Body As anyone who has ever lived in Elm Creek knows, anytime you enter the Buffalo County community from the south, you have a choice. You can either take the quick route to downtown, or the roundabout way.

Body The St. Paul Community Library will soon be a brighter place to enjoy a good book after city leaders agreed to fund a long-discussed upgrade to the library’s more than one hundred lighting fixtures.

Body I was able to read the website this weekend and both the South Loup and Middle Loup rivers are listed as “ice” again. What else can we expect when it is winter? I’m going to start with the most current events and work backwards.

Body St. Paul Public Schools welcomed two new additions to its playground in December, and the kids are going gaga.

Body Volunteers with the St. Paul Senior Center—Howard County Senior Services— continue to work diligently to serve meals to those in need throughout St. Paul in 2023, but low numbers of volunteers, said Supervisor Toni Bentz last week, continue to stretch the organization thin.

Body An agenda item aimed at aligning the City of St. Paul’s municipal code to current practice sparked a great deal of discussion last week, with members of the city’s leadership being forced to smother some fiery debate before voting on a resolution.

Body Mother Nature delivered a powerful punch of winter weather last week, with a winter storm causing closures, delays, and travel concerns across the area.

Body In 2016, Eric and Maria Montemagni left their longtime home in California for the plains. There, they pursued a longtime dream: creating a distillery that turned home-grown grain into whisky and other spirits for local consumption.