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Bridgeport—Lewis Coulter, Community President of Platte Valley Bank in Bridgeport, presented a check February 8 for $100,000 to the Morrill County Building Champions Committee to help reach their goal to build a new exhibit hall and livestock pavilion at the Morrill County Fairgrounds. Groundbreaking is set for August of 2024.

Bridgeport was the site of the Western Trails Conference, South Platte Valley Association, Minuteman Activities Conference, and the combination PAC wrestling tournament last Thursday. The Bulldogs placed seventh overall out of seventeen teams, with 85 points.

For the second time this season, the Bridgeport basketball teams made a championship sweep of a conference tournament.

The Leyton Warriors have been busy on the basketball court the last couple of weeks, defeating Banner County at home on Tuesday, January 23 by a score of 60-43.

Three Broadwater men were nominated by Unit 312 Broadwater Legion Auxiliary for a Quilt of Valor, and each were awarded a quilt during a recent ceremony in Broadwater.The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is, “To cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor.”

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The Bridgeport Speech team remains on top with yet another Class C/D championship trophy, this time brought home from Chadron last Saturday.

Platte Valley Bank Community President Lewis Coulter of Bridgeport presented almost $5,000 to the Broadwater Volunteer Fire Department on December 27th.

Bridgeport High School Art Club traveled to Denver for their annual art trip recently to see the exhibit “All Stars: American Artists from The Phillips Collection”. This exhibit showcased some of the “Best of American art from the Washington, DCbased The Phillips Collection, one of the most celebrated collections of American art in the United States”, according to an online source about the exhibit.

Bridgeport’s famed Simple Co. has moved its coffee bar and flower shop from the location in the old Tarnished Halo building, on the southeast corner of 10th and Main Street, into its new location on the northwest corner of 11th and Main Street.This building was most recently occupied by Class and Sass, and before that wasWildman’s Bar and Grill.