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The Boone Nance County Genealogy Society met on March 10 at the St. Edward Public Library with 15 members and guests attending.

A March Blizzard traveled through eastern Nebraska, including Cornhusker Public Power District’s service area, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, causing approximately 3,600 meters to be without power, many for three days. The storm started early morning on Wednesday, March 19, with rain switching over to ice, then heavy wet snow fell along with winds gusting up to 70 mph.

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.

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.

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.

The Albion FFA alumni hosted the 30th-annual “Gateway to the Sandhills” bullride and event this weekend at the Boone CountyAg and Education Center Niewohner Arena at the fairgrounds. This year’s event stock was provided by Double S Bull Company crew.

The Boone Central 2025 musical was “Curtains” - a “whodunit” from a unique perspective of a theatre troupe that is under lock and key after mysterious murders in their midst following a performance.

The Boone Central Cardinal speech team outdistanced the field at the 2025 Class C1-4 District speech meet in Albion last week, qualifying 15 teammates and 13 events for the state tournament this weekend. The roster for the Cardinals included six District champions, six second place finishes and one third to qualify those teammates.

The threat of a strong winter storm closed businesses and schools throughout Nebraska last week, and while the snow didn’t accumulate as much as feared (or perhaps hoped), high winds tore down power lines and especially trees in Albion and around the area, and the storm hit particularly hard to the southeast. Many readers called in downed trees and Cornhusker Power is still battling power outages, as well as southwest toward York.