Feeding the linemen, helping the neighbors: Saline Center organizes emergency relief Sunday event

The Saline Center #389 will be opening tomorrow, Sunday, March 23, to provide emergency storm relief, a hot meal and electronic charging station. The center, located at 1102 County Road M (the …

Fallen tree limbs like this one could disconnect power lines, leading to outages in neighborhoods.

NPPD continues power restoration

Crews headed back out this morning and continue to work on restoration. Below are the NPPD retail customer outage numbers as of 9:30 a.m. this morning. At the peak of the storm NPPD had over 11,000 …

Milligan ALA considers changing time of delivering gift bags

The Milligan American Legion Auxiliary H.S.S.K. Unit No. 240 met Feb. 24. President Karen White called the meeting to order with 13 members present.

Board of adjustment reorganized, hears citizen concern

The Saline County Board of Adjustments voted on reorganization at their first meeting of the year on March 5. Mitch Fritz will remain as president and Gary Veprosky has been named vice president. Lyle Weber, Saline county zoning administrator, was renamed as Secretary.

Friend Elementary students fill up on 'Book Taco' project

Friend Elementary has started a new reading program called “Book Taco.”

County moves forward with audit deal, soundproofing

The Saline County Board of Commissioners discussed infrastructure improvements, financial allocations and projected growth of the county’s public defender case load at its regularly scheduled meeting March 4.

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Carter Milton of EMF taps his putt across the green during a tournament in Friend April 9.

Bobcats win triangular, second in invite

Mason Vossler lines up a free throw attempt March 13 at state.

Bobcats fall in first round

It was not the ending the EMF Bobcats wanted. Exeter-Milligan-Friend, playing at state for the first time, came in as the No. 5 seed and played No. 4 Summerland, also the Bobcats. Summerland …

Bailey and Gabby Theis, Liv Schweitzer and Lily Lehr hug one last time as Longhorn teammates after the state championship game on March 8.

Longhorns finish as state runner up

The Dorchester girls’ basketball team started the D2 state tournament by defeating fifth seeded Silver Lake 38-37 on March 6 at Pinnacle Bank Arena in the first round.

Dorchester drops championship game, takes runner up in D2

It was a hard fought battle, but the Dorchester girls’ basketball team fell short to Falls City Sacred Heart 52-25 on March 8 in the D2 championship game. It was a close first half as …

Longhorns get gutsy win over Wilcox-Hildreth, move on to championship

For the first time in school history, the Dorchester girls’ basketball team will be competing for a state championship after defeating Wilcox-Hildreth 39-31 on March 7 in the state semifinals …

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Gabby Theis lines up a three point shot in the semifinals of the D2 state tournament against Wilcox-Hildreth on March 7.

Birthdays

Doris Ourecky to celebrate 90th birthday

Doris Ourecky of Wilber will celebrate her 90th birthday this month. Her family members include daughter, Lori (Phil) Severson of Wilber. To help Doris celebrate, an open house is planned …

Shirley Siedhoff to celebrate 90th birthday

Shirley Siedhoff of Crete will celebrate her 90th birthday early next month. She was born Feb. 9, 1935, in Crete. Family members include the late Clemens Siedhoff; sons Jim and Pat Siedhoff …

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Tom and Sue Juricek to celebrate 50th anniversary

Tom and Sue Juricek of Crete will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary next month. They were married April 15, 1975, in Crete. Their family members include son and daughter-in-law, Eric …

Tom and Donna Richey to celebrate 50th anniversary

Tom and Donna Richey of Hallam will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary next week. They were married March 10, 1975, in Rockport, Missouri. Their family members include sons, TJ, Nick, …

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