The fire on Saturday near roads 10 and M southwest of Aurora burned into this shelter belt where there was quite a bit of dead wood for fuel. Aurora Fire Chief Tom Cox says because of smoldering in piles of wood, firefighters had to spend several hours on Sunday watching for hot spots and flareups due to the wind.

Aurora High School art students work on a new mural for the children's section of the Farr Library

German exchange student Amy Burrows is spending this school year as a sophomore at Giltner High School. Along with playing volleyball, serving as student manager for the girls basketball team and competing in speech, Burrows has enjoyed trying popular restaurants around Grand Island.

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The Giltner Fire Department extinguished a grass fire at mid-day onday

Former Aurora resident Ethan Mowery (right) has published three plays within the past two years ranging from 10-minute play to one-acts. While building himself as a playwright Mowery has participated in numerous plays and events at Newman University, one of them being the 14th annual 24-hour theatre in January where played Dimitri in “Gladiators of Zenova.” On stage with Mowery were, from left: Corbin Molina, who played Hamlet, and Steve Brown, who played Horiato.

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Mark Cohen

Fire danger is high in our area right now as evidenced by this grass fire on Saturday.