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Chadron State College has announced the names of students who qualified for the Dean’s List for the Spring 2025 semester. To be eligible, students must have completed at least 12 credit hours of coursework, be pursuing their first bachelor’s degree, maintain a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or higher, and have no incomplete grades.

Merrick Foundation has awarded $34,725 in grants to support a variety of community-based programs and projects during its second- quarter grant cycle. These funds will benefit youth, education, the arts, public libraries, and more throughout Merrick County.

Taryn Wagner of Archer, was named to the University of Sioux Falls Spring 2025 Dean’s List. Wagner is majoring in Nursing.

The first pre-hospital emergency care in the Central City area was provided by the local funeral home. Solt Funeral Home ran the ambulance service until the early 60’s when Julian & Althea Byers bought the funeral home and took over the ambulance service as well. Byers ran the ambulance service until 1967 when they could no longer continue due to the increasing demands.

Overwatering is common and it harms plants not to mention water waste. Underwatering is also harmful, especially in hot, windy weather. How can we know we are watering correctly? Most homeowners would like a recommendation such as once a week for 30 minutes or 5 gallons every few days.

Workers took advantage of some rare good weather on Monday to remove the wood-shake roofing material from the Central City Pubic Library. The nine-man crew arrived on Monday morning to begin the two to three day process of removing the twenty-five-year-old roof.