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The Otoe County Board of Commissioners approved a moratorium on wind energy projects in Otoe County while a committee reviews the county’s current zoning regulations for such projects. Board chairman Jerad Sornson told the audience, which overflowed into the hallway of the Otoe County Courthouse, at the April 26 meeting that he and his fellow commissioners “haven’t had much positive” from their constituents on the possibility of such projects coming to Otoe County.

As most Americans returned to normal, bureaucrats at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) refused to fully reopen the agency, despite heading into tax season with a backlog of more than 20 million tax returns. While this backlog has grown, calls to the IRS have also gone unanswered, leaving families and small businesses to navigate a complicated maze of red tape resulting from Democrats’ massive stimulus package on their own. Americans deserve to have their tax filings processed in a timely manner. Instead, the IRS is mired in delays. Further, economic recovery under the Biden administration is foundering, and, rather than build on successful reforms of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Democrats are dead set on a tax and spend agenda that will only exacerbate challenges like inflation and slow wage growth.

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Before school starts at Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca Middle School, there are certain sounds associated with students convening in the gym as they await the Pledge of Allegiance and dismissal for class. On Tuesday, April 19th, the sound of students chanting “Mr. Farley” could be heard far and wide.

Jackie Thomson-Bremer jb94542@windstream.net | 402-432-1410 Celebrate the Palmyra High School Senior class at the Baccalaureate on May 4, or Graduation on May 7. If you partake in the after parties, please have a designated driver if you are drinking.

The Deer Creek Sodbusters are pleased to announce that they have booked Charlotte Endorf as guest speaker for their 40th annual Antique Machinery Show on Sunday, Aug. 14. This program is made possible by Humanities Nebraska, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and Deer Creek Sodbusters, Inc. as part of the HN Speakers Bureau.