Full Disclosure: My wife and I drive a fouryear- old hybrid sedan. It runs on the electric motor up to fifteen miles -per- hour before the gasoline engine engages. It feels and sounds like it’s dead at stop signs. It averages forty-four miles-pergallon in highway driving.

I have to tell you, I feel as though, recently, my luck has kind of run out. At least when it comes to games of chance.

Taken from the files of The Wolbach Messenger Ten Years Ago, 2014 Members of the Greeley-Wolbach FCCLA Chapter participated in the District 9 Students Taking Action for Recognition (STAR) events on Wednesday, January 29th at West Boyd High School in Spencer.

I was not shocked, just disappointed when Governor Jim Pillen announced that he was going to reduce Nebraska’s collective property taxes by two billion dollars this year, somehow. Imagine that.

In mid-January, the St. Paul High School boys’ wrestling team won its third consecutive conference title.

Omaha Senator Justin Wayne, chair of the Judiciary Committee, has offered a bill that would put Nebraska’s Legislature in charge of the state’s prison system, which is currently under the purview of the executive branch.

Years ago, when my family and I took a summer vacation to Yellowstone National Park, my mother had one very specific souvenir of our trip in mind. She wanted a rock.

Comments from two state senators from Omaha have pretty much diminished hopes for a “normal” session of the Nebraska Legislature this year. “I think it will be a difficult session again.

I have to admit, at this time last week, I would have had a hard time coming up with a handful of facts that I knew about the state of South Carolina.

Ten Years Ago, 2014 The Wolbach Community Center Board has a goal to pay off the debt on the new community center by the end of 2014. The community center opened its doors to the public in September 2012.