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Saturday May 13, 2023 Valentine Middle School track and field athletes competed at the Nebraska State Championship Meet held in Gothenburg. Paige Springer, Danika Janssen, Annalena Nelson, Addison Stec, and Clarrah Beebout qualified for the state meet.

While the West team lost against the East team, it was still an honor for Valentine’s Logan Witte and Ashton Lurz to be selected to play in the annual West Nebraska All-Star Game, held at Bearcat Stadium in Scottsbluff, Saturday, June 10, 2023. The starting time was moved up due to threats of inclement weather.

Patrick Moore, owner of Goodlife Architecture, shared several floor plans about the proposed convention center from the former Shopko building, Friday, June 9, 2023, at Valentine City Hall, at 5:22 p.m. There were several plans on display, which began with the least amount of capital to the most. A drawback for the building, is that the ceiling height isn’t regulation for the courts, so there were options that included building an add-on gym, with separate entrance.

The Cherry County Planning Commission held a public hearing on Conditional Use Permit #00123, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, with the hearing opened at 4:45 p.m., in the Cherry County Courtroom. The request was from TK Angus/ Tim Marlatt, who wants to build a swine finisher housing 4,999 head over 55 pounds in the following legal description: SW 1/4 SW 1/4 Section 13, Township 33 N, Range 27W Cherry County, NE, which is approximately two miles north of Highway 20, on a private road with an easement already in place.

Jenalee Garwood has been selected as the Sand Painters Art Club Artist of the Month for June. Jenalee is a 15 year old artist, not specializing in any specific medium, but finds her strengths in basic pencil portraits. Aside from this, she enjoys digital, oils, and acrylics. Typically her artwork displays people with very present emotions ranging from pure joy to raging anger.

Bogota, Colombia (AP) - Four Indigenous children survived an Amazon plane crash that killed three adults and then braved the jungle for 40 days before being found alive by Colombian soldiers, bringing a happy ending to a search-and- rescue saga that captivated a nation and forced the usually opposing military and Indigenous people to work together.

Xeriscaping is a word originally coined by the Denver Water Department in the 1980s to describe landscaping that conserves water. It does not mean replacing lawns and trees with plastic and gravel. It means using principles that save water, time, and resources. You can use these principles in your landscape: Create practical turf areas Select plants that use less water ... and group them accordingly.

Incidents/Arrests On May 28, 2023 at 9:02 p.m., an officer responded to the 300 block of West 4th Street for an assault with a weapon. A 25 year old Valentine man was arrested for assault.

On May 30, 2023, I signed LB753 into law. LB753, known as the Opportunity Scholarship Act, will provide parents the choice in which school to send their children.

For more than 70 years, a stripe through the middle of the United States extending from Texas north to Nebraska was known as Tornado Alley. But meteorologists say that in the last 20 years, the alley has shifted away from the northern Great Plains and toward the Southeast, meaning fewer tornadoes are happening in Nebraska.