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The weather didn’t keep too many folks away from the Spring Daze craft fair on Saturday at the Prairie Winds Community Center, hosted by Lorraine Mann of Bridgeport.

The Courthouse and Jail Rock Chapter of the National Honor Society held their Tapping Induction Ceremony on Monday night in the high school auditorium.

Ballistic missile project

March 21, 2018–Leyton Speech Team 1st at Districts, eight entries qualified for state…BHS Art Club visits the Denver Art Museum and are pictured…Jocelyn Pohl and Kyler Watts, Bridgeport, have been selected to attend American Legion Auxiliary Cornhusker Girls State…Bridgeport Speech team is also state bound and are pictured…Obituaries: Frances Fay (Bowness) Bilby, 91; Jeanne Camille Westervelt, 82...

The consumption tax just won’t go away, but it should

LINCOLN—The Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (NDEE) has remaining funds available for Nebraska schools and licensed child care facilities to sample for lead in their drinking water. All public, parochial, and private schools from pre-K through high school, and public and inhome child care facilities qualify. This free lead testing was first announced in August 2020.

Drew Leisy

Weekly testing to continue on Thursdays at 10 a.m.

With a roster filled with plenty of youth and inexperience, the Bridgeport boys basketball team expected to feel some growing pains this season. That certainly proved to be true, especially early on, as the Bulldogs split their first eight games and just couldn’t find the right consistency. It didn’t help that three of those four losses came to opponents that ended up finishing the season with 23 or more wins.

State bound speakers from Bridgeport gave a special performance on Monday night in the high school auditorium; the widely talented group performed before a fair-sized crowd, who could be heard laughing one minute and brought to tears the next.