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The Ord High School Music and Art Departments will be hosting the LouPlatte Conference Honor Band and Art Show on Saturday, March 19th. The Conference Band will be directed by Dr. Brian Aber of the Un...

In a four hour meeting yesterday, March 14, 2022, the Hastings City Council heard arguments for and against the establishment of the "Racino". The people in favor of the racino were not surprised when...

Nebraska has given initial approval to a bill that would place the state in permanent Daylight Savings Time if neighboring state or the federal government make the same move. The 39-4, first round vot...

Family and friends will have a Celebration Of Life with a lunch for John Quinn starting at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 19, 2022 at the Burwell Fairgrounds.

Russia launched it attack against Ukraine only a few weeks ago but already a refuge crisis is unfolding. St. Mark's Lutheran Church in St. Paul is working to provide aid to people being affected by th...

An outbreak of a virus at Fonner Park has resulted in the death of two horses and put 100 other in quarantine. The virus, EHV-1, is a strain of equine herpes that targets the horse's neurological syst...

A 27-year-old man from Winnebago has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for killing a woman and burning her body. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release that Jonathan Rooney w...

Jone M. Bosworth, 57, of Ord died suddenly on December 7, 2021. Jone was cremated and laid to rest in the family plot at the Ord City Cemetery during a small family ceremony on December 27, 2021. A Ce...

Simon D. Walkowiak, 87, of Ord passed away on Thursday, March 3, 2022; at the Community Memorial Health Center in Burwell. A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Mar...

(Ord, NE) - During the weekend of March 4-6th, professional brewers and judges from as far away as Switzerland descended upon Central Oregon to judge over 2,700 entries in the 2022 Best of Craft Beer ...