Anselmo News

A skunk in Custer County tested positive for rabies last week, the second in recent weeks and the sixth this year, according veterinarian Scott Reynolds.

Nicole Sis and Brent Downey were united in marriage on July 25, 2009. The double ring ceremony took place at the Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church in Grant with Father Mark Pfeiffer as celebrant.

A number of people, including several breast cancer survivors, spent last Saturday morning walking the city square park in downtown Broken Bow to raise awareness and donations for the disease.

By ELLEN MORTENSEN Chief Assistant Editor ANSELMO - - Rural Nebraska is littered with old country cemeteries; and in those cemeteries dozens of very old graves whose markers are often barely legible any more.

A former Papillion police officer is under indictment in a case that federal investigators call a classic Ponzi scheme.

A federal grand jury has indicted a 37-year-old Nebraska man, alleging he operated a Ponzi scheme that caused investors to lose about $4 million from 2006 to 2008.

Stories we are working on for this weeks Custer County Chief include: * Family members of six members of Augustana College killed in a 1969 plane crash near Anselmo gathered for s special memorial service Saturday.