News
Students from Centura Public Schools and St. Paul Public Schools traveled to Hastings College last week for the college’s annual Hastings College Mural Day.…
By News Staff
Taken from the files of The Wolbach Messenger Ten Years Ago, 2016A woman who was flagging at the construction project on Highway 281 between the Wolbach…
By Sunday evening the rivers were flowing less than last week, even with the rain we had since then.The South Loup River is flowing at 183 cubic-feet-persecond…
By News Staff
Ten Years Ago, 2016Almost all of Howard County is in the abnormally dry category in the latest Drought Monitor information released on Thursday, September 29th…
Sports
By Michael Happ
St. Paul falls to Central City 3-1 in only outing of weekSt. Paul’s firepower wasn’t enough to get the Wildcats past one of the LouPlatte Conference’s top…
By Michael Happ
The St. Paul Wildcats quickly learned why Grand Island Central Catholic (GICC) is currently ranked as the top team in Class C-2 football.On Friday, in St. Paul…
The St. Paul Wildcats went 1-2 at last Friday’s LouPlatte Conference Softball Tournament, notching a 12-1 victory over Ord before falling to Centura-Central…
By Michael Happ
The Elba Bluejays have their eyes set on making waves at the Goldenrod Conference Touranment this fall, and last Thursday, they proved that they will be a…
Opinion
If you hated the “reseat” process for Nebraska volleyball season ticket holders, just wait for the cascade of complaints when reseating of football tickets…
I think that, by now, I have chased enough cows out of my yard that I have earned the right to wear my cowboy boots with pride and call myself a cowboy.Now,…
During the St. Paul City Council’s September 21,2026 meeting, the council did not stop the proposed city referendum petition certified on September 14,2026.…
It is the “silly season,” as a spokeswoman for Governor Pillen put it recently.Derogatory labels— some deserved and many exaggerated—fly at us off the…
Obituaries
Sharon Jean Boehle, 77, of St. Libory, passed away peacefully on Monday, September 14, 2026, at CHI Health—St. Francis in Grand Island.Mass of Christian Burial…
Myra Jean (Johnson) Glause, 79, of Grand Island, passed away on Monday, September 21, 2026, at CHI Health— St. Francis in Grand Island.Funeral services were…
Loueen Jean Stefanowicz, 81, of Grand Island, formerly of Farwell, died Friday, September 25, 2026, at the Good Samaritan Society in Grand Island.Funeral…
Allen Eugene Frafjord was born on December 30, 1947 to Ole and Betty Frafjord. He passed away on September 24, 2026 at the age of 78. Betty Frafjord is the…