Trinity Academy senior Vesper Haley always gives her best to everything she does.
Now, she is a 2027 National Merit Scholarship semifinalist. Read more in the Oct. 28 Independent.
The Seward City Council on Oct. 20 moved forward on its plans to issue $5.5 million in electric system revenue bonds for planned improvements that include the new substation transformer in the industrial Railway Campus. Find out more in the Oct. 28 SCI.
The Seward High Key Club's haunted house at the Zimmerer Mansion in Seward opens tonight from 7-10 p.m. Cost is $10. It will be open 7-10 p.m. through Thursday and 7-11 p.m. Friday. More information about the house is in the Oct. 21 Independent.
The monthly birthday meal at the Milford Senior Center will be Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 11:45 a.m. Meal reservations were due Oct. 23. After the meal, Paul Siebert will entertain with Echoes of an Era, presenting a musical living history program of a family’s journey from Russia to Nebraska in the 1870’s.
The Utica Senior Center will host Bingo the last Wednesday of the month at 12:30 p.m. There is no cost. Call the day before for counting.
The Rosary for Charles Brown will begin at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 27 at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, followed by Mass. A graveside service will be at the Seward Cemetery.
Milford 3, Ashland-Greenwood 0 (26-24, 25-15, 25-17)
Boone Central 3, Centennial 0 (25-16, 25-23, 25-17)
Tuesday matches
Subdistrict C1-2 final: Milford vs Fairbury at 6:30p at Milford
Subdistrict C1-3 semifinal: Malcolm vs Syracuse at 6p at Malcolm
Football
Waverly 49, Seward 12
Lincoln Christian 43, Milford 14
EMF 58, Centennial 18
Malcolm 43, Fillmore Central 7
State cross country
The Seward boys' team won its first ever state cross country championship Oct. 23. Jackson Einspahr was the race champion, also a first for the Bluejays. He also received the all-class gold for the fastest boys' time of the day. The girls' team was the state runner-up.
In Class C, Macie Carter of Milford earned seventh place in the girls' race.
The Centennial girls' team posted its highest every team finish with third in Class D. Stella Steele earned fourth place overall, and Carter Fritz placed 13th in the boys' race.
Weightlifting
In the kickoff to the fifth season in program history, Concordia University weightlifting came away with team and individual hardware. The Bulldogs hoisted the team championship trophy after action concluded on Oct. 24 at the 2026 Iowa-Nebraska Weightlifting State Organization Championships held at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Eight Concordia lifters emerged as champions within their weight classes and Kaiden Mima earned distinction as Best Overall Male Lifter while Taylor Hedke was named Best Senior Female Lifter.
Shooting sports
Following two idle weekends, Concordia University shooting sports returned to action for its final outing of the fall. The Bulldogs emerged from the Southeast Community College Bobcat Invitational Oct. 24-25 with a team HOA (high overall) placement of second while spurred by individual HOA champions in graduate students Devin Harris and Katie Welker-Luetje. Each competitor took aim at 300 targets over the disciplines of trap, skeet and sporting clays at Lincoln Trap & Skeet Club in Lincoln.
