When in life does one come to confront the tough truth that each of us will eventually die? In my years as an internist caring for young and old alike, some people understand this early, and some people never get it. In denying death, we intensify our fear of it. Usually, however, it is sometime during their 50s that people first look into the eyes of death. Put it off as we may, the hard certainty is that we are all aging and one day an end will come. Shakespeare described advanced age in his play As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII (All the world’s a stage): “. . . Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans (without) teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

Warmer weather and longer days are starting to show up, giving so many of us hope and excitement for the new growing season. Even though it is very tempting to start yard and garden work to clean up from the winter, we need to beware of “False Spring”, where the warm days can be followed by cold snaps and potential spring blizzards that will visit the region at some point in March and April.

Summarized - All Cases Include $ 50.00 Court Cost Richard A. Moore: Speeding 16-20 MPH, $125.00 Fine; Agency and Officer Not Found.

Brown County Report February 26 - March 4, 2023 Sunday, February 26th Received a traffic complaint near the intersection of Rauscher Avenue and 881st Road involving a vehicle not stopping at the stop sign. The vehicle was later observed stopping at the sign.

“Celebrating 90 Years” This past weekend, we went to Norfolk to celebrate my dad’s 90th birthday. Memories, sharing family history and visiting with other relatives who were in attendance made for a great Sunday afternoon.

In the seven sessions that I have been a senator, 2023 marks the fourth time I have introduced Constitutional Carry. As a freshman in 2017, I introduced a model bill from another state that was not really adopted to Nebraska. We got a Judiciary Committee hearing at the end of March, and the bill went nowhere: No debate, no votes, nothing. That was part of the learning curve for me as a rookie.