The end of the 2020-21 school year at Shelton Public School sees three staff members making the decision to retire: high school secretary Vicki Rodriguez, district office secretary LeAnne Lacey and SPED instructor Faith Senff.
Down every trail is a story. This is a story of an abandoned cemetery whose trail had its beginning back east, when in the winter of 1870-71, Colonel John Thorpe entered into an agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad Company to locate a colony he was forming in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Col. Thorpe advertised in the newspapers of a new colony he was forming where he gave a glowing report of “free homesteads – free lands” along the railroad in Nebraska, calling attention to the fact that soldiers could homestead 160 acres of these lands within the railroad limits. Many of these soldiers saw an opportunity for a new beginnings and answered the call of Col. Thorpe.
Linda Spotanski (above) places a wreath during the Memorial Day service held at Gibbon’s Riverside Cemetery on Monday morning. (–photo by Dennis Walker)
Memorial Day services will be held across Clipper Country on Monday, May 31, “remembering all who served.”
Updates on the progress of the fire hall/city hall/community room project and the city’s meeting with Union Pacific Railroad representatives regarding the recent derailment were among the agenda items covered by the Gibbon City Council when it met for its regular monthly meeting on Monday, May 17.
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