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The Bridgeport City Council met in regular session Thursday, September 14. After a motion to remove item number 10 (Discussion/Posssible Action to approve the department recommended removal of Alicia Pittman and Adam Pittman from the fire department), the Consent Agenda was approved.The Pittmans were in attendance and provided background related to the recommendation from the Volunteer Fire Department.The council decided to take no action regarding the item.

Corman appointed to Fair Board

Out with the old and in with the new.That was the general sense when Synergy, a physical therapy clinic, moved into town, occupying the space that was vacated by the Dollar and Variety store next to Nein Pharmacy.

Bridgeport Public Schools welcomes Gering native Jason Blanco as the new secondary principal following the promotion of George Schlothauer from that position to Superintendent of Schools at Bridgeport. The superintendent’s position opened when Chuck Lambert, who had held the position for a number of years, took another position in Kansas.

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For the first time since 2017, the Bridgeport Girls Golf team brought home the Western Trails Conference Golf Team Champion trophy last Thursday. Mitchell has taken the top spot two of the past three years, and Kimball has taken it twice.This year’s tournament was played in Rushville.

Bridgeport welcomes home a former Bulldog, 2008 graduate Jase Dean, to the fifth-grade classroom. Dean was born and raised in Bridgeport, and, following graduation, attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. During his university days, Dean played football as a Nebraska Husker, and graduated with a bachelors in Fisheries and Wildlife in 2013. He is currently working towards obtaining his teaching certificate through the University of Nebraska-Kearney.

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Bridgeport Schools has had many successful programs and accomplishments, but one of the most recent ones is the Little Bridges Preschool that began on Monday.When Mr. Lambert decided to add a preschool, Stacey Watts felt it was her time to go back to the little kids. As a veteran teacher, this will be Watts’ eighteenth year of teaching: she graduated from Chadron State College in 2005, and taught kindergarten at Garden Ridge Elementary in Flower Mound,Texas for 3 years.