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MHS 2021 Homecoming royalty crowned

MHS 2021 Homecoming royalty crowned

MHS 2021 Homecoming royalty crowned

Mullen High School Homecoming royalty pictured l-r: 2nd Attendants Callie Coble and Cade Groseth, King and Queen Samuel Coble and Jordyn McDowell, 1st Attendants Jaden Emerson and Taylor Svoboda. Gerri Peterson
Photos don’t do the North Highway 97 flags justice! Drive by and see them yourself. Gerri Peterson

Photos don’t do the North Highway 97 flags justice! Drive by and see them yourself. Gerri Peterson

A patriotic welcome

Three years ago Mullen’s Jim and Cheryl Sheets bought a bunch of small American flags and put them in the ground around their corner lot next to North Highway 97 for Memorial Day. They had a lot of positive feedback and decided to put them out for other holidays as well.

Joy Club starts Sept. 8

Joy Club is just around the corner! The opening date is Wednesday, Sept. 8 at the Assembly of God Church basement in Mullen. Time from right after school until 5:00 p.m. Ages 3 years through 6th grade. Songs, Bible lessons and many activities. We are excited and ready to go.

Timing the last cutting of alfalfa

Has the decision been made for when the last cutting of alfalfa will happen? September is here and so are the dry conditions in much of Nebraska. When alfalfa is cut for the last time in the fall, it affects winter survival as well as the spring regrowth.
Rachel Cruze

Rachel Cruze

Start budgeting for Christmas now

Making a list, checking it twice . . . Oh wait, it’s not the holiday season quite yet? You may still be enjoying time at the pool, but if you haven’t started yet, now is the best time to start budgeting for Christmas.

Sandhills Calendar

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 7:00 Mullen Volunteer Firemen business meeting, Firehall WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 6:30 Lions Club, Hooker County Library basement 7:00 Mullen Rural Fire Protection District Board, Firehall FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 1:00 American Legion Auxiliary, 305 N Blaine - Mullen MONDAY,...

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 - 2020 Births: Evelyn Kay to Simon and Melissa Fenton, Walker Dean to Will and Ariel Neumeyer Obituary: Stephen Schenck 5 YEARS AGO - 2016 Obituary: Patricia McNitt 10 YEARS AGO - 2011 Father Joseph Kadaprayil is new priest at St.

Mullen News

Tom Hoatson of Hyannis came and helped his mother Charlotte Hoatson with some yard work Saturday. Charlotte went out to Bev Uphoff’s Sunday. Jim and Bonnita Paxton of Dallas, Wisconsin, and Dan and Deb Daly were visitors at Betty Brown’s late Sunday afternoon.