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LINCOLN - Attorney General Peterson has joined a multi-state lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s COVID mandates. The suit addresses the President’s unlawful requirements of masks on toddlers and COVID-19 vaccines for staff and volunteers in Head Start Programs.

Cherry County Clerk Magistrate Kay Morrison, of Valentine, submitted her notice of retirement effective December 31, 2021, after just over 29 years of service to the Judicial Branch. Kay started working at Cherry County Court as a records clerk in 1992, became Clerk Magistrate in Rock County in 1998 and then took the Cherry County Clerk Magistrate position in November of 2002.

A special New Year’s Eve program will be held at Valentine’s High School auditorium, Friday, December 31, 2021, from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m., followed by refreshments and fellowship. This event is sponsored by the Valentine Ministerial Association, the Sandhills Prayer Team, and our Community of Christian Faith.

Yes, it does seem as if a cloud has been hanging overhead for not only 2020, and 2021 but could march right into 2022 as well. What to do? Despair? Lament? Perhaps.

Are you looking for someplace that will serve you a nice hot breakfast that has been said to be “very, very, good” by a reliable source? Then check out Somethin’ Else Cafe. Owned by a husband and wife team, Jimmy Case and Faren Mitchell, they offer a breakfast and lunch menu and are open Tuesday through Sunday, from 7:00 a.m.

“We pledge our hands to larger service” in 4-H, and the holidays are a great time to give back to our communities. Cherry County 4-H members, Mady Bopp and Greyson Swan took this pledge to heart. They both applied skills learned in 4-H to raise money for Wreaths Across America.

Globally, the alarm bells are being sounded on climate change. In August, a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid out the already irreversible impacts of climate change, which United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called a “code red for humanity.” Nebraska is already feeling the impacts of climate change by experiencing extreme weather events over the past few years.

“Looks like we’re gonna spend Christmas in the hills,”Shorty said as he put a chunk of wood in the stove that was struggling mightily to drive the night chill from the cabin. Christmas was tomorrow and the boys had planned on going down to the ranch headquarters for a genuine honest-to-goodness woman-cooked Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.

Friday, December 17, at 9:00 a.m. Judge Kozisek presided over the District Court case State v.

On 12/07/2021 at 2:22 a.m., an officer conducted a traffic stop in the 200 block of South Helen Street. A 38 year old South Dakota woman was arrested on suspicion of operating her vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.