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MONDAY, AUGUST 25 Officer received an Adult Protective Services Intake. Officer received another Adult Protective Services Intake.
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Tickets on sale for Cook presentation
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Merrick Arts Council’s (MAC) 2025-26 season is quickly approaching with an opening show featuring former Husker Volleyball Coach John Cook. MAC is anticipating a big crowd for the John Cook presentation on September 28th at 2:00 p.m.
NEBRASKA STATE FAIR
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CENTRAL CITY Barrel Racer Remi Wells competed at the Nebraska State Fair High School Rodeo at the state fairgrounds at Fonner Park in Grand Island on Monday..
Senator’s Note
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Senator Loren Lippincott • District 34 In the wake of the immediate success of Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz”—the migrant detention and deportation facility built earlier this year in the Everglades—a similar facility is being planned for Nebraska, dubbed the “Cornhusker Clink.” The plan announced in August by Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen is to convert an existing minimum-security prison work camp in McCook to a facility that would hold 200 detainees initially, with potential to expand to 300. Of course there has been no shortage of controversy regarding the proposal, so let’s look at why such facilities are vital to public safety and our national interests.
CORN BOARD NOW ACCEPTING INTERNSHIP APPLICATIONS
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The Nebraska Corn Board (NCB) has now opened the internship application period for seven internship experiences beginning in May 2026. The internships vary in location, focus, and scope but are designed to provide students with an overview of Nebraska’s corn industry through real-world professional experiences.
Drone spraying conference a chance to learn, share
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When it comes to agriculture and spray drones, the sky is the limit. While that idiom is true figuratively and literally, speakers and others expressing sentiments shared optimism for the industry at the third annual Nebraska Ag and Spray Drone Conference at the Lifelong Learning Center.
From Our Files
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10 YEARS AGO Six-year-old Logan Sell and his little sister Katie, who is five, had a unique ask on the invitations they sent out to their birthday party. The two asked that guests bring gifts that they could donate to the pediatric patients at Litzenburg Memorial County Hospital in Central City.
CENTRAL CITY MARCHING BAND
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CENTRAL CITY MARCHING BAND
Share stand aims to create community
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Clarks residents hope stand helps build bonds About a month ago, the village of Clarks became the home of a new experiment in charitable giving. The Clarks Community Share Stand, set up on July 29th in Clarks’s Steven Myers Memorial Shelter and available virtually around the clock, is a place where people are encouraged to exchange various items, particularly fresh produce, plants and seeds, recipes and cookbooks, and fresh cut flowers.
RUDOLF LEAVES HISTORIC GIFT
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Legacy gift largest in Merrick Foundation’s history Merrick Foundation announced late last week that the foundation had received the largest gift in the organization’s sixty-fiveyear history. On Thursday, the foundation announced that Harold Rudolf had gifted the foundation $1,804,788 in endowed funds.