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Beets are one vegetable you can purchase most months of the year but those you grow yourself taste the best. The good news is there is still time to grow your own this season.

Have you tried growing sweet potatoes in your garden? We’re giving it a second try. Why? Because we like eating them, and a tuberous root started to sprout before I cooked it. Early spring is the time to start sweet potatoes from plants called “slips.’ Order slips or make your own. Slips can be started by taking a disease-free, fully-grown sweet potato from last year’s crop or the supermarket, mine came from the supermarket.

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The American Red Cross invites Valentine blood donors to come celebrate their donation milestones on Thursday, July 6, at the regular community blood drive at St. Nicholas Catholic Church.

It’s a Carnival! It’s going to be fun! There will be prizes! You won’t want to miss it! That’s right, this July 13, one day only, Ruthie Kaup, Lilybet Rolfe and Ellison LaDeaux, along with their parents help, will be sponsoring a Carnival to help raise funds for new swings at Ecology Park. It’s a project they’ve been working on for over two Years.

For 83 years, the Sandhills Cattle Association has been holding its annual Membership Meeting, but over the years, we've added a trade show, cattle contests, educational speakers, and entertainment. Due to changing times and other reasons, we decided to make things a little different this year! On June 15, at the Cherry County Fairgrounds in Valentine, we held our 84th annual Convention and Banquet! We started the evening with a cocktail hour by Corner Pub and viewed all of the silent auction items. Then the Executive Board held the Annual Membership meeting.

Welcoming PFC Dale Thompson home was clearly a patriotic celebration - from Omaha’s Eppley Field, until he arrived in Cherry County, led by the Nebraska State Patrol, Cherry County Sheriff, and followed by family, Patriot Guard Riders, and multitudes of first responders from Cody, Kilgore, and Valentine.

LINCOLN – U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) announced her intentions to seek re-election to the United States Senate on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Surrounded by long-time supporters and several high-ranking community leaders and elected officials at the Nebraska State Capitol, Senator Fischer made it official.

LINCOLN – U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, announced that Nebraska will receive $405,281,070 in broadband funding through the BEAD program within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The funding for this program was made possible by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, which Senator Fischer supported.

by Brian Barks, President and CEO of Food Bank for the Heartland Michaella Kumke, President and CEO of Food Bank of Lincoln Everyone needs nutritious food to thrive, and in every community in America, people are working hard to provide for themselves and their families. Yet in 2021, 34 million people—one in 10 people—faced food insecurity in the U.S. and the Heartland is not immune. Hunger is a profound issue in every one of Nebraska’s 93 counties. Today in our state, an estimated 9.8 percent of people experience food insecurity. Of that, 13.5 percent are children. And the situation is getting worse.