Community Spotlight

With a little planning, you can protect your budget and stay comfortable all season long by winter-proofing your wallet.

This holiday season, we’re taking a moment to celebrate you.

The Jansen Rural Volunteers wear many hats: Fighting fires, holding fundraisers to pay their operating costs, and hosting some of the most popular events in town!

When a community embraces a good idea, great things are bound to happen. Like when 21 people came together to form the Weeping Water Community Boosters.

Farmers & Merchants Bank has a long, rich history in Nebraska that began in the mid-1800s and still lives on today. Over the last 163 years, the bank has donated money to local projects, purchased new branches in amazing towns, and assisted with community cleanups. What a time it’s been!  Below, you’ll see the impact […]

Their goal is simple — to provide nutritious food, free of charge, to people in need. And this is just one of the reasons Panama Presbyterian Food Distribution was picked as a Hometown Pride winner.

Congratulations to our Hometown Pride winner: The Pleasant Dale Volunteer Fire Department!

Congratulations to our Hometown Pride winner: The Ericson Volunteer Fire Department! This organization serves the community with quality fire protection and rescue service and helps area ranchers accomplish controlled burns to improve their pastures. What makes this group truly special is that everyone involved is a volunteer. “We have a great group of volunteers interested […]

Congratulations to our Hometown Pride winner: Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging. This organization provides coordinated and comprehensive home-based services like meal deliveries for older individuals to maintain safe, healthy, and independent lifestyles as they age in place. But how did the organization start? Years ago, the Older Americans Act laid the foundation and mandated […]

Congratulations to our Hometown Pride winner: The Revitalization Association of Weeping Water (RAWW). This organization is focused on creating a thriving community through projects that honor Weeping Water’s unique history, while promoting the people and events of the city. RAWW’s board chairs four committees: design, promotion, organization, and economic revitalization. Each one plays a pivotal […]