Newman Grove

Following a series of special meetings, interviews and executive sessions, the Newman Grove Board of Education offered the school’s top job last Thursday, and received an acceptance from Tyler Beranek, former principal at Lindsay Academy.

A Hunter Safety Class was held three times this past week in Newman Grove for a total of 8 hours class time. Twenty-five kids attended the class. Students came Newman Grove and the surrounding towns. The classes were held at the Newman Grove Bowl. Instructors were Alvin Meyer, Ryan Chilson and Tim Krueger.

This week, elementary classes at Newman Grove Public Schools celebrated 100 days of school. The Kindergarten celebrated by building math centers where we built a tower with 100 cups, made a gumball machine with 100 dots, finished a 100 chart puzzle, made a picture with 100 pattern blocks and created art using the number 100..

The Newman Grove/St. Edward Panther boys basketball team had two games since last report against Elba, coming off a win to take on Grand Island Lutheran and Burwell.

The junior high Panthers basketball team started the second full week of January with another home game against the Palmer Tigers. The Panthers picked up a good head of steam in the first quarter, 120, over Palmer, and led 15-6 heading into the halftime break.

Newman Grove Public Schools hosted a special guest speaker before the Christmas break, Travis Pieper, the “All Right” Guy talked to the student body and staff about resilience, attitude and character, among other topics.

The Newman Grove/St. Edward Lady Panthers kicked off their 202526 basketball season with back-toback games on Dec 4, and Dec.