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Apprentice spirit set dancers Faith Campa and Jessica Ohlman show off their moves during halftime of Saturday’s Central City Bison girls’ basketball game after a full week of training with the CCHS cheerleading squad. Theresa Lawrence owner of the Wishing Well shows Leading Locally students Jenna Blase and Taylor Lenz some of what it takes to operate a successful business.

Corn for grain production in Nebraska based on year-end surveys is estimated at 1.73 billion bushels, up 19% from 2022, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Yield of 182 bushels per acre is up 17 bushels from last year. Farmers harvested 9.50 million acres of corn for grain, up 8% from 2022. Corn for silage production is 4.76 million tons, down 11% from last year. Silage yield of 17.0 tons per acre is up 4.5 tons from last year. Corn for silage harvested acreage of 280,000 acres is down 150,000 acres from last year. Corn acreage planted for all purposes is 9.95 million acres, up 4% from last year.

Encouraging results of new data-driven fertigation, the spring weather forecast, and the Perkins Canal will all be featured at Central Platte NRD’s Annual Water Programs Update to be held Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at the Merrick County Fairgrounds in Central City. Guest speakers for the one-day event include: · KhrisStaton,Sentinel Fertigation Implementation Specialist Staton will share the results of 2023 N-time data-driven fertigation trials in central Nebraska.

High Plains Community School’s 4th and 5th graders in Mrs. Laura Hedrick’s class recently held a Poetry Cafe after finishing up their poetry units. Each week different students poems will be published to honor their hard work!

Every word of God is pure: Heisashielduntothemthatput their trust in Him. Proverbs 30:5 KJV Romans 5:1-11 KJV 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.