McKeon looks to learn in freshman year
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The first session of the State of Nebraska’s 109th Legislature got underway on Wednesday morning, with representatives of the state’s legislative districts sworn into office and officially inducted into their duties as state legislators. In an interview last Friday, just five days before the start of the session, Dan McKeon, newly elected state senator for Nebraska’s 41st Legislative District, said he was about as ready as he would ever be.
Municipal police department kept busy during past year
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The St. Paul Police Department (SPPD) recently released its 2024 calls for service statistics from the Howard County Communication Center, giving a window into the activities of the municipal police department over the past 365 days.
First major winter storm of the season besets area
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A winter storm that developed over the central United States on Saturday night brought the first major snow of the season to much of the area over the weekend. Communities throughout central Nebraska saw snow between Saturday night and Monday. In the National Weather Service of Hastings’s coverage area, southern Nebraska and northern Kansas saw the bulk of the accumulation.
NOTICE OF MEETING
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Notice is hereby given that a public meeting of the Board of Education of the Central Valley School District #39-0060 will be held on Monday, January 13, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. at the school library at Scotia. The agenda for such meeting is available for public inspection at the office of the superintendent.
MEMORIALS
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Doug and Jo Enevoldsen made a donation to the American Legion Post 236 in memory of Larry Rosander. Steve and Peggy Petersen made a donation to the Wolbach Fire Department and Rescue Squad in memory of Larry Rosander.
Remember when
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Taken from the files of The Wolbach Messenger Ten Years Ago, 2015 Trey Nekoliczak was the only Central Valley wrestler to place at the tough eighteen team Wrestling Tournament at Burwell on last Friday. Nekoliczak, now 15-0 on the season, won the 126 pound weight division and is currently placed first in the Class D rankings.
Boelus News
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On a cold Sunday morning, the river flows were as follows: The South Loup River was down a bit, reading 151 cubic-feet-per-second (cfs), the Middle Loup River at St. Paul was down quite a bit at 613 cfs (about sixty percent of normal, which is 1,019 cfs), and the North Loup River at St. Paul was down a few cfs. That river had a reading of 1,030 cfs.
DAYS GONE BY
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“It was time.” That was what H. Petersen and Sons Lumber Company owner Bob Petersen, Jr. of Dannebrog said of the closing of the business in Dannebrog in December...The business had been in his family since 1885, when his great-grandfather, Hans Christian Petersen, purchased the lumber company in Dannebrog and renamed it H. Petersen and Sons Lumber Company. At that time, the lumber company was located where Oak Street Manor is today. It was eventually moved to a location on the highway, across the street to the south of the present Mel’s Service building. The final location was at 503 South First Street, on the southern edge of Dannebrog.