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Remember when

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Taken from the files of The Wolbach Messenger Ten Years Ago, 2014 A $100 gift to Hillside Cemetery was received this week from Bill and Debbie Lyions in memory of parents and son. It will be designated for new entrance signs.

911 OUTAGE IMPACTS COUNTY

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The Federal Communications Commission is currently investigating the cause of an outage that led to disruptions in 911 service in portions of Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, and Nevada last Wednesday. In Howard County, the outage had left calls to 911 ringing busy for just over one hour last Wednesday night.
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Senator Meyer reflects on session, looks to future

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The sixty-day second session of the 108th Legislature came to an end last Thursday, April 18th. In an address to lawmakers last week, Governor Jim Pillen said that senators should be proud of their accomplishments but stressed that the failure of the state’s legislative branch to pass his sponsored property tax relief package, Legislative Bill (LB) 388, would lead him to reconvene the body later this year.

St. Paul police cite six during special campaign

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According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data released earlier this month, distracted driving accounted for eleven percent of all police-reported motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2022, including twelve percent of all crashes that resulted in injury and eight percent of those resulting in death. It constitutes, says the NHTSA, a major—and growing—safety hazard nationwide.

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The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced a record number of members for the 2024 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, which is comprised of college football players from all divisions of the NCAA, NAIA, and sprint football who maintained a cumulative 3.2 grade point average or better throughout their college careers.