•May 1, 2019•
Shawnee Communications of Lovington has received Pivot Group’s 2018 Outstanding Customer Experience Award for the second year in a row, recognizing excellence in customer service.
Pivot Group is an independent research provider that monitors Shawnee’s customer service efforts via follow up calls made to current customers.
To be selected for the award companies must achieve a high overall satisfaction rating from customers based on their interactions with the company. Read More

•May 1, 2019•
By Jerry L. Ginther
NP Guest Columnist

At 14 years old, his job, his personality and his car favorably impressed me. At first meeting, it was the job of telegraph operator and freight agent for the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI) that caught my interest.
Enter Bert Benjamin Condo. Bert was a tall, lean gentleman probably in his early 60s when we first met. Actually, I would later learn that this wasn’t our first meeting. I was just too young to remember the first, which had occurred when I was about three years old. From that second meeting Bert would become very important to my future. Bert became one of the best friends and mentors that a young boy could have. My long railroad career as a telegraph operator and train dispatcher was the product of this second meeting and resulting friendship. Read More

•May 1, 2019•
Award winning fiber artist, Sally Manke of Michigan, will present a trunk show Friday, May 17 and a six-hour workshop Saturday, May 18 titled “Landscape Confetti Art Quilt”.
Manke is known for styles that create a woodland scene with confetti cut fabrics “painted” on quilt batting. Layers and layers of tiny bits of batik, hand dyed, silk and solid fabrics create landscape. Read More