Cash Hemming was brilliant on the hill in the first game of a double-header on Wednesday, July 7, as Hemming threw a no-hitter to lead the Gregory Junior Teeners past Ainsworth 17-5. Gregory earned the victory despite allowing Ainsworth to score five runs in the third inning.

The Biden administration plans to issue a new rule to protect the rights of farmers who raise cows, chickens and hogs against the country’s largest meat processors as part of a plan to encourage more competition in the agriculture sector.

Media mogul and billionaire bison rancher Ted Turner is donating an 80,000-acre ranch he owns in western Nebraska to his own nonprofit agriculture ecosystem research institute and says he might do the same with four other ranches in Nebraska’s Sandhills.

Team Painter-Fenton are enjoying the view at the top of the women’s golf league having secured the number one spot on the leaderboard. Less than eight points separate them from team Bakke-VanDerWerff and Croegaert-Hogue. The Queen Be remains at the top of the individual standings for the season. Less than eight points also separate her from Denise Croegaert and Serena Bakke. The competition is tough going into the second half of the season. Twelve women shot in the 40s this week. Three of them were the top players for the week; Emma Schweigert, Lavonne Schweigert and Lauren Svatos. The course is a beautiful shade of green after the rain we have enjoyed recently. It should be another great day of golf on Thursday.

The winner of the turtle races was Jackson Rotert, center. Steve and Lisa Thieman bought the turtle in a calcutta.

There were 126 walkers and runners who competed in the Avera Fun Run on Saturday, July 3 morning. Top winners in their divisions were back row, l to r: Luke Ludwig (2 mile run boys 11-18), Abby Mock (10K women over 30), Richard Langdeaux (10K men over 30), Justin Ford (2 mile run men 19-35), Gavin Pochop (10K men under 30), and Stephanie Gregerson (2 mile run women 19-35). Front row, l to r: Katie Biggins (2 mile run women over 35), Kim Veskrna (2 mile walk 36 and over), Forrest Farley (2 mile run boys 10 & under), Avery Birkel (2 mile run girls 10 & under), Emily Diekmann (2 mile run women 11-18) and Drew Caffrey (10K women under 30). Taking first place but not pictured were Nick Wendell (2 mile run men over 35), Gracie Biggins (2 mile walk 10 & under), McKenzie Vomacka (2 mile walk 11-18), Tamara Larsen (2 mile walk 19-35).