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Maybe it IS the giant elephant in the room

The April Board Meeting for Bridgeport Public Schools was held on April 10th at 7p.m.–in the High School Library. All Board members were present. The Board approved offering teaching contracts to Kimi Kramer (currently teaches here now under a one-year contract) and Delenn Rodriguez (currently student teaches here and a para here) for the 202324 school year. They both will teach Special Education. The Board also approved having a pre-school for four-year-old children (Current name of the program is “Little Bridges”) at the school next year. Head Start will continue and students can go to both. Mrs. Stacey Watts is endorsed in Early Childhood and will be the teacher, so there will be a 5th grade teaching opening that will be advertised on the Teach Nebraska Website. If you have a four-year-old that you would like to attend the preschool and have not let Mr. Lambert know yet, please email or call him at the office. To be eligible to attend, the student must turn four between August 1st of 2022 and on or before July 31st of 2023.The following administrate items were covered and the meeting adjourned at 7:45 AM: 1. Donkey Basketball will be here on April 24th at 7 PM. If you would like to buy tickets in advance, they will be $7 or at the gate for $10. Stop by one of the offices if you want to buy in advance. It will be a fun night and there will be concessions. Proceeds will go to the Cheerleaders.

Morrill County has reached a momentous agreement with the Morrill County Rodeo Farm and Ranch Association to purchase seven acres of the Morrill County Fairgrounds just west off of Highway 88 south of Bridgeport, including the animal show buildings and exhibition hall. A long time in the making, Morrill County was the last county in the state who held a fair, not jointly with another county, that didn’t own its own fairgrounds.

It was a basketball extravaganza last week in the new gymnasium at Bridgeport High School when the Bulldog family hosted the Crevier family and their spectacular show. Finalists out of 100,000 acts on America’s Got Talent, Bruce and Diane Crevier and their brood of twelve perform shows around the world, having been to forty countries, using their talents and resources, “To encourage, equip, inspire and challenge youth and adults to become Champions in the Game of Life.”

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Cynthia Ann Holum, 60 of Central City, Nebraska, passed away April 3, 2023, after a long struggle with COPD at Bryan East hospital in Lincoln, NE, surrounded by her loved ones.

Marjorie Ann Burnette, age 99, of Scottsbluff, NE, was received by the Lord on Sunday, March 26, 2023, due to a heart attack. As she believed, we shall look forward to seeing her again at Christ’s second coming. She was born on October 22, 1923, to John William and Marie Magdelena (Schriener) Friede on the family farm north of Lodgepole, NE, the eldest of 10 children. She attended school in rural Cheyenne County north of Lodgepole and graduated from Lisco High School in 1941. She attended one year of Business College at Hastings, NE. Marge married Carl H. Brown of Bridgeport, NE, on December 15, 1942.To this union was born four children: Harvey Joe, Linda Sue, Duane Oliver, and Cynthia Anne. On July 19, 1987, Marge married Thomas J. Burnette.

Trudy A. Ketteler, age 78, of Dalton, Nebraska, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, March 25, 2023 in Cheyenne,WY. Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at the United Church of the Plains in Dalton, NE, with Pastor Leon “Bud” Gillespie and PMA Bev Adam officiating. Interment was at the Dalton Cemetery in Dalton, NE. Services were recorded for later viewing on the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel website, and you may view Trudy’s Book of Memories, leave condolences, photos and stories at www.gehrigstittchapel.com.

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