Body Taken from the files of The Wolbach Messenger Ten Years Ago, 2015 The Central Valley girls won last weekend’s Grand Island Islanders March Madness Volleyball Tournament by going 10-0 at the tournament.

Body Late last Wednesday night, with the world still recovering from a late-season blizzard, I found myself bent over the tank of my toilet. I am not a plumber.

Body St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone, but as always, you probably saw buttons reading “Kiss me, I’m Irish” from all sorts of people, Irish or not.

Body Growing up in rural Nebraska, there is a skill that, throughout your life—farmers and ranchers master it much quicker than others— you have to learn. That is how to properly, and somewhat gracefully, climb over, through, or under barbed wire fences.

Body It’s tax season, and who doesn’t dislike filing their taxes? It takes time away from things like checking on the latest Husker football recruit or seeing what new fight we’re having with Canada.

Body I literally sprinted down main street in Elm Creek. It was August, it was hot, and that week’s edition of the Elm Creek Beacon-Observer was sitting on the dock at the post office.

Body It’s daylight savings time, so let’s turn back the clock… to four years ago, when the state was still contending with the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a silver lining of sorts to those awful days—a huge influx of federal funds to keep the economy going.

Body The old joke around the state capitol is that legislators get paid “$12,000 a year and all you can eat and drink.” That is a reference to all the free meals— and, okay, maybe a drink or two—dispensed at the almost daily events hosted by lobbying groups during legislative sessions.

Body In a dozen years publishing newspapers, I have learned that there is an item or two that it is wise to shy away from, even on the opinion page. However, this week, I am throwing caution into the wind and tiptoeing into the water of controversy.

Body Admittedly, when you live alone like I do, there really isn’t much use in setting house rules, let alone following them. After all, if you track in mud, you are the one that is going to have to clean it up.