Season’s greetings from the Nebraska Poison Center! A friendly reminder that the holidays bring changes in routine and increase the risk of accidental exposure to poisons in the home. The Nebraska Poison Center would like to offer a few helpful holiday hints:

NASA’s Night Sky Network is one of the most successful and longstanding grassroots initiatives for public engagement in astronomy education. Started in 2004 with the Planet-Quest program out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and currently supported by NASA’s Science Activation, the Night Sky Network (NSN) is critical in fostering science literacy through astronomy.

Do you have your New Year Resolution ready? Do you even do resolutions at the beginning of each year? Here are a few sayings that were shared at the beginning of 2024. Maybe some of these will help you begin your new year by agreeing to some of these quotes: “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” -- Oprah Winfrey “New Year, New Feels, New Chances, Same Dreams, Fresh Starts.” -- Atticus Poetry “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” -- Nido Qubein “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” -- Vern McLellan “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson “New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” -- Auliq Ice “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” -- Taylor Swift “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” -- Melody Beattie “Cheers to the people who love us, the losers who lost us, and the lucky ones who still get to meet us.”

Most of my family dreads the thought of going to a museum with me. It really doesn’t matter what the museum is, or how interested they might be in the subject, they’d prefer to do something, perhaps anything, else.

(ALL MINUTES ARE UNOFFICIAL UNITL APPROVED AT THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING) December 17, 2024 The Brown County Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 1:15 p.m. in the Brown County Courthouse meeting room with members Chairman Dennis Bauer, Buddy Small and Jeremiah Dailey present. Also present were Brown County Clerk Assistant Lisa Chohon, Brown County Highway Superintendent (BCHS) Kenny Turpin, Brown County Sheriff (BCS) Brent Deibler, Brown County Assessor (BCA) Peg Gross, Brown County Weed Superintendent (BCWS) Scott Erthum, Brown County Zoning Administrator (BCZA) Tom Jones and Brown County Emergency Manager (BCEM) Tracy Booth.

Under the category of the unfinished business of termed-out senators, I wanted to offer some coaching to the new freshman class of Senators. In your first session, I would introduce five bills and I would make sure they went to five different committees.