September 2022

On the first Sunday in November, people across North America will adjust their clocks, turning them back one hour and thus returning Daylight Saving Time back to Standard Time. When spring arrives anew, the clocks once again will move forward an hour. This phenomenon has taken place for more than 50 years.

The Nebraska City tennis team picked up a dual win over Omaha Roncalli on Tuesday, Sept. 20.

The Peru State athletic department recently announced the hiring of Renita “Toni” Closner to head the Bobcat softball program. Last season the Bobcats went 15-32 overall and 10-26 in Heart of America Athletic Conference play.

Nebraska City earned a split of a volleyball triangular on Sept. 15 with a win against Auburn and a set back against Falls City to move the team’s season record to 5-5.

Pet ownership is rewarding in various ways, and those rewards could be one reason why pet owners are welcoming additional pets into their homes, even if only temporarily. According to the 2021-2022 biennial APPA National Pet Owners Survey by the American Pet Products Association, 11 percent of pet owners also foster pets. The selfless act of fostering saves the lives of an untold number of animals each year, as shelters confronting overcrowding may not have the resources necessary to keep pets healthy until they find an adoptive parent. For example, the ASPCA notes that neonatal (zero to four weeks) and pee-wee (four to eight weeks) kittens are extremely vulnerable and do not often survive without round-the-clock care. Overburdened shelters with limited resources are not always capable of providing such care. In such instances, shelter- sponsored fostering programs teach foster caregivers how to care for kittens so they can survive the first eight weeks and stay healthy enough to be spayed or neutered and ultimately adopted