded to a fire at 602 Vine Street in Arapahoe. Departments were on scene for approximately 4.5 hours. Renters had just moved in recently and the house is owned by Tom Heinen. Two adults and a teenager were safely removed from the home.