Nebraska City High School musicians were featured in a Christmas concert on Sunday, Dec. 5. Included were the Varsity Singers, the NCHS band, the Harmonia singers, the Expressions, the NCHS jazz band, the City Singers, a group of guitarists, and a percussion ensemble. NCHS Varsity Singers. PHOTOS BY KIRT MANION
After 100 years, Frances Kompus is still trying to catch up with her big sisters. Kompus celebrated her 100th birthday on Nov.
Dancing into Christmas. PHOTO BY KIRT MANION Dancers of all ages got into the Christmas Spirit on Saturday at the Bethel Church at the Nebraska City Dance Studio Show Dancing into Christmas.
HERAT, Afghanistan – Over the course of an hour on a recent night, the bus waiting in the Herat station filled with passengers. Mostly young men, they had no luggage, just the clothes on their backs, maybe a bag with some bread and water for the long road ahead of them.
In the Dec. 7 Nebraska City News-Press story on the CHI Health St. Mary’s COVID-19 presentation to the Nebraska City Rotary Club, we misidentified CHI Health Pharmacist Molly Thramer as Molly Albus.
What does community mean to you? How do you define ‘community’? Better yet, how do you create one? This is one of the undelying messages of the series of Community Conversations that the Morton-James Public Library has sponsored monthly since September. The conversations bring together a random group of Nebraska Citians for an hour or so to talk about whatever is on their minds.
Pictured is the current home for Nebraska City youth soccer at Red Fox Run. Plans are progressing for a new home for youth soccer and other youth sports at the Nebraska City Sports Complex. Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce Inc., has announced that the new Nebraska City Sports Complex will be the Wednesday, Dec. 8, Hot Topics discussion. Join NCTC and local and area business owners, managers, and residents as we hear from Patrick Wehling and Doug Friedli as they tell us about the plans for the new Nebraska City Sports Complex. They will have drawings to present and a presentation on the fund-raising efforts to be kicked off this month. Hot Topics is a public forum held from 8 to 9 a.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. And is held at Scooter's Coffee, 2104 S. 11th St. Please call the NCTC office (402-873-6654) for more information or go to the website at: www.nebraskacity.com/calendar PHOTO BY JULIE DAVIS
Second-year head football coach Casey Creehan had a successful season at the helm of the Peru State football program. Peru State won its most games since the 2017 season, when the Bobcats went 7-4.
SHENANDOAH - Ralph E. Shaffer, age 79 of Shenandoah, IA passed away on Monday evening; November 22, 2021 at the Good Samaritan Care Center in Villisca, IA.
The recipients of this year’s Christmas Wishes Pay It Forward project have been selected. Margaret Spiers, organizer of the project and founder of the Children’s Watering Towar Garden, decided to brighten the holidays for current or former cancer patients this year.