On June 14th at 8:30 a.m., a meeting conducted by Ainsworth Community Schools will take place in the school cafeteria. The purpose of the meeting is to provide an opportunity for parents who have parentally placed their child in an approved and/or accredited nonpublic school or exempt home school and representatives of nonpublic schools to participate in the development of a plan for providing special education services to children with disabilities who attend an approved and/or accredited nonpublic school and exempt home schools which are within the Ainsworth Community Schools District for the 2021-2022 school year.

During Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts’ press conference on Monday, May 24, 2021, he announced that the State of Nebraska is discontinuing its Directed Health Measures, effective at midnight on May 24th. Ricketts will also be rescinding several executive orders that he had issued during the coronavirus pandemic that will be rescinded on June 1, 2021.

Challenge yourself to explore the Niobrara River Valley to commemorate of the 30th anniversary of the Niobrara National Scenic River. Niobrara National Scenic River became a unit of the National Park Service on May 24, 1991. Join the Niobrara River Challenge by hiking, floating and seeing the film in the Visitor Center and earn a limited-edition bandana courtesy of Cherry County Tourism.

Ainsworth Community Schools and Lunchtime Solutions are doing their part to help youth ages 18 years old and younger by making sure they don’t go hungry on weekdays (excluding holidays) from May 24th - July 9th.

In June 2018 prior to the most recent election the state was working with Brown County Assessor’s office to equalize the homes in Ainsworth with helping Charlene build a new appraisal model in the computer system. This help included sales maps, land study, and depreciation study. I was not in office at that time but I spoke to Bryan Hill, appraiser for the state, who trained Charlene on how to create and use the model and then he caught me up once I took office. The model was completed in 2019 while still under guidance of the state. It was created at the time on actual Ainsworth sales for the prior three years. Part of that study was looking at sales over the entire town to see if homes sell higher or lower in any areas. It was determined at that time that North of the Cowboy trail those homes sold slightly higher if there were equal components to the home. Therefore two different neighborhood market areas were created. Features like square foot, age, quality, condition, number of bathrooms, roofing, HVAC, siding, etc help to determine the value. Of course, in this office it is done in mass versus for one particular home like the one a fee appraiser would do for a home loan. That means that we do not look inside many of the homes as they do. We would look in a home, along with the homeowner, only if there is a protest. This does NOT mean that you should not come talk to us in the office to ask questions about your value. We actually encourage that!! Just to be clear, the State of Nebraska has created a formal protest process that can be found here https://revenue.nebraska.gov/files/doc/pad/info/Real_Property_Valuation_Protest_Info_Guide.pdf.

The Ainsworth Track Team competed in the 2021 Class C NSAA State Track meet and earned four medals. The 2021 Class C NSAA State Track Meet was held in Omaha on Friday, May 21st and Saturday, May 22nd.