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Edgar’s Sugar Shack Home Decor is included

February 2024 was third warmest on record in Tri Cities region, the warmest in 70 years

After several years of development, the Blue River Basin model is complete and is already being used to evaluate possible water use impacts in the Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District. Given the drought conditions in much of the district in the last growing season, this resource is especially timely as it will help the NRD board to “protect water supply for all beneficial purposes,” one of the 12 areas of responsibility shared by all NRDs and dictated by state statute.

Vacations, silent and live auctions to headline event

You will not want to miss this Saturday, Feb. 24, in Fairfield, for the annual Fairfield Volunteer Fire and Rescue pancake feed. Those going, can go in the morning for breakfast and check out our lineup of impressive silent auction items, live auction items, and our raffles that the department has this year.

Sutton Community Home draws closer to new future for the almost 60-year old facility

Demolition work on the north side of the Clay County Courthouse square was nearly complete late last week, as buildings owned by Joe Cooney came down over the course of the past three to four weeks. The building that once stood just east of the USDA Service Center office, shown here at the left in this photo, leaving just two buildings on that side of the square in Clay Center. The easternmost building collapsed in the late afternoon hours of Saturday, Oct. 14. Broken Arrow Excavating of Pleasant Dale razed the buildings, and cleared out the debris, changing the downtown landscape in Clay Center. The collapse put the Clay County Emergency Management office, along with the Clay Center Fire Department, with assistance from other area fire departments, as well as linemen from the South Central Public Power District, as well as Black Hills Energy to help secure the area following the collapse.

Monday nights February council meeting at the Sutton City Hall presented more discussions and decisions related to the developing Schwab Ground housing development, going on in southeast Sutton, adacent to the Fox Hollow Golf Course.

When discussion first began about Harvard’s City Hall moving out of the library basement, the initial option was to build a new community room onto the new fire hall.

Its time for pesticide-sensitive crop growers to register their farm, bee sites