Lewiston school notes

From Lewiston Consolidated Schools Principal Juli Smith: We will be starting school as we ended last year.

New Lewiston teachers

New First Grade Teacher, Danielle Pfister. I am Danielle Pfister. I grew up in a small town in Nebraska called Elk Creek. I currently live on a farm near Johnson with Danny and our four children, Calvin, Oakley, Axel, Briggs, and our dog, Stella.

Mattie Fehringer

New staff member, Mattie Fehringer. Mattie will be teaching fourth grade and also be coaching volleyball and assisting girls basketball this year. “I’m Mattie Fehringer and I grew up in Genoa, Nebraska. I was raised by my parents Scott and Gina.

Shelby Crowe

Shelby Crowe. Shelby recently moved to the Beatrice area with her family from Montana. She will be teaching our PreK3 students. “My name is Shelby Crowe. I LOVE teaching and have wanted to teach since is was 13.

Farm Family Award to Blechas

As a child, Frank J. Blecha moved to the Turkey Creek area of Pawnee County with his parents and sister from Czechoslovakia in 1873. In 1897, 80 acres of land located three miles west and two miles north of Pawnee City were established in Frank's name. In 1944, Frank J.

4-H kids have busy week of competition

This past week, 4-H competitors, friends, family, and numerous community members gathered at the fairgrounds, making the 2021 Pawnee County Fair one for the books. Static exhibits kicked off the fair, checking in on Sunday evening and being judged Monday morning.

Individual Sovereignty and Local Accountability

I and my colleagues in the other Sheriff’s Offices throughout the state cannot help but feel that there is a push to dissolve small local Sheriff’s Offices and combine them into larger regional agencies.

Pawnee County Fair Photos

Fair Queen Lauren Moser. Chelsea May Stephens gets candy from Angie Morehead. Color Guard of from left, Larry Bradbury, Mary Landry, Larry Borcher, Jim Schultheiss, Gary Leatherman. Lynn Curtis. Todd Hunzeker. The rodeo started off with bull riding excitement.

Jim Koch built Gyhra’s Outlaw engine

Jim Koch of Dawson was at the Outlaw Pullers show at the County Fair to watch Underrated II perform. He built that engine of that puller and was at Jerry’s Dream Museum that afternoon before the Friday show. There were several tractors there from the 50 years of pulling.

Search Is on for America’s Top 100 ‘Hometown Heroes’

The second annual Small Town America Civic Volunteer Award (STACVA) program was launched today nationwide in towns and counties with populations of less than 25,000.