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Have fun "wearin' the green" and be safe!

 

 

 

 

 

Village Board Meeting Tonight (Wednesday)

Village Library - 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

 

 

 

Glad to hear Glenda & Phil are both back home. Continued get well wishes to them. Also to Baby Peterson, Sandi Kimbell, Nina Rohlfs and Dwight Kastens.

 

 

 

 

 

Hasn't the weather been nice (except for that wind)? We'll probably pay for it before the month is over! The rain on Monday was nice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chose to paint a wine bottle with lights or try your hand at pour painting!

All supplies provided. Cost $25. (less for small canvases). Contact Sharon Demaree, Peggy Leefers, Sue

Saathoff --- or stop into the Library.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Condolences to Lee & Mary Margaret Clark on the loss of their grandson in Missouri.

 

 

 

 

 

Every once in a while Bob and I venture outside of Otoe County. Sunday afternoon we first went to Hamburg, Iowa, to see old buildings they are going to demolish. We also found several abandoned houses on the west side of town. Then we took the backroad to Rock Port and looked at all the work they are doing there. The visibility on 136 to Brownville was horrible due to the dirt in the air was mixed with smoke from a large fire between I-29 and the river. After we crossed the bridge, we went down towards the water to look at the riverboats and the park. We could see the road had been covered with a couple feet of mud.

 

 

The picnic tables were submerged in dirt up past the benches.

 

It was just sad to see all the damage that still remains. We learned at the winery that the town's business dropped by 30% while the bridge was closed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

 

3-12   Ron & Lori Vodicka

3-13   Leonard Lemka

3-14   Kenny Baker

3-17   Ryder Lee Schmidt, Sharon Van Housen

 

 

 

NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO

 

Friday, 3-12-1920, The Otoe Union:

The state was urging farmers to raise sheep and the wives to try their hand at growing strawberries. Charles Kenton and Carl Fey left for Wyoming to take up homesteads. Mr. Butler, manager of the Fairmont Creamery, located in the Carper Harness Shop building (now the Post Office). George Leverett Seymour died in Lincoln and was buried at Park Hill. He clerked for several years at a store in Unadilla, and later joined Fallers & Joyce in Syracuse.

 

 

 

 

Treasurer’s Unclaimed Property Tabloid to be Published in Nebraska Newspapers

(Lincoln, NE) Treasurer John Murante announced today the 2020 Unclaimed Property Annual Report will be published in 16 Nebraska newspapers in the coming weeks, beginning March 8 in the Omaha World-Herald and the Scottsbluff Star-Herald.

“I encourage Nebraskans to check the Unclaimed Property Report for their own names and the names of their businesses, as well as the names of family members and friends. We may have property you are entitled to, and we want to get you your money,” Murante said.

“While the Unclaimed Property Report is a valuable way for the public to find out about any holdings they may be unaware of, I want to encourage everyone to check out our online database at www.NebraskaLostCash.gov, which is constantly updated.”

The 2020 Tabloid represents $22,786,778 in new unclaimed property reported since last year’s publication. The report will be published as a 28-page tabloid insert in 16 Nebraska newspapers, as required by State Statute, according to the following schedule:

Sunday, March 8:                     Omaha World Herald

                                                Scottsbluff Star-Herald

Friday, March 20:                     Holdrege Citizen

                                                McCook Gazette

Saturday, March 21:                 Beatrice Daily Sun

                                                Columbus Telegram

                                                Fremont Tribune

                                                Hastings Tribune

                                                Kearney Hub

                                                Norfolk Daily News

                                                York News-Times

Sunday, March 22:                   Grand Island Independent

                                                Lincoln Journal Star

                                                North Platte Telegraph

Wednesday, March 25:             Alliance Times-Herald

                                                Sidney Sun-Telegraph

                                   

The Nebraska Treasurer’s Unclaimed Property Division returned $13,663,918 in unclaimed property and paid 17,786 claims in 2019, up from 16,932 claims in 2018.

 

 

 

 

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