Here is the breakfast and lunch menu for the Palmyra School District for the week of Jan. 24. Due to vendor shortages or item unavailability, the menu may change with little notice. Thank you for your understanding toward the kitchen staff.
Congratulations to the athletic teams that have worked so hard to bring home awards! Everyone has done everything to make District OR-1 proud. Keep up the great sportsmanship, and bring home some more medals.
Farm operators and agronomists from across the state will obtain valuable crop production-related information from on-farm research projects conducted on Nebraska farms by Nebraska farmers in partnership with University of Nebraska faculty. These research projects cover products, practices, and new technologies that impact farm productivity and profitability.
The Nebraska Public Service Commission recently approved an Order (C-5272) awarding 60 grants totaling nearly $18 million from the Nebraska Broadband Bridge Program (NBBP). The vote to approve the Order (C-5272) was 4-1 with Commissioner Crystal Rhoades dissenting.
Lawmakers gave first-round approval Jan. 11 to a bill that would cut Nebraska’s inheritance tax rates while increasing the amount of property value that is exempt from the tax.
Two Syracuse graduates are participating in Division I Track and Field at the University of South Dakota this season, Meredith Clark and Lauren Meyer. With the indoor season underway, both competed at the Hawkeye Invitational in Iowa City, Iowa on Friday and Saturday.
The Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca wrestlers picked up Thursday dual wins at home against Fairbury, 63-16, with wins by Colton Sprague, Carter Wander, Caleb Caudill, Jace Goebel, Noah McKenzie, Barret Brandt, Cy Petersen, Tieran Cox, Barrett Bischoff, Owen Wander, and against Norris, 42-30, with wins for the Rockets by Colton Sprague, Jace Goebel, Barret Brandt, Cy Petersen, Jackson Nordhues, Treyton Jones and Chance Buchanan. Barret Brandt picked up his 100th win.
It’s Martin Luther King’s birthday. He had a dream, you know.
Nebraska Public Service Commissioners recently elected leadership positions for 2022. District 1 Commissioner Dan Watermeier will remain chair for a second year.
With 1.4 billion consumers, China is a place with abundant potential. China also is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party, a longtime belligerent which enslaves its own people, steals intellectual and tangible property, and flouts fundamental values like national sovereignty, free enterprise, democracy, and the rule of law around the world. While Congress has taken several small steps to restrain China this year, including passing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which bans products made with slave labor in China’s Xinjiang region, the Biden Administration is failing to more directly confront China’s aggression.