June 27 - July 3, 2021 Sunday, June 27th Responded to reports of a speeding vehicle on west Hwy. 20.

Question: I have heard that you can put a tomato seed in a potato and plant it and you will get both crops in one place. Will this work? From a growing standpoint, it would be interesting.

Ainsworth High School FFA held a blood drive for the American Red Cross on Tuesday, July 6th at the Catholic Church. Tanya Cole (left) along with 52 other local residents stopped by the church on Tuesday to donate blood.

North Central District Health Department (NCDHD) has been made aware of 13 new COVID-19 cases in the district since last reporting period on July 6th, 2021: Boyd-1, Antelope-2, Brown-2, Holt-2, Rock-3, Knox-3. Recoveries will be updated in next week’s posting.

After four plus months of waiting for our printing plates to come in, finally, on Friday, July 9th, we received 50 of them with the rest to come in this week. Without these printing plates we use on our web press Mabel, we had to make alternative plans to get the newspapers printed at Rocket Printing in Armour, SD.

The President of the United States has ordered the US military out of Afghanistan by August 31st of this year. This withdrawal of troops is called a “retrograde” operation. It is the most difficult and risky of all tasks you can ask soldiers to do in combat. Retrograde operations are never pretty. They are prone to turning into another form of operational maneuver called a “pursuit” (the enemy chasing you as you try to leave). No President wants that on the evening news, which is why the press isn’t being allowed anywhere near this one.