The Saline County Veterans Service Office in Wilber has hired a new director. Former armyman Scott Davis retired from the Army after 26 years in service last year. Raised in Fairbury, Davis has …

It has been a loco month for Elpido “Rico” and Vanessa Perez. The Dorchester couple opened Rico’s Mexican Restaurant in downtown Friend on May 25. The location, formerly the …

On June 21 at approximately 5:25 p.m., the Saline County Communications Center received information from the Friend Police Department of a motor vehicle and a train crash that occurred north of the …

On June 17, the Friend Historical Society received notice from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development that its application, submitted in July 2021, for the Nebraska Shovel-Ready Capital …

by Amy Hausman amy@friendsentinel.com   A special session of the Friend City Council was called for June 20, after several lifeguards at the community pool expressed concerns about …

Marcus Kastanek, Brent Kasl, Jacob Railsback and Brant Pracheil of the Dorchester Fire Department participated in a rare training opportunity Father’s Day morning at Doane University. The …

A boy from Geneva got to ride with one of the drivers in the 2022 Big Blue Mile Shootout at Cordova. Nine-year-old Oliver Lauber got to ride along with Darel Petersen in his Chevrolet Corvette as …

An intern at the Czech Embassy in Washington D.C. visited farms around Saline County to learn more about farming in the United State and the Midwest to bring back home to his family farm in the Czech …