The Howard County Sheriff’s Office and St. Paul Police Department are working together with the Grand Island Police Department on a rash of stolen vehicles and property. Sheriff Harold Schenck said at least five vehicles have been recently stolen in Grand Island and two in St. Paul. Both of St. Paul’s vehicles were recovered in Grand Island, and one of Grand Island’s stolen vehicles was recovered by Howard County in Dannebrog. He said one of the stolen vehicles from St. Paul contained stolen property from three different individuals. Sheriff Schenck stated that two different individuals have been arrested and the investigation is ongoing.

MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BANDS from across the state joined the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) on Saturday for the sixty-fifth annual UNK Band Day Parade. The downtown Kearney event featured a total of twenty-nine bands, including the Centura High School Marching Band.

Owner/Operator Jewell Howell has big plans for The Den, the new family restaurant that opened early this month at 605 Howard Avenue in St. Paul.

In what has become a tradition in St. Paul, members of the St. Paul Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad, the St. Paul Police Department, and the public took to the grandstands and the track at St. Paul Public Schools (SPPS) as part of the community’s third annual Memorial Stair Climb, which took place on both September 11th and September 14th this year.