More than sixty bands from high schools across Nebraska took to the streets at the Fonner Park Fairgrounds in late August as part of the Nebraska State Fair’s annual Marching Band Exhibition. Last Thursday, August 29th, on the second to last day of the seven-day exhibition, twenty-six Centurions marched along the 2024 marching route—altered this year due to ongoing construction of the Grand Island Casino Resort—performing a new selection chosen for the new school year.

Cars packed Wolbach’s main street over Labor Day weekend, with village residents and people from across the area having stopped in to the old bar on Friday night and Saturday afternoon. For those two days, a Sons of the American Legion (SAL) Squadron 236 fundraiser had temporarily brought a drinking establishment— sort of—back to Center Avenue.

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