After week three of the Spring Trap League, Mob County jumps into the lead with 601 followed by 1st Class Auto - 592, Ainsworth Golf Team - 587, Ripley Chevy - 580. Other teams are Berry Creek with 578, Doug’s Mobile - 575, Weed Eaters - 561, Weed Wackers - 549, and Hometown Lumber - 545.

Denise Adcock Denise Adcock is retiring after 18 years of teaching art at Ainsworth Community Schools. For the first half of her time here, she taught Elementary, Middle and High School Art Classes.

Following graduation practice on May 11th, the Ainsworth High School Class of 2022 walked through McAndrew Elementary to their class song, “The Good Old Days” by Macklemore, as they walked through the school one final time before AHS Graduation on May 15th.

The front page of the May 18, 1972 paper was all about, “Out With the Old...In With the New.” Star-Journal subscribers this week read an “all-new Ainsworth newspaper.” The size changed to a tabloid with more pages. The biggest change, however, was that type was now being set in the “latest photocomposition computers. Pictures are no longer converted to engravings, but instead are converted to screen negatives. The whole new process of printing by which the newspaper is produced this week is called lithography, or photo-offset.”

Area fire departments were called to a grass fire on Friday, May 13th southwest of Johnstown. A rancher was checking fences and the UTV he was driving started a grass fire when he stopped.

A total of 1,252 Brown County voters, 60.66% of the total 2,064 registered voters in the county, turned out to cast their ballots on Tuesday, May 10th during the 2022 Nebraska May Primary. The polling location for Brown County voters is the Ainsworth Conference Center.