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HUGHES IS BATTING A THOUSAND

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Former Major League reliever to be GCA Days grand marshal Former Major League Baseball (MLB) relief pitcher Travis Hughes, now a coach at Lincoln’s D-Bat baseball facility, has been named grand marshal of the 2025 GCA Days parade. The longtime Nebraska resident and former major player for the Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals will make his first trip to St.
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Remember when

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Taken from the files of The Wolbach Messenger Ten Years Ago, 2015 The Central Valley “M” team won the Loup Valley Little League Baseball Tournament in Ord on Thursday night with an eight-to-four victory over Central Valley “T” in the championship game. Team members: Cohen Grossart, Kellen Bugan, Enrique Martinez, Kyle Oakley, Aiden Freeman, Gabe Jacobsen, Jace Brown, Jackson McIntyre, Tres Gonsior, Trevor Cargill, and Kordaynian Thorin; Coaches: Jason McIntyre, Craig Oakley, and Dylan McIntyre.
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Days gone by

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In June, during the Boelus Tractor Pull parade, members of the Dannebrog and Boelus fire department and rescue squads paused to dedicate the new flagpole in the middle of the village park in downtown Boelus. The Boelus Fire Department, with the help of donations from businesses and friends of Jill Young, were able to construct a flagpole in her honor. “Jill Young was an integral part of both the fire department and the EMTs,” said a department spokesperson. “It was a hole that was hard to fill.

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Another down, up, and down again week of river flows. Looking at the river levels on Sunday morning, the South Loup River was at about a normal level when we had rain again, spiking it at almost 2,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).