Tell us what you\u2019re celebrating this week. Whether it\u2019s a milestone in your career, a family achievement, a community event, a birthday or something good happening in your neighborhood, we want to hear your stories.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHappy first day of first grade Billy Niobrara! Coolest kid ever. We love you. Mom and Dad\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy daughter, Elizabeth Malobicky, UWRF alumni, will be defending her thesis to earn her masters degree in Horticulture from Colorado State University on Tuesday, Sept. 8! From her very proud Dad, I’d like to wish her the best of luck! Love you, kiddo!\u201d<\/p>\n
~ Mark Malobicky, Woodbury<\/p>\n
\u201cGood morning Riley school. Today we have a fire drill at 9 a.m.\u201d<\/p>\n
~ Jameson Doyle, Morengo<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Excelsior Masonic Lodge building in downtown Excelsior this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
~ Andrew Punch, Excelsior<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tell us what you\u2019re celebrating this week. Whether it\u2019s a milestone in your career, a family achievement, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-840779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}