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Booster Days in Hampton is this weekend

Booster Days in Hampton is this weekend

Summer Lovin’ Booster Days starts Friday

“Summer Lovin’ in Hampton” is the theme for this year’s Booster Days celebration set to kick off on Friday evening. That theme, according to organizing committee chair Corbin Fagan, is a loose nod to America’s 250th birthday this summer and the way the nation’s bicentennial was celebrated in 1976.
Committee members and other supporters of the new Hampton Veterans Memorial Park gathered at the site on the grounds of the City Auditorium on Memorial Day to celebrate the beginning of construction on the monument. Organizers hope to have the major part of construction on the park completed by this fall.

Committee members and other supporters of the new Hampton Veterans Memorial Park gathered at the site on the grounds of the City Auditorium on Memorial Day to celebrate the beginning of construction on the monument. Organizers hope to have the major part of construction on the park completed by this fall.

Veterans Memorial Park taking shape in Hampton

Many of the folks who attended the Memorial Day services at the Hampton Cemetery took a few minutes to pose for a historic photo op before going in for the luncheon at the City Auditorium on May 25.
Todd Jensen, left, is sworn in as a new member of the Aurora City Council May 26 by Deputy Clerk Di Ana Leininger. Jensen will fill out the remaining 2-1/2 years of Wayne Roblee’s Ward 1 term.

Todd Jensen, left, is sworn in as a new member of the Aurora City Council May 26 by Deputy Clerk Di Ana Leininger. Jensen will fill out the remaining 2-1/2 years of Wayne Roblee’s Ward 1 term.

Jensen appointed to fill council seat

The newest member of the Aurora City Council was approved and sworn into office May 26 and wasted no time getting involved in the proceedings.
The bridge just north of the intersection at Kronborg will be replaced later this summer

The bridge just north of the intersection at Kronborg will be replaced later this summer

Bid for Kronborg bridge goes to Norfolk company

As expected after bids from five construction contractors were opened at the May 18 meeting of the Hamilton County Commission, the bid for replacing the Kronborg Bridge on North T Road was awarded to Norfolk Contracting on Monday.
Edgerton's Power Up Day Camp

Edgerton's Power Up Day Camp

Power Up Camp

Linemen from Southern Public Power District demonstrated what happens when a powerline falls on a car at the Edgerton Explorit Center’s Power Up Electrical and Circuits Day Camp on Thursday.
The Students 4 Sustainability Club from CCC drilled holes in the ground and then placed nearly 30 different types of annuals and perennials for the garden, to provide food sources and a breeding grounds for butterflies, bees and other types of insects.

The Students 4 Sustainability Club from CCC drilled holes in the ground and then placed nearly 30 different types of annuals and perennials for the garden, to provide food sources and a breeding grounds for butterflies, bees and other types of insects.

CCC students plant pollinator garden in Phillips

The consistent rain last Friday kept many people indoors, but not the members of Students 4 Sustainability, who eagerly spent their morning planting a new pollinator garden in Phillips.
Little Stingers Childcare had its two modulars relocated to the lot south of Giltner Elementary School last week to expand its facilities in order to meet the growing needs for children and staff. Little Stingers will be hosting a womens nine-hole golf scramble on June 12 to raise money for the ongoing construction and facility needs.

Little Stingers Childcare had its two modulars relocated to the lot south of Giltner Elementary School last week to expand its facilities in order to meet the growing needs for children and staff. Little Stingers will be hosting a womens nine-hole golf scramble on June 12 to raise money for the ongoing construction and facility needs.

Little Stingers buzz over to new location

It was a sight to behold for the children at Little Stingers Childcare as they watched the tan modular be moved from Giltner Public Schools to the lot across from the elementary school playground where they were playing last Wednesday afternoon.
Siblings Grace and Noah Ziegler both graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Nebraska Omaha this spring. They are the children of Dan and Dixie Ziegler of Aurora.

Siblings Grace and Noah Ziegler both graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Nebraska Omaha this spring. They are the children of Dan and Dixie Ziegler of Aurora.

Local students graduate from area institutions

   Several students from or with connections to Hamilton County recently graduated from institutions of higher learning located around the area and region.    Among them was Tate Pfeifer, grandson of Aurora residents Jim and Laurie Pfeifer.
Vietnam War veteran Marlin Seeman and his wife, Nancy, represented Nebraska on Memorial Day as they placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D.C.

Vietnam War veteran Marlin Seeman and his wife, Nancy, represented Nebraska on Memorial Day as they placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D.C.

Seeman lays wreath at D.C. cemetery

A Memorial Day weekend trip to Washington, D.C., became a “memory of a lifetime” for Mayor Marlin Seeman when he was invited to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
As she retires from her career as Hampton’s 2nd grade teacher, Barb Parsley says she is grateful for the support she has received in her 20 years at Hampton and the opportunity to truly know her students.

As she retires from her career as Hampton’s 2nd grade teacher, Barb Parsley says she is grateful for the support she has received in her 20 years at Hampton and the opportunity to truly know her students.

For Parsley, retirement from teaching career is bittersweet

As retiring Hampton 2nd grade teacher Barb Parsley reflects on her 30-year teaching career, the last 20 of which she has dedicated to Hampton Public School, she finds her self a bit melancholy about the change, but is also grateful for the atmosphere of support she has found in Hampton.