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Several hundred people attended the final concert of the downtown Albion series last Thursday, July 25, featuring the Pioneer Band (top photo) and Grant Pickrel (right).

Nebraska Farmer announced last week that Newman Grove area native Addy Donelson was the 2024 scholarship recipient. Donelson, a sophomore at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is an agriculture and environmental sciences communication major, with minors in Engler entrepreneurship and public policy.

(Editor’s Note: Leanne Atwood of Albion was announced as the Good Samaritan Society’s National Ever Forward Leader Champion recipient in March 2024. Following is a subsequent story written by Matt Holsen of Stanford Health News.)

Boone Central graduate Bella Meyer will be presenting a program this Saturday, July 27, at the Albion Public Library from 11 a.m. to 12 noon.

A new veterinarian has joined the team at TC Vet in Albion, Elysia (“Ely”) Morris, DVM, started with her official rounds just after Memorial Day this past May.

(Editor’s Note: Information for the following story is compiled from recollections passed along by the Christo cousins at many family reunions.) Immigrants faced many challenges in coming to the United States in the early 1900s. Most were poor, and most knew only their native language.

“The Begats,” repeat performers at The Venue in Albion, will be returning to entertain in Albion this Thursday night, July 18. The Begats were started as a two-man acoustic-folk band by Collin Heiler and Matthew Teeslink, but the band has grown to a jam group of as many as eight musicians.