Petersburg Press

The Petersburg Village Board will meet on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 7 p.m. at the village office.

Loup Power District officials recently delivered lease payments totaling more than $1.6 million to area communities. The payments compensate the towns for the use of those systems for the first quarter of 2024.

The Newman Grove Community will be filled with events this Friday-Sunday, May 31-June 1 for this year’s Shell Creek Valley Days celebration. Friday and Saturday will be the scheduled city-wide garage sale event.

Two local students, Seth Wright of Petersburg and Braden Benes of Albion, were recognized during the “Pillar” awards in the Engler Entrepreneurship program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The award ceremony was held Friday, May 3, in the Engler Agribusiness center on UNL East Campus.

More than 300 bike riders from throughout Nebraska and several other states will be in Petersburg in just two weeks. Area residents are invited to help welcome the riders and attend the various events and meals planned in Petersburg Wednesday and Thursday, June 5 and 6.

Last Friday evening, May 17, members of the Petersburg Community Club and volunteers cleaned the branches and debris from the big Petersburg park next to Hwy. 14 and the downtown park in preparation of BRAN’s June arrival. Members said community youngsters did an awesome job without any complaints. Following activities. refreshments were provided by the club. Helping in the top photo were Tina Stokes, Kalynn Koch, Tori Petsche, Jade Petsche, Eric Petsche and Reed. Kids volunteering in the lower photo were Braelyn Thieman, Jade Petsche, Anistyn Koch, Reed Petsche and Stetson Koch.

The TAPS ACROSS AMERICA tribute debuted on national television in 2020 when CBS news “On the Road” cor-respondent Steve Hartman teamed up with retired Air Force bugler Jari Villan-eva, founder of TAPSFORVET-RANS and TAPS ACROSSAMER-CA. The two men invited buglers and musicians to sound TAPS from their front porches all at the same time as a part of the TAPS ACROSS AMERICA tribute.

April brought rain beginning April 1st totaling about .30. On the 6th, the area had strong winds gusting up to 40 miles an hour.

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At the May Petersburg Community Club meeting, President Danielle Koch presented a First Dollar plaque to Nick Pelster, owner of P23Ag, LLC, Beck’s. Pelster is a Boone Central, Northeast Community College and Northwest Missouri State University graduate in agronomy. His office is in 123 Main building complex and he is an area salesperson for Beck’s Hybrid. In the future, he hopes to become more involved in additional agriculture ventures. He lives in Petersburg and is a member of the Petersburg Fire Department.