Some new additions meet Southern Valley students on their first day of school. The first addition, a new elementary school that now joins the junior and senior high.

Several non-irrigated winter wheat varieties in Furnas County plots yielded more than 100 bushels per acre, said a University of Nebraska-Lincoln specialist.

Nebraska's second Heartland Honor Flight flew to the nation's capitol last Tuesday, making it possible for 117 World War II veterans visited the WWII Memorial along with the Korean War Memorial and other sites.