WILDCATS SAY GOODBYE

Body The St. Paul High School Class of 2025 closed one chapter in their lives and began another on Sunday afternoon.
ST. PAUL graduates Brooke Peetz and Ava Vech embrace prior to exiting the gymnasium during Sunday’s commencement exercises at St. Paul High School. Photos by Michael Happ

Students learn of local flora, ecosystems

Body Conservation Blueprint made its way to St. Paul Public Schools last Thursday, where its members spent the afternoon teaching the district’s second grade students about local flora and prairie ecosystems.
CONSERVATION BLUEPRINT FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT PETE BERTHELSEN shows a group St. Paul second graders how insects make use of cavities in prairie plants—as well as the bamboo stakes Conservation Blueprint employees use to mark the locations of plant populations for harvest— as part of their life cycles during the organization’s visit to the St. Paul Public Schools elementary gymnasium last Thursday. Photo by Michael Rother

WOLBACH SENIOR CITIZENS MEET

Body The Wolbach Senior Citizens met on April 30th with fifteen guests in attendance. The group was glad to have Dick Peetz back and missed Jan Steenson. Members played pitch. The winners were Mel and Linda Fuller, high; Dick Berney, low; and Irene Walker, traveling.

LOCALS

Body Harriet Steenson was a Saturday afternoon guest of Marilyn Leslie at Spalding..

Remember when

Body Taken from the files of The Wolbach Messenger Ten Years Ago, 2015 Central Valley High School held their first graduation on Saturday afternoon, May 9th, at the Central Valley Auditorium in Greeley.
Remember when

Phonograph-Herald earns twenty-three awards

Body The Phonograph-Herald secured some hardware at the Nebraska Press Association’s 152nd Annual Convention. On April 26th, during the finale of the threeday event, the Phonograph- Herald won twenty-three awards in the association’s Better Newspaper Contest.
SHOWING OFF THEIR ALL-CLASS AWARDS from the Nebraska Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest are Jordan Coslor and Michael Rother. Coslor was honored with the Sports Photo of the Year in the contest; Rother was honored for the News Photo of the Year. Photo by Michael Happ

Boelus News

Body On Sunday morning, checking the river flows, the South Loup River is at 178 cubic-feet-per-second (cfs). The Middle Loup River’s flows are the same as last week, 1,400 cfs.

Days Gone By

Body Elba High School held commencement exercises for five seniors late Saturday afternoon in the school gymnasium…Jordan Werth was the class valedictorian and Ben Dush was the salutatorian. Centura High School held their graduation on Saturday.
Days Gone By

Elba News

Body Reminder: Mass will be held at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on May 17th at 6:30 p.m.
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