Jitse Valkenburg is taking part in the Education First exchange program and spending the school year at Aurora High School in order to figure out what he wants to pursue after graduation.

This photo, taken in 2003, shows Interstate Battery owners, from left: Paula Danhauer, the late Dee Koberstein, and Lee Danhauer, standing on a Highway 14 site where construction was about to begin on a new location. Dee and her husband, Bob, moved from Florida to Aurora in 1973 to establish a business which marked its 50th anniversary last year. Zack Danhauer is now the franchise distributor, representing the third generation of family ownership.

Giltner Public Schools

The Plainsman Museum hosted a Day on the Farm in September at the newly renovated Wesley Huenefeld Agricultural Museum, one of many successful events in 2023.

A graphic shared on social media by the Village of Hampton describes procedures for safe water use during a boil order.

This wrecked minivan parked along Highway 14 near the Aurora Cemetery on Friday morning was one of several vehicles involved in a pileup caused by Thursday afternoon’s surprise snow squall that blew through this area. As many as a dozen cars were damaged in several multi-vehicle collisions

The official Hamilton County ballot dropbox outside the courthouse stands lonely and covered in snow now, but for about three weeks in May and November it will be well used by voters dropping off their mail-in or early voting ballots.

This photo taken by Zach Hunnicutt as he waited out Thursday’s snow squall on 8th Road north of Giltner shows conditions as the storm began to pass by. Hunnicutt had waited in his vehicle for nearly 40 minutes for this moment so he could see to drive again.