Youth from the BKR 4-H Club presented entries at the 2023 Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island. Following are individual results: Kimberlyn Doke of Ainsworth: Design Decisions - stone marker blue.

402-387-1294 Activities Thursday, September 7th: 10:30 a.m. - Let’s Paint A Picture; 2:30 p.m.

Chef Salad Available Daily Thursday, September 7th: Polish sausage, sauerkraut, baked beans, jello with fruit and milk. Friday, September 8th: Meatloaf, scalloped potatoes, spinach, mandarin oranges, muffin and milk.

Ainsworth Library Board to Meet The Ainsworth Library Board will hold its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, September 13th at 5:00 p.m. at the Ainsworth Public Library.

Looking up in awe at the night sky, the stars and planets pop out as bright points against a dark background. All of the stars that we see are nearby, within our own Milky Way Galaxy. And while the amount of stars visible from a dark sky location seems immense, the actual number is measurable only in the thousands. But what lies between the stars and why can’t we see it? Both the Hubble telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) have revealed that what appears as a dark background, even in our backyard telescopes, is populated with as many galaxies as there are stars in the Milky Way.

Landowners interested in the Special Landowner Deer Season must access their customer profile and update their land information on the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s new permit system, which went live in 2023.