Traffic fatalities in Nebraska will be at a 15-year high! If traffic fatalities continue at the current rate, we will end the year at the highest number in 15 years. Law enforcement across Nebraska is partnering with the NDOT Highway Safety Office (HSO) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to share the message about the dangers of impaired driving.
Applications for multispecies Super Tag and Combo lottery permits will be accepted by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission beginning Jan. 2, 2023.
Peru State College is pleased to announce raising $1 million in the Project ROAR fundraising campaign. Peru State College President Dr.
Syracuse Tannenbaum was celebrated from one end of 5th Street to the other on Tuesday evening, Dec. 6.
Concerns about severe drought are at their highest level since the Nebraska Rural Poll began questioning the state’s rural residents about weather events. The 2022 poll asked a series of questions about severe weather, mirroring questions first asked in 2015 and again in 2020.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile was in Avoca on Monday, Dec. 5, from 1 to 6 p.m.
Syracuse students test consistently above state averages in English and math according to recently released results. As a district, Syracuse students were sixty percent proficient in English Language Arts while the state average was forty-seven percent.
Caleb Lefferdink of Syracuse recently graduated from Northern State University with a degree in Business Administration. Lefferdink was one of 128 students at Dec. 10 commencement exercises at the school. The commencement ceremony was hosted in the Johnson Fine Arts Center Jewett Theater. Dr. Elizabeth Haller, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and 2022 NSU Foundation Faculty Excellence Award winner, delivered the commencement address.
Granneman Agency in Syracuse hosted an open house Friday, Dec. 9, from 8:30-10:30 a.m. to celebrate LuRae Hallstrom’s 30 years in Real Estate. Hallstrom started in 1992. Her family was building a home and she decided to become a real estate agent to sell the house they were living in. Hallstom said it has been a joy and a privilege to serve Syracuse and surrounding areas for the past 30 years.
Traffic stops take methamphetamine, marijuana off roads Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol arrested two people after locating suspected methamphetamine and marijuana during recent traffic stops on I-80. On Wednesday, Dec.