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  • Sunset Store volunteers make the shift to a new site

    LuAnn Schindler, Publisher|Jan 8, 2025

    That simple, snappy motto - We sell the best and recycle the rest - perfectly describes Ewing's Sunset Store. Originally opened in 2008 in the village's vacant lumber yard, the thrift shop has thrived through two relocations in its 16-year history. Now, volunteers are putting the finishing touches on the store's forever home in the former Ewing school building. Finding the store is as easy as ABC. Visitors can enter the former high school building through the southeast entrance, then proceed to...

  • Rodeo Roots

    LuAnn Schindler|Nov 13, 2024

    When Larry and Judy Parker moved to Clearwater in 1965, little did they know they would spark the idea for one of the hottest rodeo tickets in Nebraska. On Nov. 9, Clearwater Chamber of Commerce honored the Judy Parker, the late Larry Parker and Steve Patras, of Clearwater, for orchestrating the first Clearwater Rodeo in 1967 and named the new building on the grounds the Double P Tack Room. Larry Parker died in 2004, in an automobile accident near Mission, South Dakota. During Saturday's event,...