A propane leak led to a home explosion March 12 in rural Seward County. “We’re 99% sure it was a propane explosion,” Tamora Fire Chief Jon Propst said. The Tamora, Utica and Goehner volunteer fire departments responded to the call. Propst said firefighters were able to knock the fire down quickly but spent about three hours monitoring to make sure it didn’t flare up again.
Work is expected to begin April 1 on Highway 6 through Milford. The project by the Nebraska
Department of Transporation will reconstruct about 1 mile of the highway and widen it 6 feet on either side.
Construction will run from the railroad crossing on the north side of Milford all the way through town
to the west side of F Street.
The Milford Nebraska Archery in Schools Program team was the state champion at the weekend state competition. In addition, Sydney Havlat of Milford scored 292 points out of a possible 300 shooting bull’s-eye targets for a record score for females. Milford also won the Nebraska Bowhunters Association Sportsmanship Trophy.
NASP is an in-school curriculum covering target archery for students in grades 4-12. The state tournament is the largest archery event in Nebraska. The state tournament saw 700 student-archers shoot bull’s-eye targets and 300 shoot 3D targets.
Read more in this week's Milford Times and next week's Seward County Independent.
The Concordia women's basketball team will play its round of 16 game today at 3 p.m. at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa. The Bulldogs (27-6) will play Providence (24-8). The game will be broadcast on 104.9 Max Country. All four of the senior players on the CU roster appeared at the Tyson Events Center in 2021 when the Bulldogs upset fourth-ranked Marian University (Ind.), 73-67, in the round of 16. Taysha Rushton’s 27 points in that game remain a career high for her on the national stage. Rushton also scored 26 points in last season’s 77-50 win over Columbia College (Mo.) in the first round of the tournament. In eight career national tourney games, Rushton has averaged 15.9 points (127 total points). Rushton and fellow seniors Kendal Brigham, Sadie Powell and Mackenzie Toomey have gone 5-3 at the national tournament game while appearing at nationals in each of their four years as Bulldogs.
Baseball @ Wahoo, 6:30 pm
Girls Soccer @ Auburn, 4:30 pm
Milford/Crete Baseball hosts a triangular, 2 pm (Tuxedo Park, Crete)
10 am: Good Shepard Lutheran Church, Milford
10 am: Ridgewood Rehab, Seward
1:30 pm: Sunrise County Manor, Milford
2 pm: Welch Park Ballfieds, Milford
11 am: Faith Lutheran Church, Seward
10 am: Plum Creek Park soccer fields, Seward
2 pm: Courthouse lawn, Seward
3 pm: Village Park, Beaver Crossing