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No matter where you live, the conservation and wise use of water in our gardens and landscapes is important. Sustainable water use helps grow beautiful gardens while conserving water and helping reduce water pollution and stormwater overflows.

ACTIVITIES Cards daily at 1:00 p.m. Men’s coffee group daily at 9:30 a.m.

When freeze warnings are posted, gardeners carefully cover susceptible garden vegetables and flowers with blankets, sheets, buckets, and garbage cans. But larger shrubs and trees must fend for themselves. The freeze this past weekend left many woody plants across the panhandle with brown, drooping leaves and shoots.

Columbus, NE - Electric customers in Nebraska may soon be receiving an email request to participate in the 2022 Residential Appliance Survey, which helps inform Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) on how residential customers are using electricity and how that might change in the future.

In recent years, Memorial Day has initiated the beginning of summer. Stores are having special sales, families meet for backyard barbecues, tractor pulls, and rodeos get good crowds.

The State v Kevin T. Kilmer was scheduled for pretrial hearing May 20, 2022, and has been continued to August 19, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.

Reported offenses On 05/16/2022 at 9:29 p.m., officers fielded a report of two vehicles drag racing on Donoher Street. On 05/16/2022 at 10:05 p.m., officers responded to a one vehicle accident with injuries at the intersection of Highway 20 and Government Streets.

North Central RC&D Council met May 11, in Bassett. Five electronics collections where held at the end of April, early May in O’Neill, Atkinson, Springview, Bassett and Valentine. There were 11,079 pounds of electronics collected by the five communities. Free will donations helped to offset the $1,400 cost for E-Stroyed to haul.

At the annual meeting in May, the following people were elected to office: Chief Terry Engles; Assistant Chief, Courtney Fowler; President, Tim Witte; Vice President, Jeff Ohlmann; Secretary-Treasuerer, Guy Tielke; Safety Officers, Jeff Sayer and Luke Grubham; Captains, Ross Brockley, William Beel, and Tadd Buechle; Training Officer, Andy Dawson.

Unbeknownst to the world, the perfect storm was setting up. In time, the repercussions of that storm would spill over impacting people in one way or another. Youth would have difficulty navigating the unknown of the pandemic; think of all of the things that were once within their control...now stripped away, as well as changing from day to day. As adults, our heads were spinning, imagine what was going on for the youth.