3 Broncos are FCCLA National Champions

Six members of the Mullen FCCLA Chapter joined more than 7,000 Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) student members, advisers, and guests at the San Diego Convention Center, June 29-July 3 to participate in the annual National Leadership Conference (NLC).

Lots of Love Day Care celebrates 4th of July

Lots of Love Day Care celebrated the 4th on Thursday, June 30th by wearing red, white and blue. They also sang songs about America and painted stars. Pictured l-r: Keira Kearns, Libby Kraye, Danielle Peterson, Killian Kearns, Teal Peterson, Ellianna Collins. Lori Folk

North Platte radar to be down

North Platte - Beginning July 11, the KLNX WSR-88D operated by NOAA’s National Weather Service in North Platte, Nebraska, will be down for approximately two weeks for an important upgrade.

Forage minute: When to cut hay

Bromegrass is headed out and native meadows are beginning to grow rapidly with warmer temperatures the past couple weeks. Is now the time to make grass hay? Sometimes a simple date on the calendar is the reason hay is cut.

Sandhills Calendar

FRIDAY, JULY 8 1:00 American Legion Auxiliary, Village meeting room MONDAY, JULY 11 7:45 a.m.

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. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Jr. High and Sr.

Looking Back

1 YEAR AGO - 2021 Obituary: John Magnuson 5 YEARS AGO - 2017 Hooker County Community Center introduced to the public Engagement: Katie Phillips and Zach Carlton Obituary: Ronald Carr, Sr.

Mullen News

South Cherry Abbey Zimmerman, Connor, Luke and Evan of Gillette, Wyoming, visited Daryl and Doris Starr Saturday evening. Peggy Marsh attended the Hooker County Historical Society meeting at the Old Hotel Thursday evening.