Thursday, March 7

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It's official: Milford adopts city flag

The Milford City Council adopted a design for a city flag at its March 5 meeting. The flag was designed by soon-to-be Eagle Scout Nolan Eickhoff and was voted on by residents. Read more in next week's Milford Times.

Croston honored by Activities Administrators

Seward County Independent Sports Editor Stephanie Croston was honored March 6 for her outstanding athletic and activity coverage by the Nebraska State Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. Croston was a guest of honor at the NSIAAA's spring banquet at Wilderness Ridge in Lincoln. Read more about her in next week's SCI.

Ortmeiers teach lessons on and off the court

For Mark and Jordan Ortmeier, basketball has always been less about the game and more about family.

Mark began teaching and coaching 32 years ago, and he led the way for his son, Jordan, to follow in his footsteps.

Now approaching the end of his 14th year at Centennial Public School in Utica, Mark helped lead the girls’ basketball team to an 18-7 season in 2018-19 as an assistant coach under head coach Jake Polk, the team’s second consecutive winning season in the last 11 years.

Jordan is now in his fourth year teaching social studies.

His first two years were at Lewiston Consolidated, where he was an assistant coach for boys’ basketball and track.

He’s now teaching seventh through 12th graders at Giltner while head coaching the boys’ team and helping with junior high basketball and track.

Teaching runs in both sides of the family.

“My mom taught elementary in a one-room school house,” Mark said.

Read the full story HERE.

Change your clocks this weekend

Daylight Saving Time begins this Sunday, March 10. Remember to set your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed Saturday night.

Scoreboard

National No. 1 seed Concordia University beat Wilberforce 100-62 in the NAIA national tournament's first round. CU  advanced to the second round and will play Cardinal Stritch University (Wis.) at noon on Friday, March 8.

The boys' state basketball tournament starts today. Milford plays Ogallala at 2 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Centennial will play Wakefield at 8:45 p.m. at Lincoln Northeast. Good luck to the Eagles and Broncos!