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The Callaway American Legion Auxiliary monthly meeting started at 6:30 at the Callaway Legion Hall on Nov. 11, 2024. Our President Jane Lashley called the meeting to order. Our chaplain Joyce read the prayer. We said the Pledge of Allegiance, sang the Star Spangled Banner and recited our Auxiliary Preamble.

Fifty years is a long time for someone to serve as a volunteer EMT for the Oconto Rescue Squad, but Jan Rempe has done just that. Jan, her husband Jim, and several others in attendance at a retirement celebration for Jan, were in the first class to get EMT certified back in the 1970s. Jan has kept her certification up to date ever since by taking annual training to keep up her hours.

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We finally got around to it. All summer Cindy and I have been talking about a road trip to places important scientifically and historically and to see some geography we have never seen.

hot-button ballot initiatives on the ballot. Initiative 434, which would place the state’s current policy on abortion that allows the procedure only during the first 12 weeks of gestation, into the State Constitution, received overwhelming support from Custer County voters.

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Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested an Ohio man and safely rescued an abducted child following a pursuit on Saturday, Nov. 8.

Growing up in the small town of Dannebrog, Makayla Smith didn’t get a chance to see much of the world. In fact, she said she had only left Nebraska a handful of times to visit family in California and New York City by the time she graduated from Centura High School in 2008.

I don’t think young people today can truly appreciate the power of the Internet. By young people I mean anyone 50 or younger! Sure, they can surf the Internet and locate all kinds of stuff as well as download apps that only confuse us older folks, but truly appreciate that…I don’t think so.

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