Justin Hamel has had a very successful year drag racing. Justin races a 1986 Monte Carlo SS in the NHRA/ Summit Racing Equip Pro ET class.

Longtime McCook Junior College and McCook Community College educator Jerda Garey Vickers has been named the Mid-Plains Community College Distinguished Alumnus for 2026 and recognized at the recent Nebraska Community College Association (NCCA) annual meeting in Scottsbluff.

ANNOUNCEMENT!! You are invited to sing in the 2026 Cambridge Community Christmas Cantata!

Conserving native range resources and teaching others to do the same is a long-standing tradition in Nebraska. In 1965, a group of people associated with the Nebraska Chapter of Society for Range Management began the Nebraska Range Judging Contest.

KEARNEY – Brodie Mitchell and Addison Chapman are the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s 2026 homecoming king and queen. They were crowned Thursday evening during a ceremony at the Health and Sports Center on campus. UNK’s homecoming royalty are selected by two rounds of student voting.

These clinics are for farmers and ranchers and their families. They are confidential, one-on-one sessions with an experienced Ag Law attorney and Ag finance counselor.

The latest U.S. Drought Monitor released last Thursday showed that recent rainfall has relinquished some of the severe drought’s grip on the region.

GOTHENBURG, Neb. — Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture students took “learn by doing” beyond the classroom on Oct. 1 as the Advanced Welding class traveled to WearParts in Gothenburg for an inside look at welding in the agricultural industry.

ARAPAHOE - Last month, The Maschhoffs, a familyowned farm based in Illinois that operates swine facilities in the area, made a $20,000 contribution to Arapahoe’s Crystal Theater through their philanthropic endeavor, The Maschhoffs Impact.

LINCOLN - In 1989, Cambridge Public Schools hired a teacher and football coach named Dan Keyser. Keyser had taught and coached football for two years at Wood River, where his teams went 0-9 and 2-7.