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This month’s State Board of Education meeting convened on Thursday, March 2nd and Friday, March 3rd at the Marriott Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln.

How is it possible that we are already on the backside of March? The past month has flown by at a blistering rate and it seems like just a couple days ago that I was in Omaha for state wrestling. The daily grind of life must be catching up with me because I really don’t know where the time has gone.

As the third quarter draws to a close this week, this will mark an end to one of the busiest periods of time in Central City. Over the last few weeks, the Bison Activity Dome and the community of Central City have hosted a number of events.

Greetings from the Central City Chamber of Commerce! This column has been absent from our spot in the R-N for a few weeks however we have been busy catching up???? We held a successful Chamber Gala in January.

March Madness is officially here! Central City High School is headed back to the state basketball tournament for the first time in 76 years. The last team that competed in the NSAA State Basketball Tournament was in 1947.

Editor: The Webster dictionary describes love as a deep and tender feeling of affection to a person or persons. On Tuesday, February 14th it was a day where lovers showed their affection to one another through cards, flowers and giving of themselves.

I can’t explain my feelings as I sit here in my office typing this. In some ways I feel like I have crossed some sort of finish line after a week of absolute craziness.

Forgive me if you call and I don’t answer. I sit here now at my desk looking over at my that black box of technology dreading the next time that it will ring. I sit here in the midst of perhaps the most challenging week of my life and to think that it all began with a phone call on Friday afternoon.

Loren Lippincott, District 34 Senator As you’re getting to know me as your District 34 state senator, there’s something I want to state for the record: I firmly believe in American exceptionalism. The U.S.A.

This is the time of year that things seem to move very quickly. We are wrapping up our winter season for activities and getting ready to dive in the spring.