Notes from the CSA Extension Office

Thedford – Here are a few updates from your Nebraska Extension office serving Blaine, Thomas, Hooker and Grant counties.

Local accounting firm to merge

Clients and communities that Gardner, Loutzenhiser and Ryan, P.C. serve will start seeing a new business name early next year. GLR has entered into an agreement to merge with Casey Peterson, LTD effective Jan. 1, 2023.

Mullen News

Brrr!!! Winter Storm Diaz came in fierce and in full force last week; leaving most of us cooped up for a few extra days, some even without electricity. Hopefully we all have been able to scoop out - the sun in currently shining again!

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Mick and Midge Harding were blessed this last week to celebrate an early Christmas gathering in Dalton, Nebraska, with Lloyd and Dani Harding and family.

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Bob and Peggy Marsh enjoyed a weekend visit from Chad and Jill Marsh of rural Minden. They had lunch at Marsh’s Sunday afternoon. Monday morning, Mullen Elementary students were able to host their Christmas program at the Lariat. Peggy enjoyed the concert watching her grandkids and all the kids.

Correction

As stated in the United Women in Faith write up in the Dec. 8, 2022, edition, Lois Folk’s great-grandfather was born in Prussia, not Russia, in 1851. In the 1800s Prussia was a country at the northern boundary of Germany. After the Prussian-Austrian War, Prussia became a union of greater Germany.

Sandhills Calendar

MONDAY, DECEMBER 26 7:00 EMT training meeting, Ambulance garage TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27 7:00 Hooker County Area Republican Party, Village of Mullen meeting room MONDAY, JANUARY 2 6:00 American Legion Marcy Upton Post, #109, Red’s Cafe TUESDAY, JANUARY 3 8:30-12 12:45-4:30 Drivers Examiner, Hooker...

No dreaming needed for a white Christmas this year!

by Gerri Peterson From the National Weather Service: “A powerful storm system crossed the Rocky Mountains early during the week of Dec. 11, 2022, then nearly stalled over the Great Plains.

Local businesses fail alcohol compliance checks

Investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol recently conducted alcohol compliance checks in Buffalo, Kearney, Logan, Thomas, Hooker and Grant counties. During the evening hours of Saturday, Dec. 3, investigators conducted alcohol compliance checks at businesses in Buffalo and Kearney counties.

Carson has new job title at NRCS

After 27 years as a Rangeland Management Specialist, I decided I needed a shorter title and a change in my career. I began working for NRCS (SCS then) in 1988 as a Soil Conservation Aid (Summer Intern) in Mullen and in Imperial in 1989.