2024 Aksarben Community Grant open

Omaha - The Aksarben Foundation is now accepting applications for their 2024 Community Grant awards. This legacy initiative of the Aksarben Foundation and has touched all 93 counties of the state since its inception.

Sandhills Calendar

THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 7:00 Hooker County Historical Society, Old Hotel TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 8:30-12, 12:45-4:30 Drivers examiner at Hooker County Courthouse MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 6:00 American Legion Marcy Upton Post, #109, Red’s Cafe TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 7:00 Mullen Volunteer Firemen business meeting,...

Church Calendar

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH 10:00 a.m. Confessions, 10:30 a.m. Mass. ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH Adult and Children Sunday School classes - 10:00 a.m., Morning Worship 11:00 a.m., 2nd Sunday - 12:00 Fellowship Dinner - open to the community. MULLEN METHODIST CHURCH 11:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship.

Looking Back

1 YEAR AGO - 2023 28 babies featured in Baby Issue Mullen receives 12-18” more of snow, putting us in the 48-60” range for season total snow as of Jan.

Correction

When submitting information for last week’s Vacationer Issue, Della Haesler, like so many of us, fell victim to autocorrect. For clarification, she did not work as a lumberjack - she worked with one of the first multiple-service lumberyards with a drive-thru lumberyard in North Pole, Alaska!

New ownership at Mullen’s Dismal River Club

Mullen – Dismal River Club in Mullen, Nebraska, has announced DRC Investors, LLC as the new owner of the premier private club, marking an exciting new chapter in the club’s storied history.

Consider joining the Extension Master Gardener Program

Have you ever heard about the Extension Master Gardener program, but did not know what the program was about, or how to participate? Here is information that introduces the public to the program and helps recruit gardening enthusiasts to join the program in Nebraska!

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by Julie Pfeiffer, Librarian New books that have recently arrived at the Hooker County Library: The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich The Watchmaker’s Hand by Jeffery Deaver Broken Trust by Robert Parker The Corsican Shadow by Clive Cussler A Very Inconvenient Scandal by...

SJNSB conference to be Jan. 20

“History of the Sandhills Soddy” is the theme chosen for the Sandhills Journey National Scenic Byway conference to be held Saturday, Jan. 20 at the One Box Convention Center, 2750 South 27th. Ave. in Broken Bow, Nebraska.