Prairie Doc® Perspectives: Influenza rare this season

Do you know anyone who had influenza this past year? Chances are you do not. Sure, plenty of people had the “stomach flu” with vomiting and diarrhea, otherwise known as gastroenteritis. Some people had colds and others had COVID-19. But cases of influenza this season have been exceptionally low.

Notes from your Central Sandhills Area Extension Office

Thedford - Here are a few updates from your Nebraska Extension office serving Blaine, Grant, Hooker and Thomas counties. 2021-2022 Nebraska Ranch Practicum Dates Set. Applications are now being accepted until May 1 for the Nebraska Ranch Practicum.

Mullen Book Club to meet March 17 at library

The Mullen Book Club will meet next on Wednesday, March 17, at 6:00 p.m. in the Hooker County Library basement. They will be discussing “Ordinary Grace” by William Kent Krueger. Copies of the book are available at the Hooker County Library. “That was it. That was all of it.

Highway project will wipe out unofficial access point to Dismal River

Editor’s note: This is story is being reprinted with permission from the Feb. 14, 2021, Omaha World-Herald. Lincoln - The Dismal River, a popular Sandhills stream for canoers and kayakers, may finally be living up to its name.

New program for land seekers, retirees

Lincoln - A new Nebraska Extension program will work to connect new and beginning farmers and ranchers with retiring landowners who are interested in transitioning their land to a new owner.

Sandhills Calendar

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 7:00 Hooker County Historical Society, Old Hotel MONDAY, MARCH 1 1:00-5:00 Sandhills Task Force’s Sandhills Stewards open house, 110 NE 1st St, Mullen - east of the post office TUESDAY, MARCH 2 8:30-12 12:45-4:30 Drivers Examiner, Hooker County Courthouse 7:00 Mullen...

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 State Wrestling results: Teven Marshall - 1st, Clayton Hassett - 1st, Eli Paxton - 2nd, Ty Kvanvig - 4th, Tristin Grooms - 4th.