The Valentine Boys Wrestling Team competed in the District C-4 Wrestling Tournament on February 10, 2024 in Broken Bow and qualified five wrestlers for the 2024 NSAA State Wrestling Tournament. Qualifying for State for the Valentine boys were Louden Grooms at 113 lbs., Robinson LaDeaux at 120 lbs., Jehki Williams at 126 lbs., Trevor Burdick at 138 lbs.

TheCherryCountyVeteransMemorial Committee was the recipient of a $8,000 grant from the Rollie Pestel Charitable Foundation. The grant money will be used for the engraving of the World War II memorial names which were damaged on nearly one third of the World War II memorial.

Two Cherry County EMS have earned their Years of Service Awards. Duane Lamb, for 25 years, and Matthew Garwood for 20 years, pictured above.

Volunteer Firefighters celebrating years of service are pictured from L to R: Jeff Ohlmann Jeff Sayer, Jake Ohlmann, Tim Murphy, Mike Jordan, J. D.

For the past 21 years, bulls have dominated Valentine’s Main Street - with the exception of that one really cold year. This year, the weather was overcast but moderate with snow falling on the festivities of Valentine’s Main Event. But that didn’t deter people from coming out and looking at all there was both on Main Street, and inside each business who hosted events!

Coach Marcus Nelson said this about Southwest Conference, “We had a limited roster with a couple guys out for conference. Wanted to make sure they were healthy and ready to go for Districts. We ended up in fourth place still as a team. We have Districts in Broken Bow this week to see who will make it to state.