Elba News
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308.968.3348 Reminder: There will not be a Mass at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Elba in April because of Holy Week.
Cotesfield News
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308.968.3348 Reminder: There will not be a Mass at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Elba in April because of Holy Week.
Centurions earn hardware at state speech championships
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The Centura speech team returned from the Nebraska School Activities Association (NCAA) Class C-1 State Speech Championships with four medals and an overall team sweeps placing of eighth. The Duet Acting team of Lauren Suntych and Ella Simon took home a silver from the state contest, coming in behind the Louisville team of Dayton Carlson and Easton Fiala and ahead of Kolten Settje and Emma Sohler of Laurel- Concord- Coleridge.
Lower Loup designates water quantity management sub-area
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On March 1st, Lower Loup Natural Resources District (NRD) Water Management Area 19— which is composed of the Lower Loup NRD area south of the main stem of the Loup River in southern and eastern Howard County, in the Palmer area of northwestern Merrick County, and in part of Nance County— was designated as a Water Quantity Management Sub-Area.
ST. PAUL HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
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AUDREY ANDERSON played the role of Olive Ostrovsky, the spelling bee’s runner-up, in last week’s production at St. Paul High School..
CHAMBER SHOWS ITS LOVE
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Awards banquet focuses on love of all things local It was a night aimed at showcasing a community’s love of everything St. Paul.
Bed Head selected for statewide program
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Bed Head Coffee Company will be featured on the Nebraska Passport Program later this spring. An annual program of the Nebraska Tourism Commission aimed at “help[ing] travelers discover Nebraska’s hidden gems,” the Nebraska Passport released a list of its of seventy 2025 passport stops-including museums, parks, restaurants, retail stores, coffee shops, and more-earlier this year.
MOTHER NATURE
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Photo by Michael Happ.
SRT budget questioned by Howard County board
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Several items made up a busy regular meeting of the Howard County Board of Commissioners last week. Among many other items, the board heard an update on the Howard County Communications Center’s potential takeover of Nance County dispatch services, an update on the new county roads building at the county fairgrounds, approved Father Alex Borzych as a new member of the Howard County Medical Center Board, and discussed the management of the Central Nebraska Special Response Team’s budget, changes to county employees’ union representation, and the county’s designation as a “hub zone” for “new market opportunities for business growth” by the Nebraska office of the United States Small Business Administration (SBA).
Fraud investigation results in arrest
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A woman accused of committing fraud in several area counties was arrested by officers with the St. Paul Police Department (SPPD) in early March following an occurance at Jacobs Ford in St. Paul earlier this year.