The 2022 Downtown Summer Movie Series will continue tomorrow (Saturday, July 9). The free series features family-friendly movies shown outdoors in the Sunken Parking Lot on Central Avenue Saturday nights at dusk in the summertime.
Kids and adults alike enjoyed the slime and color fun of the inaugural Color Dash presented by Ambassador Wellness Center at Steinhart Park and Steinhart Park Aquatic Center. The dash began its one-mile course at the Aquatic Center and voyaged up toward the tank in the park where dashers army crawled through slime. They were soaked with slime guns and went through the suds in spider web themed portion of the race before eventually ending up back at the Aquatic Center for photos in front of the event banner.
Noah Russell, a Manufacturing Engineering Technology student at Southeast Community College, won the bronze medal in the Technical Drafting category at the National Leadership & Skills Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, June 23.
I love the 4th of July. No – Not the bang, bang, bang or ear-piercing whistle of the really big firecrackers.
As our nation celebrates Independence Day, the grocery bill for cookouts and picnics is hitting the budgets of American families harder this year. The American Farm Bureau Federation calculated U.S. consumers are paying 17 percent more for standard Fourth of July fixings than last year.
USC and UCLA. To the Big 10? College football is changing.
The Nebraska City Elite 14s baseball team earned the USSSA 14AA Nebraska Silver State Championship in tournament action on July 1, 2 and 3 in Omaha. After pool play, the NC Elite 14s won four straight in bracket play to capture the title. During their title run, the NC 14s outscored their opponents 46-21. They finished their season with a record of 16-15-1. Players on the NC 14s this year were Callen Schnitzer, Braylon Fletcher, Dane Lyons, Tate Hawley, Trevor Flash, Landon Ferguson, Reed Hamling, Edgar Ruiz, Mason VonFeldt, Andrew Hodges, Blaine Leyden and Kaiden Klassen. Coaches were Kyle Ferguson (Head) and Dru Leyden and Alex Schnitzer (Assistants). Members of the team were honored during the American Legion Junior and Senior doubleheader on July 4. Photo by Kirt Manion
The Nebraska City Modern Real Estate Seniors swept through the Fourth of July holiday weekend with three straight wins, including two against rival teams. A 17-hit offensive resulted in 15 runs and a 15-11 win over Platteview on Thursday, June 30.
The Big Ten Conference Council of Presidents and Chancellors voted unanimously on Thursday, June 30 to admit the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) to the Big Ten Conference effective August 2, 2024. Competition will begin for all conference sports in the 2024-25 academic year.
Established in 1972, Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) are local government units involved in a variety of projects and programs to conserve and protect the state’s natural resources. Today, Nebraska’s unique system of locally-controlled, tax-funded, watershed-based conservation is widely admired throughout the nation.