The Peru State athletic department has announced the hiring of Dwyane R. Da Moude as their new head bowling coach for the upcoming fall 2022 season. Da Moude is currently at Sun Valley Lanes and Games Operator from 2011-to present.
Peru State College has announced its president’s and dean’s lists for the fall 2021 and spring 2022 semesters. Students representing Nebraska, 28 other states, Puerto Rico and five foreign countries were on the lists.
The Park Hill Cemetery cannon Burk Farley Friday, July 5, 1907. Senator Elmer Jacob Burkett of Lincoln, Nebraska, submitted an application to the War Department for a piece of condemned Civil War weaponry to be used as decoration for the Park Hill Cemetery at Syracuse.
Fusarium head blight (FHB), also called head scab, is a fungal disease that infects wheat during flowering, which typically occurs between mid-May to early June in this area. This year, early maturity varieties and earlier planted winter wheat fields started heading on May 15 and likely will be flowering by May 21. Over the past 15 years widespread FHB epidemics occurred in Nebraska in 2007, 2008, 2015, and 2019. Southeast Nebraska is particularly prone to FHB issues. In addition to yield loss as high as 50%, FHB reduces grain quality and the received price at the elevator due to damaged kernels or presence of a mycotoxin.
The Syracuse FBLA 2022 Outstanding Members are Senior Leah Levenhagen, Junior Riley Walters, Sophomore Jace Stinson, and Freshman Jayden Meyer. .
William “Bill” H. Werner, 68 of Syracuse, passed away at home on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. He was born on May 26, 1953, to Harold & Phyllis (Petersen) Werner in Syracuse. Bill attended Dist. 38 country school and graduated from Syracuse high school. After graduation he attended Milford Community College and worked for Gartner Construction. He later worked for many years on the receiving docks at Dillards.
Peru State men’s basketball head coach Bob Ludwig recently announced that the men’s basketball program will be hosting an Offensive Skills Camp Monday, August 1, through Wednesday, August 3. The camp will be for boys in the third grade through high school seniors. The camp will be from 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., each day and walk in registration will be that Monday at 8:30 a.m.
Kirt Manion, CherryRoad Media Drew Erhart, Kyla Davis and Kinsley Havranek represented the Palmyra track and field programs at the Class C NSAA State Track and Field Championships last week. Drew Erhart competed in the boys’ 100- and 200-meter races.
In the 49 years since the Roe v. Wade decision, the pro-life movement has displayed remarkable commitment and resolve. Decades of steady, grassroots efforts by pro-life advocates are yielding not just state-level legislation which recognizes the humanity of unborn children but a growing culture of life which seeks to compassionately connect with expectant mothers who lack support.
I don’t know how you feel, but in my opinion, parenting is hard! Someone must have forgotten to hand me the instruction manual when my children came home. I have yet to meet a parent who wouldn’t appreciate one.