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Valentine, NE – The Sandhills Area Foundation will host its annual fund raiser on Saturday, November 15, 2025, in Valentine, NE. This year’s event will expand its traditional program by including a live performance from Nashville recording artist BJ Jamison. A special thanks to Danielski Farms for donating the venue – the old ShopKo building – for this year’s event.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will accept submissions for the 2025 Nebraskaland Magazine photo contest starting October 1. Submissions should be made at Magazine.OutdoorNebraska.gov.

You are invited to the Valentine Volunteer Fire Department’s Benefit Reverse Raffle Drawing on Saturday, October 11, 2025. Social hour will begin at 5:00 p.m., with food trucks on site for your convenience. We will begin drawing at 6:00 p.m., and will draw until the last ticket is drawn!

Adley Swanson, Fashion Show Beyond the Needle, Purple. Sarah Burge, Fashion Show Constructed STEAM 2, Purple.

4-H Static Exhibits Results Best of Show Awards by Department: Horticulture – Maysa Jones; Photography – Mahaya Jones; Food & Nutrition – Cash Jenkins; Family Consumer Science – Laramie Foster; Visual Arts – Tate Ward; STEM/ Ag – Eli Ormesher. State Fair Qualifiers Textiles – Emeran Tenhouse, Kayleigh Harms, Shyanne Dawson, Ella Brennemann, Cadence Swanson, Case Larson, Adley Swanson, Charlene Metcalf, Laramie Foster.

Madysyn Bopp shared what she wanted to be the very first day of second grade, and it was a Rodeo Queen. Fast forward several years, and her dream has come true when she wa s crowned Teen Miss at the 2026 RCA/Nordeon Rodeo Royalt, August 16, 2025.

Aleena Wagner, 2025 Cherry County Rodeo Queen Aleena resides in Bridgeport, NE on her family ranch. Aleena has completed her Associates Degree of Animal Science from Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture and plans to continue her pursuit toward a veterinarian degree.

ALLIANCE – Contestant and Little Sister applications are now available for the 2026 Miss Alliance and Miss Alliance’s Teen Pageant to be held Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 6:00 p.m., at the Alliance High School PAC. The Miss Alliance pageant is an official local pageant under the Miss America and Miss America’s Teen competition. It is designed to promote scholastic achievement, creative accomplishment, healthy living, and community involvement for America’s young women.

The Sparks NE Spurs of the Cowboy Fast Draw Association conducted a town folk alley at the Keya Paha County Fair in Norden allowing the public to shoot .45 Ruger and Pietta long colt pistols with wax bullets in a contest to give away a Pietta 1873 pistol and a Peacemaker CO 2 Airgun.

CKBeat Friday, September, 12th, Cody Kilgore hosted the Santee Warriors during Homecoming 2025 at Cody Athletic Park and won their first game of the season by the score 82-6, which finally brought the losing streak to an end. This game hopefully will mark the beginning of many more wins to come.