Longtime area State Farm Insurance agent Joe Mlinar will be retiring come the end of April, bringing to an end his almost thirty- year tenure as an agent for Howard and Sherman counties, and the surrounding areas.

Author, advocate, and breast-cancer survivor Diane Simard, a Cotesfield native and graduate of Elba High School, returned to Howard County over the weekend, where she visited with family and friends as she signed copies of her books at The Resting Place, an event venue and tasting room for the Rivers Edge Winery in Elba.

Ten Years Ago, 2015 The updated, new, and improved Wolbach.com website is up and running. It will be updated with new pictures this spring.

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Two University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) students from the St. Paul area placed in events at the Nebraska Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Collegiate State Leadership Conference hosted Saturday and Sunday in Kearney: Cody Swinarski and Isaac Hagen.

Christ Lutheran Church has a new Little Lambs Preschool teacher: Mikayla Mrkvicka, a 2022 graduate of St. Paul High School.