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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Boone County, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 92 stories have been published about Boone County which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Boone County, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 92 stories have been published about Boone County which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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Petersburg · PetersburgEast Wilkes, Forbush and Starmount boy’s basketball teams all hit the road for holiday tournaments last week and had varying results in their respective games. The Falcons dropped a pair of the games in the High Country Holiday Classic at Watauga High School. Forbush (1-12) dropped a 73-24 decision to the host Pioneers in its opener last Wednesday in game where it shot just 20-percent from the... Source
Boy’s hoops roundup: Cardinals split holiday tournament games
Petersburg · PetersburgEthan LarsenEthan Larsen will be the new Boone Central High School Principal for 2023-24.
Boone Central School Board approved the contract with Larson Monday night to fill the position that will be vacated this summer when Jeff Schwartz moves from high school principal to superintendent of schools.
Larsen joined the district last summer and is serving this year as the director of continuous improvement and professional learning. He was recommend…
Ethan Larsen hired as next year's Boone Central High School principal
Petersburg · PetersburgU.S. Drought Monitor map issued January 5 shows Boone County in extreme drought.Little wonder why Boone County and most of Central Nebraska waivered between severe and extreme drought through most of 2022.
It was exremely dry across the area. In fact, many people can’t remember a drier year, and drought is reflected in Albion’s precipitation total.
Albion received only 16.75 inches of precipitation during 2022. That was 10.85 inches or 39 perce…
2022 was driest of past 8 years
Petersburg · PetersburgBoone Central’s annual Choral Clinic provided some memorable performances for the audience Monday evening, Jan. 9.
Above, the mass choir with more than 240 voices filled the Performance Gym with sound. Guest conductor was Greg Wooden of Omaha Westside High School, who directed the mass choir with accompaniment by Jill Nore on piano and Whitney Paulson on violin.
Several individual school groups also performed during the program, including the Bo…
Boone Central Choral Clinic provides memorable performances
Petersburg · PetersburgVerona Mae Vogel, Miss New Year 2023Verona Mae Vogel, born Thursday morning, Jan. 5, is the 2023 New Year’s Baby at Boone County Health Center.
She is the daughter of Martin and Kendra Vogel of rural Albion, and she’s their fourth child.
Verona weighed in at six pounds, 11 ounces and was born at 9:22 a.m. Her three siblings are Raymond, age four; Macke, three, and Tim, 17 months.
Kendra is an RN at Boone County Health Center. She and Verona went…
Miss New Year 2023 arrives
Petersburg · PetersburgThe Boone Central Lady Cardinals bumped their 2022-23 season record to 3-7 with a split of weekend games.
Boone scored its third victory of the campaign Friday with a 52-23 decision over visiting O’Neill. The Cardinals broke open a one-point contest with a 14-2 run in the second quarter and outscored O’Neill (2-7) 30-14 in the second half. Defensive disruption, along with scoring by Elle Webster (5 points) and Kailey Patzel (4), sparked the run …
Lady Cards down Eagles, lose late lead to Devils
Petersburg · PetersburgThe Norm Manstedt Invitational is always one of the largest and toughest regular season wrestling competitions in the state.
Again featuring teams in Classes A through D, the 2023 edition of the Manstedt Invite challenged all competitors – a challenge Boone Central wrestlers readily accepted.
The Cardinals placed eighth in a 21-team field, led by 220-pound champion Hank Hudson. Hudson obliterated his weight class with six consecutive pins, all i…
Boone wrestlers battle in rugged Manstedt event
Albion · AlbionThe Boone Central Cardinals’ court fortunes completely flipped this past weekend.
After a dominant sweep to the Alliance Holiday Tournament championship ran the Cards’ win streak to five games, Boone Central came out on the short end of two tough decisions Jan. 6-7.
Boone Central hosted O’Neill (5-3) Friday, with the Eagles pulling away to a 63-56 victory in the final quarter of play. It was a case of not enough shots falling, and too much Lando…