Monday, April 28, 2025 two Badgers attended NSAA State Journalism. These girls submitted entries in March and were judged and invited back to receive their the eight medals they were awarded.

For 50 years, Father Lou Nollette has been serving the Lord’s sheep, in many towns of Nebraska to pilgrimages in Rome and Fatima. “It started in the house next door.” He motions out the window of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Nenzel. “That’s where we would have daily Mass with Father Carl Ferris. I was an alter server. I’d serve Mass and go home for breakfast then go to the grade school across the street.”

LINCOLN, NE – Governor Jim Pillen has revised a burn ban to allow fire chiefs discretion in granting burn permits to irrigation districts so that they can continue to clear vegetation from ditches. Other than that exception, burning remains off limits in central and western Nebraska until midnight on May 10.

There is a kind of hush that falls over the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge when the sun begins its slow descent and the prairie exhales. In that golden hour of May, the sky turns to honey and shadow, and the land stretches out like a lullaby. It was in this stillness that I took the photograph.

Tuesday was a great day for a track meet in Neligh, NE. C-K athletes worked very hard and saw success throughout the day.

The Alliance track meet conditions were cold, windy, and miserable. It made for a day of not great times, but Cody-Kilgore picked up some placings.