Aurora's new inclusive playground taking shape.
East Park Villa housekeeper Maddy (Barnes) Baker performs for residents at East Park Villa during the grand opening of The Grille on Friday, March 27. Baker has showcased her musical talents around the area, often performing songs from the 50s and 60s.
Kathryn Dyer will end a 33-year career in education, spent almost entirely in Aurora, when she retires at the end of the school year. She is shown here working with a student in the preschool building where she spent most of her career.
Headsets allow 911 dispatchers at the Hamilton County Dispatch Center to have their hands free while they are taking calls from the public. The tabletop microphone in front of dispatcher Jessie Boroff (seated) is used for contacting police officers and other personnel in the field. Also pictured is fellow dispatcher Melissa Barry.
County Highway Supt. Jeremy Brandt sent a sample of the material dug from about six inches below the surface of 11 Road to Substrata, the Nevada company that manufactures Perma-zyme, and received back this shrink-wrapped puck made from the sample by adding the ezyme to it. It appears to be as hard as concrete.
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Aaron and Chandra Blase have been working on finishing up the new addition to their farmhouse in which they connected a grain bin to the north side of their home north of Hordville.
Danish exchange student Caspian Eshtelaq has enjoyed spending his time in the United States playing football, wrestling and soccer. During his time in Aurora, he has also discovered an interest in business and plans to study it when he attends college back in Denmark. In a few weeks he will graduate with the AHS Class of 2026.
Cale Carson has his trailer loaded with hay bales ready to be taken to Farnham area on March 25 to help feed cattle left hungry by the Cottonwood Fire which burned up thousands of acres of prairie grass earlier in the month.
Pictured from left are, Cooper Kuck, Reese Danielson, Kate Most and Maddox Eastman.