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Help Needed For Kite Flight Clean-Up Callaway residents are encouraged to gather at Foster Smith Field on Wednesday, Aug. 28 at 5:30 p.m. to pitch in on the Kite Flight Clean-Up night. All help is appreciated. The Chamber is also still looking for volunteers to help. If you are available and willing, please contact Kindle Rice or stop at First Interstate Bank.

Secretary of State Bob Evnen announced this past week that an agenda item to consider restoring voting rights to individuals with felony convictions who registered to vote under LB53 was taken off the agenda of the Nebraska State of Nebraska Board of Pardons meeting. The request was made in light of the Nebraska Supreme Court’s acceptance of a case that challenges the constitutionality of Secretary Evnen’s instruction to cease voter registrations for those with felony convictions.

This weekend the Village of Callaway will welcome hundreds of visitors for an annual event that has become a staple in central Nebraska – Kite Flight. It happens every Labor Day weekend at Foster Smith Field, four miles southeast of Callaway on Highway 40.

These are from a book called “Disorder in the Court”. These are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters. How did they keep from laughing while these were all taking place?

The doors of Callaway Public School opened the morning of Thursday, Aug. 15, to welcome returning students back and new students in for the 2024-25 school year.

The following cases have been designated as closed by the Clerk of Custer County District Court for the month of July. July 1 – State of NE v Branden J.

The Custer County Jail reports 11 males and no females as of Aug. 19, 2024.

For the 12th year thousands of people converged on Lake Helen in Gothenburg for the Livin’ Out Loud music festival, and organizers agreed this was another very successful event. LOL Board President Joe Wahlgren said crowd estimates on Saturday evening, Aug.

The Callaway American Legion Auxiliary monthly meeting started at 6:30 at the Callaway Legion Hall on Aug. 12, 2024. Our President Jane Lashley called the meeting to order. Our chaplain Joyce read the prayer. We said the Pledge of Allegiance, we sang the Star-Spangled Banner and recited our Auxiliary Preamble.