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McCook Co. for Life to hold bake sale

McCook Co. for Life will hold its annual Bake Sale on Friday, March 22 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in Salem at the American Legion Hall on Main Street.Everyone is welcome to come and have coffee and rolls with us and look over our variety of baked items. New members...

Montrose preschool and kindergarten screenings planned

The Montrose School District, in cooperation with the Cornbelt Educational Cooperative and Head Start, is pleased to announce a preschool screening at the Montrose Elementary School scheduled for Thursday, March 28, 2024 for all children ages 3 to 5 years old.If you...

Where to find free groceries

Little House Living Merissa Alink Food is an expensive part of any budget. In our home, we utilize many ways to save money on groceries like buying in bulk, buying from a food coop, and more. Just because we have to eat doesn’t mean we need to pay a lot of money to do...

Insights from your McCook Central School Board

Board Bulletin The 2024 - 2025 School Year calendar has been approved and can be found on the School District’s website: mccookcentral.k12.sd.us. Due to more snow days than accounted for in the original school calendar, McCook Central has added two school days for...

Where are you going for heaven’s sake

You, Me & Jesus Sue Schmidt | Correspondent Near the end of his life, John was a prisoner on the island of Patmos for approximately a year and a half because he refused to stop preaching the Gospel. The island was an isolated rocky and inhospitable prison fifty...

This or that

Carla Snyders | NCP Writer There are days in life when I literally have to ask myself, what am I going to do today, this or that?I know not everyone has that option. Many people have their days mapped out for them. Their schedule is set in stone and everything that...

Salem Community Library information

Please note that the Salem Community Library will be closed Saturday, March 30 for the Easter holiday weekend. They will be open again April 6.

St. Mary’s to host fish bake

St. Mary’s Church in Salem will be hosting a fish bake on Friday, March 15 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the Hall located one block west of Highway 81 on Vermont Ave. in Salem.Also, a gluten-free meal will be offered from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.A freewill offering will be...

$18.825 million for Lewis & Clark in FY24 Approps Bill

The FY24 Energy & Water Appropriations Bill that received final congressional approval by the Senate on March 8 includes $18.825 million for the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. This total includes the $6.825 million proposed by the Administration in its...