Early Deadlines

Due to the Fourth of July holiday. The deadline for all things paper related will be Thursday, June 29th, at the close of business.

Grace Notes

Someone has said, “Plant, and your spouse plants with you. Weed, and you weed alone.” (Author unknown) My late mother often expressed a similar sentiment. “No one ever comes and bothers you when you’re walking beans!” I’d best pause for a note of explanation.

Opioid Awareness Night for the Community June 30th

The Four County Collaborative wants residents throughout the counties of Nemaha, Richardson, Johnson and Pawnee to become better equipped to help prevent the abuse of and overdoses and deaths from opioids and fentanyl.

Courthouse Report

Speeding: Michelle L. Wehrbein, $25.00; Daria Ostrovska, $25.00; Tiffany N. Creamer, $25.00; Brandt M. Leech, $25.00; Blake M. Westcott, $75.00; Ronald E. Russell, $25.00; Wyatt A. Deters, $25.00; Robin G. Saunders, $25.00. Intimidation-phone call/electronic device: Victor M. Nunez, $150.00.

Summertime Recipes

If you have a recipe that you would like to share - send it to: ads@pawneenews.

The Nonpartisan Unicameral Legislature Is Broken

The 108th Legislature First Session was a hot mess. The fact that three senators could derail the work of 46 others in the nation’s only onehouse, allegedly nonpartisan Legislature, speaks volumes. What went wrong? Most everything that could.

Nebraska’s New Icon

“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet,” Willa Cather once wrote. The famed literary artist first came to Nebraska at the age of nine, when her family settled in Webster County. Years later, she reflected on what it was like to first step foot in our great state.

Defending the Second Amendment

State Senator In my first speech on the U.S. Senate floor, I promised Nebraskans I would reject every effort to restrict our liberties and always fight for the freedoms of the Nebraskans I serve. There are few freedoms more important than those outlined in our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Political Directory

State Senator Dan Watermeier— District 1, State Capitol, P.O. Box 94604, Lincoln, NE 68509, (402) 471-2733; dwatermeier@leg.ne.gov Governor Pete Ricketts -- P.O. Box94848, State Capitol, Lincoln, NE 68509, (402) 471-2244, Fax: (402)471-6031, http://gov.nol.