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  • What's the price of Thanksgiving dinner

    LuAnn Schindler, Publisher|Nov 28, 2019

    Slice the turkey, add a slab of ham and pile the whipped cream on a piece of pumpkin pie. Toss a few veggies and dinner rolls on the side and the Thanksgiving feast you plan for family Thursday will cost, on average, one shiny copper penny more than one year ago. According to the 34th annual American Farm Bureau Federation survey of Thanksgiving Day dinner prices, the cost of serving the holiday dinner for 10 averages $48.91. The survey is based on average costs gathered by 250 volunteer...

  • Woman to taste Thanksgiving in jail

    Sandy Schroth, Editor|Nov 28, 2019

    The Honorable Donna Taylor had a busy day in court last Wednesday, when she passed sentence on 11 individuals in the Antelope County courtroom at Neligh. Taylor sent Twila Guggenmos, 59, of Oakdale to the Antelope County Jail to serve a 10-day sentence for a conviction of reckless driving, with credit given for one day previously served. The judge further ordered the $135 bond fee held by the county be applied to $141.61 costs, and the balance be paid prior to release, or sit out an extra day...

  • Community church service planned in Ewing

    Nov 21, 2019

    Ewing-area churches will host a community Thanksgiving service at the Church of Christ, in Ewing, Sunday, Nov. 24, at 7 p.m. Fellowship time will follow the service. Snacks will be served....

  • Negotiations to proceed with Orchard teachers for next term

    Sandy Schroth, Editor|Nov 21, 2019

    Orchard Advisory Board of Education members, Candace Hoke, Kristi Schutt, DeAnna Clifton and Nate Schwager, will be joined by Original Orchard Board of Education members Terra Williby and Terri Hergert, beginning with the December meeting, as they work to dissolve Nebraska Unified District 1 and begin transition efforts to the new Summerland school. Hergert and Williby sat in the audience at the Nov. 13 Advisory Board meeting held at Orchard High School. Both Schutt and Cathy Cooper, Orchard principal, said they had fielded questions from...

  • New school Civics law in effect

    LuAnn Schindler, Publisher|Sep 5, 2019

    Changes to the way Nebraska students learn about civics went into effect Sept. 1, revamping a law which originally entered the books in 1949. A school board's committee on Americanism is now known as the committee on American civics, thanks to passage of Legislative Bill 399, introduced by Sen. Julie Slama, of Peru. The bill requires two committee meetings per calendar year, where public testimony can be entered into the record for each district. Slama, who did not respond to a SAM request for...