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“Danielle keeps repeating it over and over again. We’ve been back to this animal shelter at least five times.

From the Collection of Pat Young A Young boy had just gotten his driver’s permit and inquired of his father, an evangelist, if they could discuss his use of the car. His father took him into his study and said to the boy, “I’ll make a deal with you, son.

In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on.

Nebraska recently celebrated its 156th anniversary of statehood. To say the state’s years as a territory were exciting is an understatement. Saturday historical author Jeff Barnes of Omaha was the guest speaker at the Dawson County Historical Society annual meeting in Lexington. His topic was “The Mad Queen of the Prairies: The Frenzied First Years of the Nebraska Territory from 1854-1859.”

The Legion Auxiliary Unit 59 met at 6:30 p.m. at the Legion Hall in Callaway. We proceeded to start our meeting with Joyce Brestel reading a prayer. Deondra Lashley called our meeting to order. We proceeded with the reading of the minutes from our last meeting, they were approved as read. MaryAnn Boldt presented our fiscal report, and we are doing good.

Our February thaw is upon us, and it has turned the 20-plus inches of snow received during January until now into a soupy, sloppy mess. It has been four years since we’ve had to deal with mud and ruts that are axle deep – think 2019’s Bomb Cyclone and I don’t believe I need to elaborate more.

It’s hard to imagine life without stress. Our culture has normalized living in fight or flight mode and glorified the high performer and over achiever. Stress is ingrained in society to the point that the American Institute of Stress reported 55% of Americans are stressed during the day.

I believe…you shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.

After three weeks of “Planes, Streetcars, Ferries and Automobiles,” (OK, so it doesn’t have the ring of the movie by a more familiar name) we were back home from our travel adventures on Jan. 25.

Dear Editor, I want to express my appreciation and excitement for the hearty turnout to the meeting concerned citizen Kirk Hansel called together in January to discuss how to get Ryno Road restored to hard surface. Because of the weather, Kirk had to reschedule several times, but the meeting was finally held on Jan. 25.