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.

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.

“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.

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