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This Monday, January 5th, marked the first day in which candidates could file to run for elected office this year in the state of Nebraska. Individuals seeking offices on the statewide primary ballot may now submit their paperwork to officially enter the race.

Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol arrested eighty-three impaired drivers during the holiday season. The arrests came during the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over nationwide campaign.

The St Michaels Knights of Columbus Local Free Throw Championship will be held in Central City at the Bison Activities Dome on Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 1:00. This is for girls and boys 9-14 years of age. Doors will open at 12:15.

AYS... “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Thank you all who distributed and picked up kettles, organized and scheduled bellringers, volunteered, and donated from the heart for Salvation Army this holiday season. God bless, Deb Beck, Salvation Officer of Merrick County.

Senator Loren Lippincott • District 34 Living in Germany while serving in the U.S. Air Force in the 1980s and then flying worldwide for Delta from 1990 until 2020 gave me a front row seat to the transformation that has taken place over the last forty years in many places around the world, including many of our own larger cities.

The Merrick County Historical Museum will hold its annual membership meeting on Sunday, January 11th, as the organization prepares to open its new museum facility later this year. Doors will open at 1:00 p.m.