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UNMC medical student, Alexandra Fiedler, began her six-week training in family medicine at CCCH/clinics on Jan. 5.
Chase County Community Hospital (CCCH) and clinics welcomes another University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) student who will spend the next six weeks completing family medicine on-site trainin
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Chase County’s Olivia Spady performed her Patriot’s Pen essay during Chase County Schools’ Veterans Day program in November.
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Chase County’s Morgan Peterson reads her Voice of Democracy essay during Chase County Schools’ Veterans Day program in November.
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Patriot’s Pen winners from Wauneta-Palisade are, from left, Sawyer Vrbas, WP second place; Kenzie Bardsley, WP first place; and Sammara Alfayo, WP third place, with Palisade VFW president Carol Thompson and WP social studies teacher John Kershaw.
Every year the VFW receives Patriot’s Pen essays from more than 165,400 sixth through eighth graders.
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COVID-19 left a lasting impression on 2020. In early summer, people just wanted some interaction with others so they took to the streets for the Saturday night cruises on Broadway. Frontline healthcare workers in our hospital, clinic and senior living facilities, along with first responders, put themselves on the frontline of defense and their efforts didn’t go unappreciated. School shut down in mid-March for the year, changing the social culture for our school-aged children. Teachers missed their students and vice versa. Perhaps the saddest part of it all was how the virus isolated family, friends and relatives from their loved ones in senior care faciltiies due to the extreme risk COVID posed to older citizens.
Since early March, there have been stories every week in this newspaper on COVID-19 and its effects locally, statewide and nationally.
In 2020, Imperial and Chase County continued to make news beyond the scourge of COVID-19.
At least one city council member would not sign documents to dissolve the SW Nebraska Solid Waste Agency now after discussion during the council’s meeting Monday.
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