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Spring into the growing season

Spring flowering bulbs and perennials are filling our landscapes with color. As your gardens come alive this spring, start making notes on needed improvements and provide some early season color and nectar for the pollinators. This will keep your landscape looking its best all season long and for years to come.

LUNCH MENUS

Cody-Kilgore School Monday, April 18 - No School Tuesday, April 19 - Breakfast: Cody-Pancakes, cereal, toast, fruit, juice, and milk. Kilgore - Donuts, cereal, toast, fruit, juice, and milk.

Farm and ranch financial clinics to be held

These clinics are for farmers and ranchers and their families. They are confidential, one-onone sessions with an experienced Ag Law attorney and Ag finance counselor. These clinics have been offered in Nebraska since 1989. In a roughly hour-long session, you are welcome to bring up whatever issues might be affecting your farm or ranch. In general, clinic discussions often involve estate and succession planning, financial and operational issues, beginning farmer programs, real estate and lease matters, fence law, property rights, farm loans and loan programs, and debtor/creditor law. Here is an opportunity to obtain an experienced outside opinion on issues that may be affecting your farm or ranch. Bring your questions!

Main Street progress

Planning for this week Midlands Contracting, Inc., plans to complete Storm Sewer work at 3rd & Main this week and will continue preparations to open the 3rd Street crossing. A second crew will begin placement of the Sanitary Sewer and Manholes working North from 3rd Street toward 4th Street.

Work to begin on US-20, near Ainsworth

April 5, 2022, Ainsworth - Weather permitting, work began on US-20, from reference post 241+88 to reference post 243+38, according to the Department of Transportation. A & R Construction Co., of Plainview, is the contractor.

NSP begins statewide Distracted Driving Traffic Safety initiative

APRIL 4, 2022, LINCOLN — April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month and Nebraska State Troopers will be on patrol throughout the state, working to keep roads safe and educate motorists on the dangers of distracted driving.

Fire chief killed in crash during fire response

APRIL 8, 2022, ARAPAHOE -The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating a fatality crash that occurred on Highway 283 Thursday, April 7, during a response to the large fire southeast of Elwood. Both vehicles involved were assisting in the fire response.