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April 2025

Jerry L. McCloud, 59

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A Celebration of Life for Jerry L. McCloud, 59 will be held on April 26th, 2025 at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Tekamah.
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Speech team picks up fourth at state

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The Cardinal Speech team traveled to Kearney last weekend, picking up a fourth-place sweepstakes finish, a State Champion and a number of individual medalists. Katelyn Curry picked up a State Championship for the Cardinals, Jordan Patzel won third in Poetry, Makenna Devine won sixth in the Entertainment category; and the OID team of Katelyn Curry, Brittany Sup, Eloise Martinez, Edwin Naranjo and Sydney Spangler took sixth overall.
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Scouts hosting food drive next week

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Albion Scouts are asking for help with their Scouting for Food drive to be held Saturday, April 5, 2025. Donations will be collected of any non-perishable food items for the Boone County Food Pantry.
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Trollope signs with Peru...

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Preston Trollope, a senior at Boone Central, recently signed his letter of intent to compete on the Peru State Men’s Bobcat Bowling team in the coming year. Trollope was a state bowling qualifier just this past season, and will be under the direction of Dwyne DaMoude and Emily Samayoa. Family pictured are Chance, Preston, Barbara and Mike Trollope.
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Landauer to be inducted into Motorsports history

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The Northeast Nebraska Motorsports Hall of Fame (NENMHOF) will officially enshrine it’s fourth Hall of Fame induction class at its Saturday, October 11th, 2025 Awards Banquet / Induction Ceremony. Among those to be inducted into this year’s Hall of Fame will be a standard in racing from the Albion community, Mike Landauer.
Mike Landauer at the HOF announcement, and granddaughter, Breklyn. Picture from Boone Co Raceway social media

Gabby Barrett to perform at 2025 Cattlemen’s Ball

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Included in Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood list, Billboard’s 21 Under 21, Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Music, Billboard’s #1 Top New Country Artist for 2020, and a member of CMT’s Next Women of Country, Country Superstar Gabby Barrett will Headline the 2025 Cattlemen’s Ball of Nebraska on Sat. June 7, 2025 in rural Gage County near Blue Springs.
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Newman Grove youth in WSC science event

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Seventy-eight students from Northeast Nebraska schools competed during the Nebraska Junior Academy of Science’s (NJAS) Northeast Regional Science Fair held March 28 at Wayne State College. Sixteen science projects received invitations to NJAS’s State Science Fair on April 24.
Maddy Wiese (foreground) and Jayden Benson of Newman Grove Junior/Senior High School make their science project presentation “Microbial Tracking in the Shell Creek” during the Northeast Regional Science Fair held March 28 at Wayne State College. Their project was one of 16 that qualified for the Nebraska Junior Academy of Science’s State Science Fair being held April 24.

City hosting well workshop for all

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The City of Newman Grove will be hosting a well decommissioning open house on Tuesday, April 8 to discuss with any interested parties about well care and removal and a wellhead protection plan. The City of Newman Grove currently has funds to be able to offer 100 percent cost-share to decommission abandoned wells located in the project area shown in the map nearby.
Wells inside the new protection district will be considered for decommissioning assistance funds.

Cardinals Medal at Wayne State Meet

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As promised in last week’s edition, the following Boone Central athletes medaled at the Wayne State College ioor meet on March 22. The team’s next competition was on Tuesday, April 1, a then the team will compete on April 8 at the Wayne Invitational at 1 p.m.
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