May 2024

“The Wizard of Oz” is coming to Albion with the Missoula Children’s Theatre for two performances in June. Auditions will be held Monday, June 17, from 12 noon to 2 p.m.

Boone Central’s National Honor Society, FBLA, FFA, and FCCLA chapters encourage members to give back to the community throughout the school year. Seventeen students and advisers Cassie Olson, Joel Sup and Abby Hitchler from Boone Central met with Rose Hill Cemetery Board members Gay and Bob Sandman and Wilma Rankin on the morning of Saturday, May 4, at the cemetery to assist in another round of cleaning veteran gravestones.

Weather conditions were nearly ideal when runners and walkers left the starting line for the Cinco de Mayo run sponsored by the Boone County Health Center Foundation last Sunday afternoon, May 5. There were about 30 total participants in the run and walk.

Economic development is critical to any community. However, for rural areas it can be the difference between boarded up storefronts and new housing developments.

Drawing a close on the last 17 years of ownership, Jim and Julie Dickerson passed the keys of the Albion News/Boone County Tribune and Petersburg Press to new owners at the end of last week – Brook D. and April Curtiss of Plainview.

Boone Central Schools provided the following updated and corrected list of students receiving the Multi-Activity Student Awards for 202324: Seniors - Taylor Beierman, Brant Benes, Parker Borer, Nathan Devine, Ava Duerksen, Joshua Erickson, Jackson Lipker, Emma Lordemann, Jose Luna, Cassidy Maricle, Isabella Meyer, Myranda Nelson, Benjamin Reilly, Natalie Schrad and Elizabeth Webster.