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St. Paul Head Start celebrates Week of the Young Child
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St. Paul Early Head Start/Sixpence and Little Paws Preschool/Head Start celebrated the Week of the Young Child from April 6th until April 12th. The Week of the Young Child is an annual, weeklong celebration started by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) to recognize early learners and their families, teachers, and communities, and to bring awareness to the early childhood programs that meet young children and their families’ needs.
| 49 County Clovers |
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The 49 County Clovers 4-H Club held their April meeting on April 7, 2024. First, they visited Barb’s Greenhouse in rural St.
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ZYSSET: Leo Robert Zysset was born on April 24th. He weighed 7 lb., 8 oz. and was twenty-one inches long. Leo is the son of Spencer and Jennifer (Rathman) Zysset of David City. He was welcomed home by brothers and sisters Lily, Carl, Clara, and Vincent. Proud grandparents are Bruce and Denise Rathman of Farwell and Waid and Marilyn Zysset of Hastings.
St. Paul FCCLA attends state conference
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It was a fantastic three days in Lincoln for the St. Paul FCCLA chapter.
Storms impact power district’s infrastructure
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A tornadic storm system travelling northeast from the area of Ravenna and Rockville brought an EF3 tornado to Howard and Greeley counties beginning a little after 1:00 last Friday afternoon. As the twister made its way from its genesis point south of Farwell and up into Greeley County, pivots, fences, grain bins, outbuildings, countless vehicles and pieces of farm equipment, and a few homes were damaged or destroyed by its up-to-145mile-per-hour winds.
Boelus News
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On Sunday morning, we still have some light rain coming down. When I checked the river flows, the South Loup River had a high reading of 1,070 cfs in the late evening of April 26th. It is down to 467 cfs now.
AREA CHURCHES
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Christ Lutheran Church LCMS 1022 Elm Street • St. Paul Rev.
Commissioners approve bid for window replacement
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Several items were tackled by the Howard County Board of Commissioners during their second regular semimonthly meeting of the month of April last Tuesday. After being appointed sheriff during a special meeting on April 16th, Mike Hoff was officially sworn into office last week.
DAYS GONE BY
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Governor Dave Heineman recently visited Centura Elementary School to present a special award to not one, but two Centura students. Faith and Hope McDonald each received first place in the Nebraska Department of Agriculture’s 2014 poster contest. They are the daughters of Brent and Amy McDonald of Rockville. Faith, a fourth grader, won first place the fourth- and third-grade division.
