Happ-enings
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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.
City Council Approves Library Lighting Upgrade
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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.
Boelus News
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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.
Playground Addition Proves to be Popular at SPPS
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St. Paul Public Schools welcomed two new additions to its playground in December, and the kids are going gaga.
St. Paul Senior Center in Need of Additional Volunteers
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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.
St. Paul Council Okays Roster Limits
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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.
Significant Weather System Impacts Howard County, State
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Mother Nature delivered a powerful punch of winter weather last week, with a winter storm causing closures, delays, and travel concerns across the area. The National Weather Service (NWS) in Hastings early last week announced a Winter Storm Warning would take effect for much of its service area beginning just after midnight on Wednesday, January 18th and continuing into midnight on Thursday.
St. Paul Community Library Earns Silver Accreditation
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After two years on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nebraska Library Commission reinstituted its Public Library Accreditation program in 2022. According to a press release issued by the commission last Thursday, twenty-nine libraries across the state were accredited at the end of December 2022.
Montemagnis Sell Loup River Distilling
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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.
Commissioners Reorganize to Start New Year
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The board’s annual reorganization took up the bulk of the Howard County Board of Commissioners’ first regular meeting in the new year on Tuesday, January 10th, but several other items also appeared on the commissioners’ docket.