April 2024

An alleged misuse of funds was announced April 16 by the Boone County Cops & Bobbers organization on social media. The organization’s board of directors published a letter on its Facebook page, stating that Cops & Bobbers was made aware on April 7 of “a possible situation involving misuse of our organization’s funds.” After an internal investigation and confirmation of the allegations, immediate measures were taken to ensure all missing funds were reimbursed by April 10, and that reimbursement was made.

Bike Ride Across Nebraska (BRAN) will be making a stop in Petersburg on Wednesday, June 5. A steering committee of members from the Petersburg Community Foundation, Petersburg Community Club, Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department, American Legion Post 162 and the St.

Albion Education Foundation board members and advisors met in March 2024 to discuss and award grant requests at Boone Central Schools and Albion St. Michael’s School for the 2024-25 school year.

Elementary students at Boone Central were excited Tuesday morning, April 23. That’s the day the books came.

Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family and St. Edward participated in a large, tough Palmer Invitational at Fullerton April 18.

Thursday, April 25: Boone Central Boys Golf at Lakeview Invitational (Quail Run GC-Columbus), 9 a.m. Saturday, April 27: Boone Central Girls & Boys Track/Field Mid-State Conference (Albion), 10 a.m.

Riverside charged into O’Neill April 17 and rode home with the St. Mary’s Invitational boys championship hardware and a bevy of individual medals from both boys and girls competition.

The Boone Central track/field teams traveled to Grand Island for the Northwest Dave Gee Invite on Thursday, April 18th. The meet featured fifteen schools, which made things very competitive and points in short supply. It was the Boone girls team that turned in the better performance this week, finishing in fourth place while the boys finished sixth - only 5 1/2 points from fifth.

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Rebekah Ketelsen, a junior at St. Edward High School, has been selected to attend American Legion Auxiliary Comhusker Girls State June 2-8, 2024, at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.