Several local students are included on the fall 2011 dean's list at Peru State College.
From Nebraska City are Audrey Briley, Erin Schwartz, Gretchen Jorgensen, Jacquelyn Moyer, Julie Marshall, Kailey Mangum, Leslie Miller, Madison Farris, Mattie Cahoy, Mayra Saldana, Nicholas Krenk, Patricia Morgan, Steven Francois and Tawnie Smith.
The Nebraska City Community Foundation announced Jim Thurman as philanthropist of the year during the community street dance Saturday night.
Thurman, owner of Thurman's Bike & Sport, recently volunteered his business experience at the Nebraska City Middle School co-teaching a business class.
With his leadership the students developed their own business plan, took out a bank loan and launched “Hal-Mart.”
Thurman has been involved in Optimist Club, Nebraska City Chamber of Commerce and Nebraska City Economic Development Corporation.
The Nebraska City School board introduced new middle school principal Craig Taylor on Monday.
Taylor, the son of two educators from Lexington, earned his teaching degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1999 and earned his master's degree in administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
His first teaching assignment was for fourth graders in Liberty, Mo.
He later taught science and social studies at the Elkhorn Ridge Middle School in Elkhorn. He was also activities director at Elkhorn.
With the first day of school for most Nebraska City students only a week away the school is reporting there are still hundreds of students without proper immunization paperwork.
School Nurse Samantha Collins said 800 of the school's 1,400 students had incomplete paperwork for chicken pox vaccines last March and only 50 have updated their records since then.
“Students are not supposed to be admitted to school without the immunizations. To be in compliance, they need to take care of this as quickly as possible,” Collins said.
In Donna Whitesel’s youth she twice performed in the Russian ballet Sleeping Beauty and ended her vocation as a dance teacher and owner of DanceWorks this summer with the classic fairy tale.
“It was a bittersweet experience to come round circle,” the former Cechetti ballerina said at a reception Thursday.
“I loved to watch my girls dance what I did from back in the day when I could get on my toes,” she said.
Proceeds from the Youth and Adults in Action lemonade stand at Janie's Confections, 616 Central Ave., will go to the school backpack program at St. Mary's Community Hospital.
The lemonade stand is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6.
YAA has won a lemonade stand contest sponsored the past two years by Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce.
A new UNL Extension website at flood.unl.edu gathers news and information to help Nebraskans deal with the 2011 flood. The UNL Extension Flood Resources site includes materials from UNL experts, other land-grant universities, and government entities to help Nebraskans deal with flooding.
Nebraska City Public School's former transportation director asked the school board Monday to reverse his firing that came after a first grader was accidentally dropped off at a bus stop 10 miles from his home last August.
Dale Roettger told the school board that he had only his memory to rely on when bus driver Tom Mead called from Union saying six-year-old boy Seth Foreman was still on the bus and did not know where he lived.
Roettger said the school did not provide him or the bus driver with a current list of passengers and correct stops, but he remembered that a boy from the previous year occasionally took the bus to his grandfather's house in Union.
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Nebraska City bands from seventh to 12th grade are scheduled to unite at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17, for bandfest at the high school.
Each of the separate bands will be featured and the concert will conclude with a mass band finale.
Director Greg Olsen said the public will not want to miss the "Salute to Spike Jones."
The Fine Arts Boosters are offering pie after the concert.
The Nebraska City school board approved new student handbooks Monday leaving open a discussion regarding energy drinks.
Middle School Principal Jenny Powell said there are an increasing number of students who bring energy drinks to the breakfast period before school starts.
“They bring these giant energy drinks in the morning and have them at lunch,” she said.
A group of travellers from Peru, the country, bring some culture to Peru, the town.
Nebraska City High School will present its spring play, The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet, this weekend at the school auditorium.
Show times are at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 6, and at 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 7.
Saturday's matinee will be free for children ages 12 and under. It will feature a book reading by Thing I and Thing 2, the Cat in the Hat and Cindy Lou Who.
Creighton University awarded diplomas Monday to 13 new paramedics that culminates a two-year transformation of the Nebraska City Rescue Service.
The Creighton class is the first to take its primary coursework off campus and puts six more paramedics on the roster of the Nebraska City EMS Division.
Dean Cole, EMS program administrator for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, said the paramedics give Nebraska City the opportunity to build on its role as a leader in rural rescue service.
A packed house joined Secretary of State John Gale in celebrating Nebraska's 144th birthday at the Nebraska City High School on Thursday.
With fourth graders from Weeping Water, Conestoga, Plattsmouth, Humboldt-Table Rock-Steinaur, Nebraska City Lourdes and Hayward filling the gym, Gale surmised it might have been the biggest crowd in a decade to celebrate statehood at the Nebraska City gym.
The annual birthday party is expected to include over 3,000 fourth graders at Columbus, Norfolk, Seward, Central City, Omaha, Fremont and Nebraska City.
The Nebraska City School Board agreed Monday to terminate Wacky Wednesdays at the end of this school year.
For grades kindergarten through fifth, Wacky Wednesdays meant student dismissal at 1:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month.
It was instituted about 10 years ago to give elementary teachers more planning time and Tom Farrell of the board said it served its purpose to that extent.
The Nebraska City Middle School is among grant recipients for before and after-school programs through the federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers.
Middle School Principal Jenny Powell and Partners for Otoe County wrote the grant application in January to include homework and guided work assistance to the after-school programs at the school.
The Arbor City committee selected priority projects at its meeting Tuesday that would establish a community art project, beautify entrances, broaden industrial sites and place emphasis on recreational trails.
Committee members Doug Farrar and Tom Farrell said the collaborative art project is expected to involve Nebraska City schools and KHN Center for the Arts, as well as city government and business leaders.
High school art classes would create small scale models of proposed sculptures and outdoor art displays. The models would be sold at auction, with buyers deciding where the actual-size sculpture will be placed, whether it's a park entrance, business district or neighborhood.
