This year’s A’ROR’N Days parade featured patriotic floats. Representing Memorial Community Health on its float are from left: Kaiya Crabtree, Haidyn Scribner, Angelique Moore, Sam Sorensen and Colin Sorensen. See more A’ROR’N Days photos at auroranewsregister.com
Plainsman 50th Anniversary Celebration committee members are excited to mark the museum’s history since it first opened on July 4, 1976.
This section of Highway 34 by the Aurora swimming pool will be the focus of a study to consider the concept and cost of building an undercrossing in conjunction with an NDOT highway improvement project planned for approximately 2030.
Saturday’s A’ROR’N Days parade included a total of 76 entries (an appropriate number given the America 250 theme of this year’s celebration), making it one of the biggest in recent history. As always, antique tractors were a big part of the event as seen in this birds-eye view of the downtown square.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
As Aurora kicked off the local celebration of America’s 250th birthday, the community had plenty of reasons to celebrate its own hometown tradition as well.
Emma Bullerman admits that there was a period where she thought she wanted to get out of Nebraska. Through her work at Prairie Plains, she’s come to fall back in love with her home state and is committed to following in her father’s footsteps to keep its ecosystems healthy.
Brian Brhel’s cattle graze on cover crops turning a row crop field into a temporary pasture meadow. (Photo by Brian Brhel)
The flowing waterway in this corn field north of Aurora on Thursday morning shows evidence of the 1.5 inches of rain that fell overnight as reported at the airport. That was in addition to the estimated 2 inches of precipitation received earlier in the week. Researchers say it’s not how much rain that fell on an acre of farm ground that counts as much as how much of it was retained by the soil. Studies show that healthy soil practices can increase corn yields by up to 25 bushels per acre.
The Aurora fireworks display makes a triumphal return Thursday in celebration of America's 250th birthday
A 30-40 minute fireworks display will conclude the July 3rd Celebration in Phillips
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ukas Fry (right) and Dylan Ronnau share a laugh coming off the field during a game earlier this season. Fry has pitched 18 innings this season for the Pinnacle Bank Seniors, the most on the team.
Jack Carstensen connects with one down the left field line duirng a game earlier this season for the Aurora Cooperative Juniors team.
Class A state polevault champion Malakai Maly of Lincoln East won the high school division with a mark of 15 feet even.
