Shannon Reicheneker has been hired at the new Child Care Director at the YMCA’s Early Learning Center in Holdrege. She has a passion for working with kids and is excited to help strengthen local communities and families in her new position.

After retiring from his long-time position as a county judge in 2015, Bob Ide wanted to enjoy his new freedom playing football with his young grandchildren and hunting and fishing. “I’d like to go to Alaska and fish halibut or salmon,” he said. “I like to go out and shoot a bull...

As Marty Smith approaches her 68th birthday this summer, she’s not looking for a rocking chair. Instead, she’s planning to roll in the mud and crawl through culverts in the Dawson County “Cowpoke” Mud Run and continue her morning group exercise classes with the twenty and...