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

Valentine City Council President Kyle Arganbright was the one who cut the ribbon for Valentine’s Main Street renovation, Friday, June 9, 2023. The celebration included free hamburgers grilled in front of the Valentine Public Library by Hoboe’s Smoke n’ Meat’s. The line stretched all the way to the Sawyer Memorial Library!

Middle Niobrara Natural Resource District and Niobrara National Scenic River staff worked together to improve river users’ access at Brewer Bridge landing. The landing was leveled up and new beach mats were installed to assist people using this landing. This is a different product and can be changed if seen that it isn’t working well for people.

Congratulations to Rhonda Officer of Gillette, WY the 2022 Cherry County Passport Winner! She won a $1,000 Cherry County Vacation Package! She completed all 37 stops on the second annual Cherry County Passport that was inside last year’s Explore Valentine Magazine.

Visitors are again enjoying the sight of Smith Falls, Nebraska’s tallest waterfall. The waterfall at Smith Falls State Park, and the newly constructed 500-foot boardwalk to it, reopened May 26, 2023 with only finishing touches remaining in the process.

JUNE 6, 2023, LINCOLN — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol removed 65 impaired drivers from the road during the annual campaign Click It or Ticket campaign to begin the summer travel season. “Nebraska roadways have had a busy start to summer,” said Colonel John Bolduc, superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol.

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.

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.

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.

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.