The 108th Legislature First Session was a hot mess. The fact that three senators could derail the work of forty-six others in the nation’s only onehouse, allegedly nonpartisan Legislature, speaks volumes.

Ten Years Ago, 2013 (Reprinted with permission from The Greeley Citizen.) The Greeley County Board of Commissioners held a public hearing on Tuesday afternoon at Greeley regarding a special use permit for GGPLC (PST) to operate two evaporative ponds at the Wolbach Foods hog confinement site west...

The Elm Creek Buffalo football team made the NSAA State Football Playoffs in 2016. In the last decade that I have been publisher of the newspaper at Elm Creek, the Buffaloes have made the playoffs numerous times; however, their run in 2016 is the one I think of the most.

The voter ID measure, a solution in search of a problem, has been thankfully watered down in legislative action that clearly indicates the wheels on the Republican juggernaut are wobbly, if not ready to come off.

Ten Years Ago, 2013 Jim Sidel of St. Paul, state commander of the American Legion, spoke at Wolbach’s Memorial Day services on Monday. Following the services in the auditorium, the crowd gathered at Hillside Cemetery for the twenty-onegun salute and the reading of the role of deceased veterans.

Ten Years Ago, 2013 Sara Paider, St. Paul’s new elementary principal, was introduced to the students at the end of the year activities in the elementary gym on Monday morning. She was accompanied by her son, Leyton, and daughter, Avery.

Ten Years Ago, 2013 A successful pancake feed for the benefit of the Wolbach Community Center was held on Sunday at the center. Ninety-one people were served and $1,092 was raised after expenses. The pancake mix was furnished by Doug and Jo Envoldsen, and the Lutheran church men supplied the syrup.

Ten Years Ago, 2013 Greeley-Wolbach will have two representatives at the 2013 state speech contest: Bryce Wood and Ryne Donovan. They double-qualified for state, placing first at the district contest in each of their Extemporaneous, Humorous Prose, and Duet events.

Ten Years Ago, 2013 The St. Paul FFA members competed in the District 8 Livestock Judging Contest at the Valley County Fairgrounds in Ord on Tuesday, March 12th… St. Paul’s team of Marissa Sell, Kelsey Scheer, Cole Scheer, and Jefferson Keller won the senior division… Individually, for the seniors,...

Ten Years Ago, 2013 Weather permitting, construction work is scheduled to resume the week of March 25th on US-34 in Grand Island between US-281 and South Locust Street, according to the Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR).