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Linked to the land Children of Lester Keiser accept Dawson County Pioneer Farm Family Award. Land and history have always connected Melody (Keiser) Gustafson to this part of the country. She’s lived in Colorado Springs the past 25 years but once in awhile returns to Gothenburg where she visits family graves—always where her father Lester Keiser is buried—and drives by the home place northeast of town.  
Tiffany Hicken hangs out shingle Opens local chiropractic business. Tiffany (Haynes) Hicken has returned to Gothenburg and set up shop. Hicken, a 1989 local high school graduate, has opened Hicken Chiropractic at 712 Eighth St. “We always knew eventually we’d come back because Chris wanted to work at the lumber yard,” Hicken said. “We wanted to raise our kids in a small town.”  
Personal tribute One life, one flag, one mile. It’s not about the 4,500 miles Mike Ehredt will travel on foot in the scorching sun. Or the eight pairs of shoes he’s already thrown away. Or the 20 gallons of chocolate milk he has consumed to replenish his body. It’s not even about the American flags he plants at each mile marker along his journey across the country.  
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Local News

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Owners don’t think dog dangerous

Davis family questions designation after pit bull bites neighbor. The owners of a dog deemed dangerous don’t think she is. For the second time in a row, Joseph and Krista Davis approached the Gothenburg...

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Council says basement sewage not city’s fault but wants to assist Tiffany Tiedemann thanked Gothenburg City Council members when she left a recent meeting. That’s because council members, at their...

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Area News Digest

Taken from the news columns of area newspapers. Macs Creek earns honors at wine contest COZAD—While competing in the fourth annual Mid-American Wine Competition held in Ankey, IA, on the campus of...

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Linked to the land

Children of Lester Keiser accept Dawson County Pioneer Farm Family Award. Land and history have always connected Melody (Keiser) Gustafson to this part of the country. She’s lived in Colorado Springs...

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Opinions

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Fighting back one step at a time

Step by step, bag after bag the lump in my throat grew heavier. I did not recognize all of the names on the luminaria lining the track at the Lincoln County Relay for Life last weekend. It didn’t matter....

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All who wander are not lost

The final piece of vital equipment fit perfectly between the seat and the console as we pulled out of the driveway. That book of colored lines and dots is what would guide us to Niagara Falls and back. We...

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The time is here for ‘aroha’

We spread the ashes of a friend the other day. Water lapped gently against the side of the boat as we remembered and prayed her into the next world. No iPods, cell phones, television or other distractions. We...

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Sports

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State baseball bid ends early

Seniors eliminated at Area 6 tourney. After such a promising start to the baseball season, the Senior Melons had their sights set on making a trip to Schuyler next week. Three straight wins to start...

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Season ends with big losses

Juniors pounded by Broken Bow, Holdrege in Area 6 tournament. LEXINGTON—Two days, two opponents, two games. Unfortunately for the Melon Juniors, one outcome. Gothenburg got hammered by Broken Bow...

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Seniors to open Area 6 with Cozad

Tournament hosted by Holdrege. With a 10-8 record to finish the regular season, the Gothenburg Senior Melons open the American Legion Area 6 tournament as the No. 4 seed. The Melons face No. 5 Cozad...

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Burkholder, O’Hare establish new marks. LEXINGTON—Two individual Gothenburg swimmers and two relay teams won gold medals as best in the league during the Plains tSunami championship meet in Lexington...

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Brady Happenings

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Brady Days offers variety of activities next weekend. There were no pirates on the Platte back in the days when the community of Brady was known as Brady Island. That won’t keep the village from pulling...

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Bike blessing

PRAYER FOR SAFE TRAVELS: Motorcyclists gathered at the Brady Community Church Sunday for the sixth annual Blessing of the Bikes ceremony. Chaplain Gary Smith of North Platte led the service and blessing...

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Koenig asks for easier way to get to her door. It was almost a year ago when Lucille (Whipple) Koenig asked the Brady village board to do something about the water running down Norris Court and Harrison...

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Agribusiness

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Hot, humid weather has many corn diseases on the rise across the state. Nebraska corn growers need to keep watch for corn disease development, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension plant pathologist...

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In its third year, the program that enables Nebraska landowners to receive hay harvesting permits is in effect. These permits are for the harvesting of hay from the right-of-way of state maintained highways. ...

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The 10th annual Nebraska Grazing Conference will be at the Kearney Holiday Inn Aug. 10-11. In addition to speakers from Nebraska including faculty from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of...

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