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My family has a fondness for crime dramas and thrillers. It isn’t uncommon to watch a scene in which a peacefully sleeping individual wakes when a shadowy figure approaches their bedside with a pillow. Predictably, the assailant calmly presses that pillow over the face of their victim and waits until the struggling stops.

During the regular meeting of the Brown County Commissioners on January 2nd, the commissioners discussed enforcement of mowing roadside ditches. Brown County Highway Superintendent Kenny Turpin said he estimates approximately 50 miles of county roads were not mowed this past summer.

Two pediatric influenza-related deaths in Nebraska have been reported to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. Nationally, 20 children have died from flu this season according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The Long Pine City Council met in regular session on Thursday, January 4th with Dave Cheatum, Bryan Sandford and Andrea Collatos present. Councilwoman Linda Alberts was absent.

In his first taste of 11-man football, Carter Nelson looked right at home. The Nebraska tight end signee from Ainsworth was one of three future Huskers who took part in the All-American Bowl on Saturday, January 6th in San Antonio, TX.

The 2024 mountain lion hunting season in Nebraska’s Niobrara Unit closed January 7th when the harvest sublimit of one female was met. A 6-year-old collared female lion was shot north of Long Pine.

“Cards Make A Good Pass Time” Growing up on the farm south of Pilger, NE, I found learning to play card games when the winter weather struck was a good way to get through the storms. Of course, we would have to help dig out the place, help dad with the chores, scoop the sidewalks and when that was done, we hit the sleigh riding hills, built snow forts and snowmen.

Al Anon Mtgs. - 2nd Tuesday of Month Al Anon will meet at 8:00 p.m.

The Nebraska Rural Response Hotline, together with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture Beginning Farm Tax Credit and Negotiations Programs, and the Farm & Ranch Project of Legal Aid of Nebraska, are sponsoring free 3 - 4 hour workshops for farm and ranch families. These workshops will cover basic estate and succession planning (tools, considerations and decisions); the use of business entities in farm and ranch succession; finance and management issues in succession planning; transfer, death, and other tax issues, including the portability election; and options, buysell agreements, leases and preemptive rights. The aim of the program is educational: to provide reliable information that may assist farm and ranch families in putting together business succession plans, or in reviewing their existing plans.