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Body Arapahoe-Holbrook High School Prom will be holding their promenade and crowning of the royalty on Saturday, April 28 at 6:00 p.m. Senior royalty candidates are (Front row l-r) Ryleigh Tidyman, Brooke Wendland, Makenna Schrock and Lauren Moore.

Body The recent summer-like temperatures have been a welcome change, but this is Nebraska. It didn’t take long for cooler weather to snap us back to reality, and we are only in March.

Body On Thursday, April 9th, 2026, at 3:40 p.m., a meeting conducted by Southwest Public Schools will take place at the high school library in Bartley.

Body March is National Nutrition Month and Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department (SWNPHD) encourages residents to focus on making informed food choices and developing healthy eating habits.

Body Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious contagious disease caused by bacteria that typically affects the lungs but can also impact other parts of the body. TB spreads through the air when a person with active TB disease coughs, speaks, or sings. There are two forms of TB.

Body KEARNEY - Twenty area students will continue their speech seasons into this weekend after qualifying for the NSAA State Speech Meet in Kearney.

Body The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in partnership with the Lower Republican Natural Resources District (NRD) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prepared a draft “Turkey Creek Watershed Plan, Furnas and Gosper Counties, Nebraska” in December 2025.

Body For lake goers headed west across the Medicine Creek Reservoir Dam, looking south will see activity, trucks and equipment. Last fall, the Bureau of Reclamation awarded a contract for construction work to begin. The project is twofold.