By posting career-best marks at the Class B District 6 Meet on Tuesday, May 7 at Ogallala, three Chadron High School girls qualified for the first half of the Nebraska State Meet that began Wednesday and will conclude today, Thursday, May 16, in Omaha. The first two days of the meet feature …
Several students will each receive an additional $100 in funding for their trips to National competitions later this year, following action taken by the Chadron Public School Board of Education Monday night.
The Chadron Culture Club which was organized in 1898 is celebrating its 126th Anniversary. In 1898 Mrs. George Harmony (Margaret), Mrs. J.G. Romine (Gertrude) and Mrs. Charles Foster (Anne) met to found the Thursday Club, which met weekly to read poetry and to study. By October of 1899, the …
Though clouds kept the skies gray and the temperatures low over the weekend, it didn’t keep hearty hikers from taking to the Steamboat Trail at Chadron State Park for the Trail Mix and Tree Huggers event hosted by the Northwest Nebraska Trails Association (NNTA).
For about a year, Rex Cogdill has been serving as the curator of the Dawes County Historical Museum, alongside co-curators Barb McCartney and Linda Rotness. One of the many facets of the Dawes County Historical Society — the Golden Age Courier being another that’s well-known — the museum’s o…
With three players ranking among the top 10, the Chadron High boys’ golf team finished third among the nine teams at its home tournament on Thursday, April 25.
Ashley Ahrens, who started with UNL Extension in January of 2023, has been the lead educator in Dawes County since June of last year, taking over from Jenny Nixon. She’s also the Food, Nutrition and Health Educator for Dawes, Sioux, Sheridan and Box Butte County, as well as the lead educator…
For about a year, Rex Cogdill has been serving as the curator of the Dawes County Historical Museum, alongside co-curators Barb McCartney and Linda Rotness. One of the many facets of the Dawes County Historical Society — the Golden Age Courier being another that’s well-known — the museum’s o…
With three players ranking among the top 10, the Chadron High boys’ golf team finished third among the nine teams at its home tournament on Thursday, April 25.
Ashley Ahrens, who started with UNL Extension in January of 2023, has been the lead educator in Dawes County since June of last year, taking over from Jenny Nixon. She’s also the Food, Nutrition and Health Educator for Dawes, Sioux, Sheridan and Box Butte County, as well as the lead educator…
Former NASCAR driver and racing analyst Kyle Petty is hitting the open road once again to lead the 28th Anniversary Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America – one of the most popular charity rides in the country — with one of the first stops in Chadron on Sunday, May 4.
The public is invited to join the Northwest Nebraska Trails Association on Saturday, April 27, at 3:30 p.m., for a hike on the Steamboat Trail.
Tuesday evening, April 23, saw the first local forum of the 2024 election year, with candidates for Chadron City Council and Dawes County Commission District 3 Republican race answering various questions. Though eight candidates are on the ballot — five for council and three for the commissi…
Chadron High School’s newest club, the Science Club, competed at their first ever Science Olympiad on April 9 in Ogallala, with Hina Hinman taking first place in Forensics, Sammi Brodrick and Hinman placing second in Fermi Questions, and Emmerson Landreth and Lillie Uhing placing third in Wr…
It was Cody Kahl who was first crowned on Saturday evening, being named the 2024 Chadron Junior/Senior Prom King and receiving his crown from Ike Nitsch.
With 16 team members scoring points, the Chadron High School girls breezed, or maybe we should say shivered, their way to victory at their annual Twilight Track and Field Meet that took place at Cardinal Field on Friday, April 19. With the temperatures in the mid-30s to go with a wind that m…
Author Poe Ballantine will be at the library Saturday, April 27, at 2:30 p.m. Ballantine is a fiction and nonfiction writer known for his novels and essays, many of which have appeared in The Sun. His second novel, "Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire", won Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year.
The public is invited to attend a dual canine presentation at the Dawes County Museum on Sunday, April 28, beginning at 2 p.m.
Next week will see the 2024 Chadron Festival of Quilts, at the Dawes County Fairgrounds, April 26-28. The festival, featuring a theme of "Disappearing Blocks - It's All About The Cut" this year, will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27, and from 12-4 p.m.…
Those looking to be more involved with the well-known Post Playhouse at Fort Robinson State Park can do so with a new organization.
Last week, motivational speaker Amberley Snyder spoke at CSC’s Memorial Hall, but also spent some time with Chadron high school and middle school students.
The Chadron High Future Business Leaders of America attended the annual State Leadership Conference in Kearney, April 11-13. To start the conference, students were motivated as they listened to the keynote speaker, John Beede and attended a variety of workshops.
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