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Congratulations to Joselyn Reiff of Callaway for being selected to play in the Masonic All-Star Marching Band. The Masonic All-Star Marching Band Camp is a one-week camp held in conjunction with the Nebraska Shrine Bowl on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Kearney.

The Callaway Board of Education met on June 12, with a fairly light agenda. The only item on the agenda requiring action from the board involved a new locking system for the building.

On Wednesday, June 28, state and local dignitaries and approximately 500 citizens from across the region gathered at the Gothenburg Industrial Tract, in the large brand-new Wearparts Tillage Tools building still under construction, for the announcement of a new business that will impact the ag community in the entire region.

In just six short weeks thousands of people will be converging on our area and gathering at Gothenburg’s Lake Helen for the annual Livin' Out Loud concert. Those people will be buying food, fueling up their vehicles, staying in area hotels and campgrounds, and visiting stores in surrounding communities. The event is a huge boon to the economy of our entire region - and takes a host of volunteers to pull off.

Grandpa used to talk about corn being knee-high by the fourth of July. When he was a young man, a corn crop was off to a good start if it was that tall by Independence Day. The old saying is no longer the standard, nor is grandpa still a young man; in fact, quite a little has changed since the 1950s. In 2023, in this part of the world, there will probably be corn shoulder high (or very near that) by the fourth of July.

Around the first of the year in 2022, Yvette Mannon of Oconto released her first children’s book. “Cookie, Where Are You?” is the saga of the Mannon’s blue heeler who set out on an adventure to find his way home.

This week, we at Syndicate Publishing are celebrating our 5th anniversary. It is hard to believe five years have already gone by since we set out on this journey and launched a brand-new newspaper in Gothenburg!

Have you found a home to purchase, but you need down payment assistance to make homeownership a reality? Then our Down Payment Assistance Program may be just for you! Central Nebraska Housing and Economic Developers (CNHED) provides down payment assistance funds, and minor rehabilitation funds, to income-qualified families who are looking to purchase a home. These funds are available to households in our 14-county region, which includes: Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Garfield, Greeley, Holt, Keya Paha, Loup, Rock, Sherman, Valley, and Wheeler Counties.

In a small town in rural Nebraska on a quiet street lined with trees and pickup trucks sits a little yellow house on a corner. In the window, there is a red, white, and blue sign that says: Home of the Free Because of the Brave. Inside, one of the brave – an army veteran – makes rural Nebraska home with help from USDA Rural Development. As Nebraska State Director for USDA Rural Development, this scene makes me proud. It is a snapshot of what USDA Rural Development is all about: taking pride in rural Nebraska and investing in the people who invest in America through their service, through producing food and fuel, and by building up rural communities.

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