🌱 Broken Bow's backyard flock rules aren't final yet

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In today's newsletter:

• Broken Bow's backyard flock rules aren't final yet
• Custer County weighs rising employee health insurance costs

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Increasingly windy, with a high of 66 and low of 31 degrees.
• Thursday: Partly sunny and cooler, temps: high: 49, low: 27.
• Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 51 and low of 27 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Broken Bow City Council Welcomes New Paramedic, Discusses Ambulance Purchase and Livestock Ordinance (ruralradio.com) — Broken Bow's proposed livestock rules are headed for another council reading, with revisions allowing up to 12 chickens or quail and requiring registration for new backyard flocks. The council declined to fast-track approval Tuesday, leaving residents time to follow changes that also establish grandfather protections for properties with existing animals.
   

• Custer County Supervisors hear from Benefits Management, start to township road reclassification request (sandhillsexpress.com) — Custer County faces a substantial increase in employee health insurance renewal rates after claims outpaced premiums during the plan's first year. Supervisors made no decision Tuesday, awaiting a competing proposal through NACO while their benefits adviser recommended staying with Medica and preserving the current coverage.
   

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📸 Around Broken Bow

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Broken Bow

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★ Featured events ★

Tuesday November 24

• County Board Meeting →
  Custer County Courthouse, 431 S 10th Avenue, Broken Bow
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Thursday November 12

• Boys Wrestling: Horizon Invite (Junior High)
  Horizon Middle School
  4:00 pm
• Girls Golf Awards Night
  Broken Bow Public Schools Broken Bow, NE 68822
  6:00 pm

Saturday November 14

• Play Production: North Platte Play Festival (One Act)
  North Platte High School NPHS Performing Arts Center
  8:00 am

Tuesday November 17

• 6-8 Choir & 7-8 Band Concert
  Broken Bow Middle\/High School Performing Arts Center Broken Bow Middle/High School Performing Arts Center
  7:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday November 11

• Book Deliveries / Entregas de Libros →
  Arcadia NE
  9:30 am

Thursday November 12

• Driver's Examiner →
  Taylor NE
  9:30 am
• JH Wrestling Burwell/ Loup City Invite @ Burwell
  Burwell Jr-Sr High School, 190 I St, Burwell
  4:00 pm

Friday November 13

• Planetarium / Planetario →
  Arcadia NE
  10:00 am
• Rialto Theatre Movie →
  Rialto Theatre, 112 South Walnut Street, Arnold
  7:00 pm

Monday November 16

• Crochet/Knit Club - Club de Tejer →
  Arcadia NE
  5:15 pm

Wednesday November 18

• Foodie Friends / Amantes de la Comida →
  Arcadia NE
  11:30 am

Have we missed something on our calendar? Add an event yourself! As always, before attending confirm event details to ensure accuracy.

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🗞 Nearby News

Burwell

• This Nebraska Ranch Sells Farm-Direct Beef From Its Quiet Corner Of The Sandhills (newsbreak.com)

Cozad

• What's open and closed in Lincoln on Veterans Day 2026 (lexch.com)
• Plum Creek Community Players open auditions for February show (lexch.com)
• Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst to play Lincoln show in March (lexch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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