Austin Allen announces retirement from football

“Every morning you wake up looking for a message and it’s not there. I don’t want to delay the start of my life anymore than I have to. It honestly felt like 400 pounds was lifted off my shoulders when I called my agent to say I’m hanging up the cleats.

There is no place like Nebraska

Nearly two full years into this dreaded pandemic COVID-19 hit the Aurora News-Register hard in recent weeks. In the 22 years Paula and I have owned this newspaper our staff has never, ever been quite as short of manpower and challenged to get the weekly edition out as we were the last two weeks.