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An Open Letter to Parents
Do you want to know why there’s a teacher shortage? Why, this year, in Nebraska alone, there are approximately 1,000 open positions in education, why the number of post-secondary education majors is plummeting? I think any teacher, para, bus d...
Legislature entering final three weeks
This week, my personal priority bill, LB1301, was put before the Unicameral for the first stage of consideration. LB1301 would modernize our state’s existing laws relating to foreign land o...
Cross County upends Summerland's tourney dreams
The best laid plans often go awry. Such was the case, March 6, for the Summerland boys' basketball team. Unfortunately, the awry moment arrived at the Devaney Sports Center during the Bobcats'...
Bobcats advance to district final after two subdistrict wins
By the time this edition of SAM lands in readers' mailboxes, they'll know if the Bobcats will make a trip to the 2024 state basketball championships. Summerland was slated to play Perkins County,...
Daycare building expansion sent to village planning commission
Clearwater's Planning Commission will meet March 4 to make a recommendation about a building permit application for a local daycare. Following discussion at the Feb. 12 village meeting, trustees made...
Summerland's Jesse Thiele reaches 100-win mark on the mat
Jesse Thiele earned the 100th win of his wrestling career as the Bobcats went 1-1 at a home triangular on Tuesday, Jan. 23. Thiele joined an elite group of wrestlers to make Bobcat history. He's the...
Isms: Original views on life from rural America
Move aside, Carmela Soprano. I’m in my mob wife era. Cheetah print? You name it. I’ve got it. Shirts, skirts, dresses, jeans, sweaters, boots. You could say cheetah is one of my favorite colors. Ple...
Seed starting despite the outdoor weather
It’s a new year which leads into new garden ideas. Visions of growing, blooming plants come to mind while a coat of snow coats the backyard as I look out my kitchen window. Garden seed catalogs h...
Lone Frosh: At one Nebraska school, the entire freshman class is just Bailley
TAYLOR – Bailley Leibert walks into civics class and plops her sunflower-print backpack onto an empty table. The 15-year-old rummages for her notebook and colored pens. Around her are enough chairs t...
Spring tukey permits available
Spring turkey season permits are now available from the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Hunters also should reacquaint themselves with major changes from 2023. Those spring season changes that...
Future of energy will be considered in legislative session
As the harvest finishes and we enter the upcoming holiday season, senators remain hard at work preparing for the looming legislative session in January. One such topic I am investigating is the future...
Protecting seniors' access to healthcare
Nearly 1.2 million Americans live in nursing homes today. The vast majority of those Americans are seniors, people who urgently need the specialized care that long-term nursing facilities provide. Tha...
AMH receives double awards for excellence
This month, Antelope Memorial Hospital received both a national and state award for excellence. The hospital was first recognized for the 2023 Performance Leadership Award for excellence in quality an...
Mental health has improved in Nebraska, yet challenges remain
As the conversation and stigma surrounding mental health continue to evolve, access to care, or lack thereof, remains a barrier, even in the presence of heightened public awareness and empathy. “We need kind of both,” Dr. Marley Doyle said. “We...
Sunken Gardens prepares for winter with "Put the Beds to Bed" event
Not all gardeners are used to changing their gardens with the seasons, but the city of Lincoln has a routine for prepping its gardens for winter weather. Every fall, employees remove all the plants at the Sunken Gardens and host an event called “Put...
Isms: Original views on life from rural America
Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” is one of my favorite novels. Perhaps it’s because of the lyrical motion of the words she employs in telling the story of Jem and Scout and their father Atticus...
Up close and personal: Nebraska couple telling, showing, bison story to visitors
Their low, rumbling bellow first cuts through the silence of the Sandhills. Next comes the crunch of pointed hooves, trudging their way through tall prairie grasses. Then, the oohs of the...
Making internet access more affordable for rural Nebraskans
Infrastructure is often the first hurdle to high-speed internet access for rural Nebraskans, but it isn’t the last. Once the wires have been laid, residents still have to pay to use the service. S...
The secret behind Memorial Stadium's recent drone shows lies in Norfolk
They knew the record-breaking attendance number before the rest of the world. The iconic attendance number that hovered over the northeast corner of Memorial Stadium on the night of Aug. 30 was the...
Getting under your skin with varicose veins
From the back of our hands to the back of our legs, pale blue blood vessels are visible just under the skin. Oftentimes these veins are flat and not painful. However when these vessels become...
Area man goes to jail for latest domestic assault conviction
A Randolph man was recently sentenced to serve one year in the Antelope County Jail and fined $1,000 for his latest conviction of domestic assault Brennon J. Coleman, 39, previously of Neligh, was given credit for 15 days already served and was...
Pawnee scouts being recognized for protecting pioneers
KEARNEY – Americans have recognized military veterans in vastly different ways over the past 247 years. They've thrown parades for some and scorned others. But the Pawnee scouts, who protected p...
Breast cancer can affect anyone
My mother had six siblings, 16 aunts and uncles and innumerable cousins. She was the first of them all to be diagnosed with breast cancer. I think of my mom every time one of my patients tells me...
FFA test plot gives up-close look at how seed varieties perform
Area residents got a glimpse at the Summerland FFA test plot, Aug. 30, at Napier Farms near Ewing. One highlight of the plot was Preceon Smart Corn System. According to Mike Podany, of Clarkson, the...
Is prison-siting a matter of executive privilege too?
Editor’s Note: This column was written and distributed prior to an Aug. 30 press conference regarding prison location. We’ve known for some time that the state wants to build a new prison because it has the most overcrowded corrections system in the...
