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The Niobrara Council held their regular monthly meeting, February 27, 2025, at the MNNRD meeting room. The meeting was called to order at 1:02 p.m. with the following in attendance: Jason Appelt, Karl Connell, Dallas Dodson, Les Hall, Wade Hollenbeck, Mary Mercure, Mike Murphy (arrived at 1:04 p.m.), Don Painter, Matt Sprenger, Tony Tiefenthaler, Scott Wessel.

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Severe Weather Awareness Week in Nebraska and Iowa is March 24-28, 2025. We encourage everyone to prepare and review your severe weather plan for either your home or office. Whether it be severe thunderstorms, flash floods, or tornadoes, now is the time to work together to ensure we are prepared for an emergency.

Old computers collecting dust? Most people leave them to dust and rust. The responsible thing would be to recycle them, but Valentine Nebraska doesn’t have any options. Last semester, our government teacher tasked us with starting a community service project. Hence I started Titus Tech Recycling.

If you are a Todd County High School alumni, make plans to attend the all school reunion June 13-15 at the Todd County High School. This is for alumni years 1928-2015. Please call Lavern and Pauline Lanz at 605-429-3368 with your current address to get your invitation by mail or message them on Facebook. The last planned reunion, in 2020, was canceled due to COVID. We’re not getting any younger, plan to attend!

VMS third quarter Honor Roll Fifth grade: Emily Benson, Tyson Cochran, Leo Driving Hawk, Kyra Garwood, Ryker Liddy, Harper Mulligan, Samuel Osburn, Reagan Roth. Sixth grade: Lily Alvarez, Haile Benzing, Cash Jenkins, Ava Jones, Evr Ohlmann, Eli Ormesher, Tagon Wenig.

Cody-Kilgore’s A Honor Roll includes: Gunner Ford, Fiora Moreland, Logan Pongratz, Carson Walkling, Kate Cox, Teagen Fish, Kynzee McConaughey, Ayden Naslund, Lilly Ravenscroft, Amanda Pongratz, James Walkling, Elliah Wolff.

Congratulations to the Valentine Middle School third quarter Badger Effort Award recipients! The Badger Effort Award is based on the school’s character education. Students who demonstrate Character In Action (CIA), responsibility, accountability, honesty, empathy, and respect were nominated by their classroom teachers and staff.

Hello, Everyone! Welcome to the first issue of Open Plains Transit’s The Bus Stop. We expect The Bus Stop will be what is considered a hard copy or printed blog, which usually discusses opinions, experiences, advice, or interesting stories and examples from OPT staff or other transportation professional’s perspectives. Perhaps, part news articles, which focus on reporting facts, statistics, analysis, or expert opinions. The goals are keep the public and our ridership updated on current events. We hope this section will grow into a weekly publication of news and events to share what is happening in public transportation, locally, regionally, statewide and across our nation. For our first issue, we’ll start with the basics.

During the week of March 16 - 22, the following arrest was made: • On 3/22/25, at 12:40 a.m., an officer conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of A and South Hall streets. The driver, a 29 year old South Dakota woman, was subsequently arrested for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol.