The St. Paul Summer Rec Program is in full swing for the summer season, offering a multitude of diverse activities—from water gun relays and Slime Time to Chess Club and beginners’ sign language courses—to area children until mid-July.

Taken from the files of The Wolbach Messenger Ten Years Ago, 2014 The Simonson brothers, Jake and John, pitched the PWG American Legion junior and senior teams to one-sided wins over Aurora on Saturday. Jake Simonson turned in a three-hit performance in the Junior division game, blanking the host team 12-0…The winners pounded out thirteen hits, and most were line drive singles into the stiff breeze…The winners sent thirty-seven hitters to the plate in the five frames…PWG scored four runs in the top of the first inning, added four more runs in the third…got their final run in the fourth inning, as Hunter Reimers was hit by a pitch, stole second, and scored on a single by Conner Wood.

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Ten Years Ago, 2014 One of St. Paul’s older homes on Howard Avenue came down on June 10, 2014. This home at 1123 Howard Avenue was once the residence of Howard County pioneers James Arch “J.A.” and Joanna Haggart. The Keating family, another prominent Howard County family, also owned it…a larger front porch was added, but some of the original features of the home could still be identified…Over the years, the home fell into disrepair and needed to be demolished. The volatile weather pattern experienced locally and across the state for the past few weeks is expected to continue…Unfortunately for northeast Nebraska, Monday’s moderate risk turned into a deadly tornado outbreak, as Stanton and Cuming Counties experienced tornados. The town of Pilger was particularly hard hit, with over half of the town destroyed when…one of two powerful tornadoes on the ground at the same time tore through the community…At least two people died in the tornadoes and sixteen were listed in critical condition.

Two months since his appointment to the position, Howard County Sheriff Mike Hoff says things in the sheriff’s department are running smoothly. “I think it’s going well,” he said.