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Gretchen Brosman, right, works as an outreach coordinator through the AIM Institue and previously worked as a career specialist through Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) to help students in Hall, Buffalo and Adams counties in leadership and service projects.

Gretchen Brosman, right, works as an outreach coordinator through the AIM Institue and previously worked as a career specialist through Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) to help students in Hall, Buffalo and Adams counties in leadership and service projects.

Brosman finds purpose setting students up for success

Elizabeth Hunter
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
When getting students involved with community service, Aurora native Gretchen Brosman is right there every step of the way encouraging them to strive for success.After graduating from Aurora High School in 2012, Brosman studied vocal performance at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
2024 Business year in review

2024 Business year in review

2024: A year of growth, change in business

Kurt Johnson
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Flipping through the News-Register’s weekly business page, we found numerous stories of business start-ups and expansion, as well as a few setbacks. As always, the one constant is change, and we recorded plenty of that in 2024. What follows is a summary review of the year’s business news.Jan.
Exchange students from all over Nebraska gathered at the Ivy Sunday Dec. 8 to celebrate Christmas and try new traditions. The students had traveled earlier this year from Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy and Spain.

Exchange students from all over Nebraska gathered at the Ivy Sunday Dec. 8 to celebrate Christmas and try new traditions. The students had traveled earlier this year from Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy and Spain.

Return of Christmas around the world

Elizabeth Hunter
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Festivities have returned to the Ivy with twelve exchange students and their host families celebrating beloved and new Christmas traditions.
For two years, sisters Heather Nolan (left) and Mandee Lade have been turning their family hobby into a newfound business, R.H. (Ryan and Heather) Crafts, with Nolan’s husband, Ryan, assisting with the woodwork for the trees and flags pictured below.

For two years, sisters Heather Nolan (left) and Mandee Lade have been turning their family hobby into a newfound business, R.H. (Ryan and Heather) Crafts, with Nolan’s husband, Ryan, assisting with the woodwork for the trees and flags pictured below.

Grand Island sisters craft some Christmas cheer

Elizabeth Hunter
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Two sisters from Grand Island have brought their family hobby of crafting to local craft shows, just in time for the season of giving.Heather Nolan, who works at Aurora Boardworks in Aurora, and Mandee Lade started selling wooden Christmas trees and decor as R.H.
Alicia Hock, a Giltner area native who now lives in Cairo, displays some of her soughdough bread served up as part of her new Cowboy KT Creations venture.

Alicia Hock, a Giltner area native who now lives in Cairo, displays some of her soughdough bread served up as part of her new Cowboy KT Creations venture.

Hock finds her niche with sourdough

Kurt Johnson
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
There’s something about sourdough bread that Alicia Hock finds fascinating, as well as delicious.So much so that the Giltner area native launched a home-based business earlier this year which allows her to stay home baking up a recipe with equal parts motherhood, yeast, water and TLC.
Hamilton County Board of Commissioners news

Hamilton County Board of Commissioners news

County signs off on Lac Denado replat

Ron Burtz
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
The Hamilton County Board of Commissioners worked through most of its agenda quickly in its final meeting of 2024, moving up various agenda items as it waited for the clock to roll around to 9 a.m. for a scheduled public hearing.
Belgian Marie Brasseur, right, a foreign exchange student to Aurora in 1997-98, stands next to Deanna Powell who was one of her four host mothers during her year in the U.S.

Belgian Marie Brasseur, right, a foreign exchange student to Aurora in 1997-98, stands next to Deanna Powell who was one of her four host mothers during her year in the U.S.

A great year, journey that ‘changed my whole life’

Ron Burtz
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
A customer of Deanna Powell’s Dream Designs Bridal Shop has finally returned to pick up a dress she purchased from the shop nearly two decades ago. That’s a story in itself, but it’s just a part of the much larger story of Marie Brasseur’s recent return visit to Aurora.
Following an inspection by a structural engineer, this 1893 opera house building in Hampton has been declared by the village board of trustees to be unsafe and a hazard to the public.

Following an inspection by a structural engineer, this 1893 opera house building in Hampton has been declared by the village board of trustees to be unsafe and a hazard to the public.

Former Hampton Opera House declared unsafe

Ron Burtz
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
A crumbling building on Hampton’s downtown 3rd Street that has been under scrutiny by the village board has been determined to be unsafe and a hazard by a structural engineer.
Food pantry volunteers help distribute bags packed with ham or turkey and all the trimmings for a special meal during Saturday’s annual holiday food distribution event.

Food pantry volunteers help distribute bags packed with ham or turkey and all the trimmings for a special meal during Saturday’s annual holiday food distribution event.

Holiday food pantry distribution warms hearts

Kurt Johnson
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
There was ice on the ground but warmth all around Saturday morning at the Hamilton County Food Pantry in Aurora.Individuals from 68 families braved the cold to collect their choice of ham or turkey to go along with bags filled with all the makings for a festive holiday meal.
Young Stetson Avina creates a photo op for mom Heather, posing as an elf shortly after sitting on Santa’s lap during the Come Home to Christmas celebration Nov. 30 in Aurora.

Young Stetson Avina creates a photo op for mom Heather, posing as an elf shortly after sitting on Santa’s lap during the Come Home to Christmas celebration Nov. 30 in Aurora.

Merry Christmas from ANR!

News Staff
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
It's here! Our biggest issue of the year with 52 big pages of holiday cheer, plus all the latest Hamilton County news, sports, commentary and ag news.