Alliance High School English teacher Jill Hoesing has been presented the Nebraska School Activities Association Distinguished Service Award, which is the highest recognition award given by the NSAA.
It's officially completed and open for public viewing. The displays at the Knight Museum and Sandhills Center officially opened for public viewing Monday afternoon following a ribbon cutting ceremony that included dozens of fourth graders from Box Butte County's elementary schools.
It sounds like the tagline to a poorly executed horror film: He's lived here for nearly a month, yet he doesn't know the first thing about this house! Since moving in on the first of February, I've kept a steady regimen of slipping through the door sometime past midnight, quietly taking off my shoes and stepping out into the creak-filled darkness.
The Alliance Fire Dept will receive a new fire truck this year. The Alliance City Council Thursday night agreed to purchase the new truck from Smeal Fire Apparatus Company of Snyder, NE in the amount of $365,966.00. The City will finance the fire truck with First National Bank for 10 years at 4.55% interest.
Officials with The Mercantile farm and ranch supply stores are expected to announce on Wednesday that the stores in a four-state area have been purchased by Bomgaars, a farm and ranch chain based in Sioux City, Iowa.