The Howard County Board of Commissioners covered a number of items during its first regular meeting of the month of May last Tuesday, May 13th. The new Howard County roads building under construction near the Howard County Fairgrounds was the subject of discussion during a brief update from Howard County Highway Superintendent Janet Thomsen.

Before dirt is turned and construction gets underway on an expansion at St. Paul Public Schools, district leaders have decided that, first, they want the district’s patrons to vote on the project.

Sunday afternoon checking the river flows, the South Loup River is at 121 cubic-feet-per-second (cfs), compared to 123 cfs last week. The Middle Loup River on Sunday was at 884 cfs, with a low this week of 515 cfs.

Chadron State College recently honored 245 candidates for bachelor’s degrees and sixty-five candidates for master’s degrees during their annual commencement exercises at the Chicoine Center. Undergraduate senior Ella O’Brien of Chadron offered the opening moment of reflection for the combined ceremony and graduate student Kylie Kempf of Carroll offered the closing moment of reflection.

Anyone who is interested in advertising your business in the Junk Jaunt Shoppers’ Guide is asked to contact Alice Osterman-Davis at (308) 750-5009 or Kathy Kurz at (308) 750-4944. The deadlines for business ads in the guide is July 1st. Either Osterman-Davis or Kurz can be contacted for advertising forms to mail in.

Reminder: The Memorial Day (Monday) service will be held at the Elba Cemetery at 9:00 a.m. All are welcome to attend.

Reminder: The Memorial Day (Monday) service will be held at the Elba Cemetery at 9:00 a.m. All are welcome to attend.