Emily Whipple, the Agricultural Education Instructor at Ainsworth Community Schools, was awarded the Outstanding Early Career Teacher Award by the Nebraska Agricultural Educators Association (NAEA) at the NAEA Awards Ceremony held on June 7th at the Nebraska Career Education Conference. Award winners are nominated and selected by their peers.

Brown County District Court was in session on June 13, 2023 withJudge Mark Kozisek presiding. The People were represented by Brown County Attorney Andy Taylor.

Brown County Report June 11th - 17th, 2023 Sunday, June 11th Responded to a report of a disturbance at a hotel in Ainsworth. Parties were separated for the night.

“Welcome Home AHS Alumni ” As you enter the City limits of Ainsworth, we hope you have a great stay this weekend for your Class Alumni. Memorial Day weekend, Rod and I went back for our Class of 1973s - 50th Class Reunion in Wisner, NE.

In 1966, the good people of Nebraska had grown tired of paying high property taxes. They collected the needed signatures on a ballot initiative and they put the question on the November ballot. By a margin of 50.89% to 49.11% the people of Nebraska passed a constitutional amendment that did away with the “State Property Tax.”

One Small Step for Prison Reform in the Face of New Prison Construction So, this is prison reform? At this point, it’s something and we’ll cling to every little bit of it while the Republican majority anticipates the building of a new prison, which will do little, if anything, to alleviate overcrowding An omnibus bill sponsored by Omaha Sen. Justin Wayne and signed into law by Governor Jim Pillen creates several programs intended to improve the state’s criminal justice system, including a program to expand problem-solving courts, a pilot program to establish parole-violation residential housing and a probationer incentive program.