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Notes From a Domestic Goddess

Notes From a Domestic Goddess

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Notes From a Domestic Goddess

Rosanna Connelly
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
“On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…!” And here we are finishing up the Christmas season, although there are ultratraditionalists who would aver that Christmas doesn’t actually end until Candlemas on February 2.
Village maintenance worker John Ticnor and Kim Vrtiska, president of the Table Rock Historical Society, make sure that all of the hardware for attaching the marker to its poles was included in the shipment.

Village maintenance worker John Ticnor and Kim Vrtiska, president of the Table Rock Historical Society, make sure that all of the hardware for attaching the marker to its poles was included in the shipment.

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Table Rock Historical Marker Arrives

Sharla Sitzman
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
The long-awaited historical marker for Table Rock arrived this month. It had been ordered and paid for by the Table Rock Historical Society over a year ago.The process of getting a marker has been a long journey. Even being granted the right to have a marker had not been a sure thing.

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TABLE ROCK

News Staff
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
With plats filed by the Table Rock Town Company and a postmaster appointed in 1856, the town of Table Rock came into existence. The population boomed the following year with the migration of families from New York and Pennsylvania, sent by the Nebraska Settlement Company.

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Pawnee Republican Year in Review

News Staff
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Here are The Pawnee Republican’s lead stories’ headlines from this year as well as the page count for each issue:January 2 “Lewiston Students Chosen for Sing Around Nebraska” by Reagan Connelly Page count: 8 January 9“As 2024 Ends, the Courthouse’s HVAC Problems Continue On” by Reagan Connelly Page...

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From Our Files

Betty Davis
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
10 Years Ago – December 31, 2015Continuing the work of the cleanup of the fire damaged buildings was again on the minds of the Pawnee City City Council at Monday’s meeting.

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Famous Birthdays

News Staff
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
JANUARY 4Lola Young, Singer (25) JANUARY 5Carrie Ann Inaba, Dancer (58) JANUARY 6Rowan Atkinson, Actor (71) JANUARY 7Jeremy Renner, Actor (55) JANUARY 8Cynthia Erivo, Actress (39) JANUARY 9Catherine Princess of Wales (44) JANUARY 10Mason Mount, Athlete (27)

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372 Doane University students make fall Dean’s List

News Staff
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
CRETE, Neb. (December 22, 2025) - A total of 372 Doane University students made the university’s Fall 2025 Dean’s List. To make the Dean’s List, undergraduate students enrolled on the university’s Crete campus must earn a grade point average of 3.
First frame of a 1915 Mutt & Jeff comic strip by Bud Fisher. Jeff is falling off a roof, and Mutt yells, “For the Love of Mike, grab hold of something, Jeff!”

First frame of a 1915 Mutt & Jeff comic strip by Bud Fisher. Jeff is falling off a roof, and Mutt yells, “For the Love of Mike, grab hold of something, Jeff!”

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“For The Love of Mike!”

It’s The Story
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
This is just a little story about a production on the stage of the Table Rock Opera House in 1916. It was “For the Love of Mike!” That phrase was pretty new at the time. It had been popularized by the “Mutt & Jeff” comic strip. It was, and is, roughly the equivalent of “Oh, for Pete’s sake!
Lewiston School Spirit Crochet-Along

Lewiston School Spirit Crochet-Along

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Lewiston School Spirit Crochet-Along

Reagan Connelly
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Welcome to section 10 of our Lewiston School Spirit Crochet-Along! Let’s grab our hooks and begin!Row 1-3: Double crochet in each stitch across. Ch 2. Turn. (203) Row 4: Double crochet in the first 57 stitches. Change to white. Double crochet in the next 4 stitches. Change to maroon.
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