First graders at Aurora Elementary School are learning the joy of writing thanks to the efforts of their teachers. One of those teacher, Sara Luzum decided to dedicate time each week to writing calling it Free Write Friday. Students write about anything they want to and are given the opportunity to…
It was anything but golf weather at Friday’s Seward Invite.The Huskies opened the season in downright brutal conditions, including temperatures at 35 degrees with a feels-like temp of 23 and wind gusts steady above 20 miles per hour.Aurora coach Craig Badura told his players after the round they…
Aurora baseball coach Kevin Asher assured his players that the process was going to take time as the Huskies came off the field for the first time, but expressed pride in his group.The Huskies began a new venture last week on the diamond with its first-ever high school baseball game, falling on the…
I’ve never been more sure about a fadeaway jumper in my lifetime than Saturday night, with one eye open cowering behind my couch.The game, season and his career hanging in the balance, Baylor Scheierman went to a move he’s mastered, having worked on it thousands of times. A last-second rally…
The presence of the large Syngenta facility along Highway 34 west of Aurora and busloads of high school students heading to the fields each summer for detasseling are just two of many evidences of the importance of seed corn production in Hamilton County and the surrounding area. When the…
Dear Editor:Thanks to you and Ruth Peters for the tense information concerning water of Nebraska! Yes, Nebraska has in most of my life years been noted for the blessing of God, beautiful, clear, drinking water.Now side by side columns about Hampton discovery and facts Ruth has brought to light of…
Only eight weeks after the proposed Synergen Green Energy ammonia plant first came to the attention of the general public in Hamilton County, the project has hit a regulatory snag. At the end of a nearly three hour meeting of the county’s Joint Planning and Zoning Commission held last Tuesday…
More than 50 years after the destruction of the original structure and another year of waiting for it to be installed, Immanuel Lutheran Church in northeastern Hamilton County near Polk finally has a proper steeple again. And, as an added blessing, it was installed just in time for Easter Sunday!…
by Kurt JohnsonGround will be broken soon on two apartment complexes in the Streeter Subdivision, part of an on-going effort to increase and diversify the housing stock available in Aurora.Jannelle Seim, president of the Aurora Housing Development Corporation, explained how AHDC partnered with a…
More than 200 children and their families from around the area participated in the Edgerton Explorit Center’s Eggstravaganza Sunday afternoon. Despite the weather moving the majority of the event’s activities indoors, it was Edgerton’s largest turnout for the event in recent years.  
Presenting to the students of Aurora High School during the morning of March 14, public speaker Barry Adkins walked out onto the theater stage as high school principal read the introduction to Adkin’s book, “Kevin’s Last Walk: A Father’s Final Journey With His Son,” to the students.“My name is…
Only eight weeks after the proposed Synergen Green Energy ammonia plant first came to the attention of the general public in Hamilton County, the…
More than 50 years after the destruction of the original structure and another year of waiting for it to be installed, Immanuel Lutheran Church in…
by Kurt JohnsonGround will be broken soon on two apartment complexes in the Streeter Subdivision, part of an on-going effort to increase and…
First graders at Aurora Elementary School are learning the joy of writing thanks to the efforts of their teachers. One of those teacher, Sara Luzum decided to dedicate time each week to writing calling it Free Write Friday.
More than 200 children and their families from around the area participated in the Edgerton Explorit Center’s Eggstravaganza Sunday afternoon. Despite the…
Presenting to the students of Aurora High School during the morning of March 14, public speaker Barry Adkins walked out onto the theater stage as high school…
Tens of millions of dollars have been invested at the Aurora ethanol plant in the past year in what KAAPA Ethanol’s CEO reported this week is all part of a…
The presence of the large Syngenta facility along Highway 34 west of Aurora and busloads of high school students heading to the fields each summer for…
Editor’s note: In observance of National Ag Week, Sherry Vinton, director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, shares her thoughts on the power of…
It’s often said in agricultural circles that farmers are land-rich and cash-poor. And as the value of agricultural land grows, that saying becomes more and…
It was anything but golf weather at Friday’s Seward Invite.The Huskies opened the season in downright brutal conditions, including temperatures at 35 degrees…
Aurora baseball coach Kevin Asher assured his players that the process was going to take time as the Huskies came off the field for the first time, but…
I’ve never been more sure about a fadeaway jumper in my lifetime than Saturday night, with one eye open cowering behind my couch.The game, season and his…