Thanks to the quick response of Gerald emergency personnel and workers at Gerald Nursing and Rehab, damage from an overheated electrical outlet was contained to one wall of a residential room.Minor damage was sustained to a wall in a resident’s room due to a faulty electrical outlet at Gerald Nursing and Rehab Tuesday morning.

If it sounds like a tale straight out of the American West, that’s because it is. By way of Iowa and Nebraska, two families of 19th Century immigrants to the United States, one from Germany and the other from Switzerland, end up in east central Wyoming. The result 130 years later is a ranch that covers several square miles and consists of many thousands of acres owned outright as well as many thousands more leased acres.

Recently completing their freshman seasons as Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo., Dea Dea Sieckmann and Cassondra Copeland donned the orange and purple for the Lady Vikings and head coach Jolene Christensen.