Public Records 4-18-25
Nebraska State Patrol
Kirt Manion
Harry Bischof Memorial Scholarship winners
The 2025 recipients of the Harry Bischof Memorial Scholarship received their awards from the Nebraska City Volunteer Fire Department on April 9. Pat Gude, Bischof’s grandson, presented the $1,000 scholarships to the students. Picture from left are Gude, Addyson Griepenstroh, Brayden Earll and Tarryn Godsey.
Ribbon Cutting Celebrates Glass Recycling Site
Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting on Wednesday, April 9, to celebrate the glass recycling site in Nebraska City in the city parking lot on the corner of Central Avenue and 6th Street. Keep Nebraska City Beautiful Executive Director Sally DuBois said she is excited that the year-long pilot program had full bins after being in operation only two weeks. BluePrint Financial Planning is sponsoring the program for the first year. Any color bottle, glass food containers, drinking glasses, and even broken glass can be accepted in the bins, which are emptied twice a month. Labels may be left on containers, but lids must be removed. Broken windows or windshields are not accepted.
The Lightning Thief at PSC
Peru State College theater and music students combined their talents for a production of The Lighting Thief, the Percy Jackson Musical with the show running from Thursday to Saturday, April 10-13 at the Performing Arts Center on the PSC campus.
Nebraska City Soccer 4-18-25
The Nebraska City soccer teams competed in a pair of games last week with the Pioneer boys’ team (1-5) falling 5-2 at Ralston (2-5) on April 8 and the Pioneer girls’ team (0-7) falling 2-1 at home to Aurora (2-4) on April 11.
Nebraska’s NRDs advocate for conservation funding in Washington, D.C.
Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) were represented by nearly 50 directors and staff in Washington, D.C., March 31 to April 2.
Editorial Cartoon
Markets by Joe Heller
Travels and Roots
I haven’t lived in a lot of places in my lifetime.
Peru State improves conference record in home sweep
The Peru State baseball team improved its Heart of American Conference record to 9-11 in a four-game home sweep of Graceland University on Saturday and Sunday, April 5, and April 6. PSC’s overall record moved to 15-21. Scores from Saturday…
Godsey, Marth medal at Platteview track meet
Two Pioneer weight throwers grabbed medals during action at the Platteview track and field meet on Friday, April 4.