EVENTS January 12 - Public Hearing for Proposed Drug Testing Policy at NCHS, NCHS Auditorium, 7 p.m. January 13 - High School Girls & Boys Basketball at Lingle; High School Wrestling, Newcastle Invitational. January 14 - High School Girls & Boys Basketball at Saratoga; Middle School Basketball at Burns vs. Pine Bluffs. January 13 & 14 - High School Speech at Newcastle. January 14 - Lusk Elks host Denver Broncos playoff game on the big screen, 5 p.m., Lusk Elks Lodge. January 15 - Niobrara County Library Foundation Wine Tasting, Niobrara Country Club, 2-5 p.m. Tickets are on sale for $30 each. January 15 - Lusk Elks Lodge Club 50 Dinner open to the public. 6 p.m., $8 per plate. January 16 - Freshman/Sophmore Basketball Tourney, Girls at Lusk, Boys at Guernsey. January 16 thru 21- Winterfest, NCHS. January 17 - Middle School Basketball, Guernsey at Lusk. January 19 - Middle School Basketball at Douglas. January 20 - High School Girls & Boys Basketball, Moorcroft at Lusk, Winterfest; High School Wrestling at Moorcroft. January 23 - No School for Niobrara County Schools. January 24 - Middle School Basketball, Southeast at Lusk; High School Boys Basketball JV, Glendo at Lusk. January 26 - Middle School Basketball, Harrison at Lusk; High School Wrestling, Glenrock at Lusk. January 27 & 28 - High School Wrestling, Belle Fourche Tourney; High School Speech at Gillette. January 27 - High School Girls & Boys Basketball, Southeast at Lusk. January 28 - High School Girls & Boys Basketball at Burns.

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Niobrara Birthdays presented by Allbright's True Value January 12 - Mary Predmore, Dick Price, Sally Bryant; January 13 - Sandy Serres, Kevin & Kraig Christianson, Suzanne Price, Kallie J. Vuller, Stan Brewster, Cathy Dearinger; January 14 - Davi Scott, Shana Fitzwater, Niki Daniels, Neil Graves, Keith Lemons; January 15 - Shirley Hladky, Sandy Arnett, Matthew Penfield; January 16 - Don Larson, Barb Frye, Chance Weiser; January 17 - Robert Brown, John Thayer, David VanGundy; January 18 - Ed Boner, Jonathan Pischel, Greg Bryant, Devin Haas; January 19 - Jack Garner; January 20 - Fred Walker, Pat Russell, Wanda Foote; January 21 - Carrie Miller, Allison Luchsinger, JoAnn Wade; January 22 - Heather Hawley, Tabatha Jenkins; January 23 - Carol Swartz; January 24 - Kyle Thompson; January 25 - Joyce Parmely; January 26 - Mary Roetman; January 27 - Pat Miller; January 29 - Gayle Johnson, Sean Dreesen; January 30 - Franklin Manke; January 30 - Dennis Gulley.

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Lusk Recycling Center Information Hours: Monday - 8am to noon; Wednesday - 8am to noon Friday - 8am to noon; Saturday - 10:00am to 2:00pm The following items are accepted at the recycling center - plastic bottles, paper, glass, newspapers, computer paper must be separate, shredded paper, cardboard boxes, office paper, magazines, catalogues, aluminum cans, steel cans (tin). The recycling center is located next to the EMT barn off of West Daley Street.

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Back by popular demand! Gold in the Black Hills! Three miles on up the road from Horse Creek Station, Isaac bard, on May 4, 1876, opened a road ranch on Little Bear, Bard, who had been working for John (Portugee) Phillips at Chugwater, realized that the migration of Black Hillers was going to be large, so filed on one hundred and sixty acres of land as a soldier’s homestead. In his diary of April 5, 1876, Bard made the following notation: "I will now try keeping a public ranch for a year if the Good Lord is willing and the Indians will let me alone". With the help of his wife, Rose, Bard developed the little homestead into one of the best ranches in the area. Although in the earliest days it was not a scheduled stage stop, stages usually paused there. After the Horse Creek post office was moved to the Bard ranch in May 1877, the place became regular stage station called Little Bear. Bard was the postmaster. In the old ledger which he kept, appear the names of many employees of the Cheyenne and Black Hills stage company and of various well-known pioneers. On July 18, 1877, Bard noted: "Clear but windy the noted Indian Chief Spotted Taile called on his way to the Agency. I drank a glass of beare with him he is a fin large well built man has been on a visit to the whites in Cheyenne." About thirty-eight miles north from Cheyenne, along the Black Hills trail, lay a narrow valley, watered by splendid natural springs that gushed up through the sandy bed of Bear Springs creek. There in 1875, Joseph (Jose) Armijo opened the Bear Springs road ranch, which he advertised as a "first class ranch, plenty of stable room, hay and grain. The bar supplied with the best of liquors, meals at all hours." Later he sold the ranch to his brother, Miguel Armijo, who evidently was lax in meeting payments. On February 13, 1877, Jose rode to the ranch to discuss money matters. After a long drinking bout, the brothers quarreled and Miguel shot Jose to death..... continued next edition.

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