Newsletter-Late-Week

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Mark your calendars and grab your favorite flannel shirt—the 58th Annual AppleJack Festival is back and bigger than ever, serving up two weekends of orchard adventures, small-town charm, and caramel-apple-coated nostalgia.

The Nebraska Community Foundation (NCF) helps small towns across the state accomplish big things.

CHI Health St. Mary’s, the Nebraska City Police Department, Wellbeing Initiative, the Otoe County Sheriff Department, and other community partners are proud to announce the launch of the Comeback Eradicating Rural Addiction (ERA) program.

Author Dean B. Settle visited the Nebraska City Rotary Club Aug. 27 to discuss his new book, “Inside Nebraska Courthouses.” Settle and his late wife, Harriet R. Grossbart, embarked on a year-long journey across the state in 2023 to photograph all 93 county courthouses, inside and out. Settle said the trip took 28,000 miles to complete, and he took more than 6,000 photos of the historic structures. Settle and his Corgi, Miss Nora, traveled to 11 western counties to finish the photographs after Grossbart passed away from cancer. Each courthouse has a facing set of pages: one with text and what Settle calls “kickshaws,” which are little interesting items about the county or the building itself, and the second page with photos. Visit https://insidenebraskacourthouses.com for more information.