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Today's News

  • County Prepares For The Unknown

    Driving around Pacific Junction Friday, watching the sandbaggers and railroad contractors preparing for the predicted flood waters, I was reminded of the eerie feeling I had back in the summer of 1979 while completing some National Guard training at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss.

       I didn’t have a television in my dorm room on the base, probably not even a radio, and certainly not a computer or cell phone. I was two weeks away from completing a hot summer of training and anxious to return home to Nebraska.

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  • Teen Missionaries Converge On Glenwood

    There's a good reason why it seems like there's more teenagers than usual out and about this week in Glenwood.

        Sunday afternoon, 265 teenagers, representing six states (Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana), arrived in Glenwood to begin a week of home repair and restoration work for dozens of elderly, disabled and financially-restricted residents of the Glenwood community. The teens are performing the work as participants in the faith-based TeenServe mission program.

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  • Opinion-Tribune Staffers Recognized

    Two staff members from The Opinion-Tribune newspaper have been recognized with journalism awards from the Omaha Press Club and Landmark Community Newspapers for work published during the 2010 calendar year.

        Editor Joe Foreman and associate editor Joel Stevens were named winners of four awards earlier this month in the Omaha Press Club’s annual “Excellence In Journalism Competition.” They received three first-place awards and one second place award from the OPC.

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  • Fleeing The Flood Waters

    PACIFIC JUNCTION - With fears that rising water from the Missouri River could flood the city of Pacific Junction, many residents of this western Mills County community have started making evacuation plans for themselves and their families.

    Some residents have already packed up their belongings and put them in storage and some have secured temporary living arrangements with relatives and friends in other communities.

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  • Protecting Pacific Junction

    PACIFIC JUNCTION – Pacific Junction residents aren’t about to let their town go under water without a fight.

    With the waters of the Missouri River rising on a daily basis and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warning that under a worst-case scenario, Pacific Junction could be inundated with 8 to 10 feet of water, the town’s residents have spent the past week preparing for a flood of potentially historic significance.

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  • Switzer’s home run lifts Knights to win

        Austin Switzer smacked his first home run of the season and drove in two runs for the Fremont-Mills baseball team in a 10-3 win over Sidney on Thursday.
        Austin Hansen had two hits and two RBIs and Clayton Wilson had two hits and three RBIs.

        Derrian Bredberg recorded the win on the mound allowing two hits and three earned runs over three innings.

    Fremont-Mills 16,
    Stanton 1

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  • Wolverines notch win over Essex/South Page

        Luke Schafer came up a home run short of hitting for the cycle and starting pitcher Jagger Bohrer struck out six for the East Mills baseball team in a 11-2 win over Essex/South Page on Thursday.
        The Wolverines pounded out 11 hits in the win, led by Schafer’s 3-for-4 day. Colby Jennings,     Charlie Ruff and Dalton Morgan added two hits apiece.
        Bohrer threw all five innings, struck out six, allowed six hits and one earned run to notch the win.

    East Mills 20,

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  • Lorimor fans 14 in Knights win

        Mindy Lorimor fanned 14 and allowed just two hits for the Fremont-Mills softball team in a 3-0 win over Sidney  on Thursday.
        The Knights (8-4) were led at the plate by Kendal Fichter’s two hits.

    Fremont-Mills 11,
    Stanton 1
        The Fremont-Mills softball team recorded 14 hits in a 11-1 victory over Stanton last Tuesday.
        Mindy Lorimor had three hits and Kendall Fichter, Emily Smith, Sydney Esary and Taryn Williams each had two hits.

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  • Ram softball wins St. Albert tourney title

        The Glenwood softball team bounced back from a pair of losses to outscore the competition 24-0 in winning the Council Bluffs St. Albert Invitational Tournament on Saturday.

        The Rams knocked off the host Saintes 17-0 in a four inning opening round win and came back to defeat West Central Valley 7-0 in the title game.
        In game one, St. Albert pitcher Lauren Archer walked 22 and hit six more Glenwood batters. The Rams scored 17 runs but remarkably had just one hit on the day, a single by Maddie VanScoy.

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  • Bertini, Stivers strong in pair of Glenwood baseball victories

        Freshman Corey Bertini earned his first varsity win on the mound in a 19-7 Glenwood win over Clarinda last Tuesday.

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