October 2024

Thank a Farmer Today

As Third District farmers round out the fall harvest season, it is an appropriate time to note how hard agriculture producers work to feed and fuel the world and how this drives our state’s economy.In recent years, farmers and ranchers have battled historically high inflation and input costs, wildfires, unpredictable weather, and disastrous storms.

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Countdown

The “how many days till Christmas?” just doesn’t have the same excitement about it for me any more.

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State Medal

Isabelle Johnson, a senior on the Nebraska City girls’ golf team, picked up a 10th place medal during action at the Class B state tournament in Gering last week.

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Human trafficking discussing at NC Rotary

About 900 people a month are trafficked in Nebraska, either by labor traffickers or sex traffickers.Nebraska is somewhere between the second and the 16th highest state for instances of human trafficking, depending on which set of statistics are used for comparison.Richard Baier of the Nebraska Banking Association (NBA) came to the Nebraska City Rotary Club to discuss the problem of human trafficking, along with ways people can identify signs of trafficking, on Oct.

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