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Conference Instrumental Music

Conference Instrumental Music 01/31/2024 12:00 AM

Election filing deadline for incumbents is nearing

Election filing deadline for incumbents is nearing

CENTER – The deadline for incumbent candidates to file for re-election to certain public offices will be here soon. 01/31/2024 12:00 AM

Wausa speech team gains experience at Hartington meet

Wausa speech team gains experience at Hartington meet

HARTINGTON – The Wausa High School speech team talked its way into a top-five finish at its first meet of the year. 01/31/2024 12:00 AM

NRD board approves new groundwater irrigation development

NRD board approves new groundwater irrigation development

NORFOLK – One of the most anticipated topics hit the Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District Board of Directors’ agenda on Jan. 25 – applications for standard variances to expand groundwater irrigated acres within the district. 01/31/2024 12:00 AM

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER WINTER STORM

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER WINTER STORM

01/24/2024 06:05 AM

Debra Y. Grothe

Debra Y. Grothe

ELGIN – Private family funeral services for Debra Y. Grothe, 64, of Elgin will be held at the Park Center Congregational United Church of Christ in rural Elgin. Pastor Kate West will be officiating. Interment will be held at the Park Center Church Cemetery in rural Elgin. Pallbearers will be Nate Gerdes, Kash Grothe, Jason Strobbe, Loren Gerdes, Gaylen Gerdes, and Donald Gerdes. Visitation was held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, at Stonacek Funeral Chapel in Norfolk. Debra passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, at her residence in rural Elgin. Stonacek Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. Debra was born on Oct. 26, 1959, in Osmond to Leonard and Lois (Hoestji) Gerdes. She attended grade school in Osmond and graduated from Osmond High School. She then attended college in Norfolk and then later Wayne State College. She graduated from Wayne State and received two master’s degrees. Debra worked as a school teacher for 35 years. She taught in Palos Verdes, CA, and also worked at Disneyland. She later moved back to Nebraska and started at a small school house in Laurel. Deb later moved on to Lynch, Niobrara, Petersburg and Randolph. She married Steven “Steve” Lee Grothe on June 28, 2014, at the Grothe homestead in rural Elgin. After she retired, Debra worked part time at the Ten West Cattle Feedlot in rural Elgin. Debra enjoyed fishing, taking care of animals, poker runs, spending time with her husband, dancing, and having friends and family get togethers. She loved her husband and all the time that she spent with him. 01/24/2024 12:00 AM

Commissioners approve changes to big game permit application periods

Commissioners approve changes to big game permit application periods

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission approved changes to big game permit application periods at its meeting Jan. 19 in Lincoln. 01/24/2024 12:00 AM

Back in the “Olden Days”

Back in the “Olden Days”

I was excited recently to discover, online, the really old issues of the Osmond Republican that are not available here at the newspaper office. The bound copies of the Republican go back to early 1900s, and the earliest ones don’t have all issues available. 01/24/2024 12:00 AM

Community Calendar

Community Calendar

Every Monday – Al-Anon meets at St. Joseph’s Parish Center, Pierce, 6:30 p.m. 01/24/2024 12:00 AM

Randolph board votes ‘no’ on basketball co-op; Bremer adds comments

Randolph board votes ‘no’ on basketball co-op; Bremer adds comments

(By Trisha Benton, Randolph Tiems, and Regina Lorenz, Osmond Republican) RANDOLPH – The Highway 20 Hawks will be flying the coop - or the co-op nest at least – at the end of this season. 01/24/2024 12:00 AM

First filing deadline coming soon

First filing deadline coming soon

OSMOND - The first filing dead - 01/24/2024 12:00 AM