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Filling Albion’s downtown is now more colorful after planters were filled last week on behalf of the Albion Chamber of Commerce by, l.-r., Shelley Lueken, Lori Krohn, Michelle Devine, Cheryl Andreasen, Emma Nelson and Tiffnay Curry.

Boone County Assessor’s office has released the county assessment sales/ratio statistics for the coming assessment year. Residential property will be assessed at a median of 95%; commercial property will be valued at 100% of median and agricultural land will be assessed at 69% of its value.

Albion/Boone Central Alumni will be returning for their annual banquet this Saturday, June 15, and many special events are planned in town that day. The schedule opens in the morning with a breakfast featuring the Waffle Man starting at 8 a.m.

Albion’s interfaith Vacation bible School is underway this week, June 10-14, at Zion Lutheran Church and St. Michael’s School.

A special meeting of the Boone County History Museum was held on Thursday, June 6 at the museum, with a vote to start progress on a new building addition. The concrete cost will be about 165 yards at $131 per yard based on a successful bid from B & S Concrete of Petersburg, and the accepted building bid was $92,060 ($58,500 materials and $33,560 labor) from Beckman Lumber of Elgin.

Petersburg was a busy community last week, hosting an overnight stay for the Bike Ride Across Nebraska at the Highway 14 Park on Wednesday, followed by the annual car show and Petersburg Fire Department Cruise Night on Saturday, June 8. Both of these events brought many people into town.

Boone County Commissioners gathered on Monday, June 10 to review plans for budget season, including hearing of expected wage increases to keep some county staff in the future. The increase of minimum wage to $15 per hour, plus some competiive local wages, have driven a few county agencies to consider wage increases as a big part of their next budgets this season.

At an early morning meeting Monday, the Boone Central School Board acted on several items in preparation for the upcoming school year. The biggest purchase approved was a new boiler for the high school building at $53,973 from Merit Mechanical of Tilden.

Albion Education Foundation has awarded college scholarships to three of Boone Central High School’s 2024 graduates. These are merit-based scholarships, awarded to the three topranked students in the Boone Central class of 2024 based on specified coursework.

The Boone County Commissioners gathered on Monday, June 10 to review plans for budget season, including hearing of expected wage increases to keep some County staff in the future. The increase of minimum wage to $15 per hour, plus some competitive local wages have driven a few county agencies to consider wage increases as a big part of their next budgets this season.