Barb Dvorak hosted the Monday Nite Bridge Club on Monday. During the meeting, Rose Bouchard won high, Dvorak took second high, and Lola Teter received the traveling prize.

The Wolbach Senior Citizens met on November 20th at the Wolbach Community Center, with ten guests present. The seniors played pitch, and the winners were Dick Peetz, high; Jan Steenson, low; and Paul Nielsen, traveling. The senior citizens will meet again on December 18th, at 2:00 p.m., at the Wolbach Community Center.

The Howard County Board of Commissioners covered a lot of ground at their November 26th regular meeting. A public hearing for a conditional use permit (CUP) for a private airstrip, an update on the Blase feedlot operation’s work to meet Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (NDEE) compliance schedule, and two moves into executive session took up the majority of the almost four-hour meeting.

Sunday morning, the Middle Loup River is a bit higher than last Friday, while the North Loup River is down. The South Loup River is at 167 cubic feet per second (cfs), the Middle Loup River is at 1,340 cfs, and the North Loup River’s reading is 733 cfs. What I found interesting is that the Middle Loup River at St. Paul overnight went from a low of 1,070 to a high of 1,440 cfs and now it’s on its way down again. I don’t have any idea why it did that.