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Wausa girls suffer from cold shooting
WAUSA – As the 2023-24 season winds down, the Wausa girls basketball team is searching for the best way to reignite its campaign as it has in recent years.
01/31/2024 12:00 AM
Ready, aim, shoot
Anika Lauck gets ready to shoot the basketball during halftime of the Wausa Lady Vikings’ game at Bloomfield on Jan. 23. Wausa lost to the Queen Bees by a score of 58-27. The Lady Vikings have games coming up against Winside on Jan. 31, at Osmond/Randolph on Feb. 5, at home against Hartington-Newcastle on Feb. 6 and at Neligh-Oakdale on Feb. 8.
01/31/2024 12:00 AM
Conference Instrumental Music
Conference Instrumental Music
01/31/2024 12:00 AM
Election filing deadline for incumbents is nearing
CENTER – The deadline for incumbent candidates to file for re-election to certain public offices will be here soon.
01/31/2024 12:00 AM
Wausa speech team gains experience at Hartington meet
HARTINGTON – The Wausa High School speech team talked its way into a top-five finish at its first meet of the year.
01/31/2024 12:00 AM
NRD board approves new groundwater irrigation development
NORFOLK – One of the most anticipated topics hit the Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District Board of Directors’ agenda on Jan. 25 – applications for standard variances to expand groundwater irrigated acres within the district.
01/31/2024 12:00 AM
ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER WINTER STORM
01/24/2024 06:05 AM
Debra Y. Grothe
ELGIN – Private family funeral services for Debra Y. Grothe, 64, of Elgin will be held at the Park Center Congregational United Church of Christ in rural Elgin. Pastor Kate West will be officiating. Interment will be held at the Park Center Church Cemetery in rural Elgin. Pallbearers will be Nate Gerdes, Kash Grothe, Jason Strobbe, Loren Gerdes, Gaylen Gerdes, and Donald Gerdes. Visitation was held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, at Stonacek Funeral Chapel in Norfolk. Debra passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, at her residence in rural Elgin. Stonacek Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. Debra was born on Oct. 26, 1959, in Osmond to Leonard and Lois (Hoestji) Gerdes. She attended grade school in Osmond and graduated from Osmond High School. She then attended college in Norfolk and then later Wayne State College. She graduated from Wayne State and received two master’s degrees. Debra worked as a school teacher for 35 years. She taught in Palos Verdes, CA, and also worked at Disneyland. She later moved back to Nebraska and started at a small school house in Laurel. Deb later moved on to Lynch, Niobrara, Petersburg and Randolph. She married Steven “Steve” Lee Grothe on June 28, 2014, at the Grothe homestead in rural Elgin. After she retired, Debra worked part time at the Ten West Cattle Feedlot in rural Elgin. Debra enjoyed fishing, taking care of animals, poker runs, spending time with her husband, dancing, and having friends and family get togethers. She loved her husband and all the time that she spent with him.
01/24/2024 12:00 AM
Commissioners approve changes to big game permit application periods
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission approved changes to big game permit application periods at its meeting Jan. 19 in Lincoln.
01/24/2024 12:00 AM
Back in the “Olden Days”
I was excited recently to discover, online, the really old issues of the Osmond Republican that are not available here at the newspaper office. The bound copies of the Republican go back to early 1900s, and the earliest ones don’t have all issues available.
01/24/2024 12:00 AM
Community Calendar
Every Monday – Al-Anon meets at St. Joseph’s Parish Center, Pierce, 6:30 p.m.
01/24/2024 12:00 AM
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