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75 Years Ago - June 23, 1949
RANDOLPH – Formal opening of Randolph’s Community Park, which with the completion of the grandstand has moved nearer to the culmination of long range planning, will be held Sunday night, June 26, when the evening’s feature will be the league game between Wausa and Randolph.
The grandstand is located in the southwest corner of the park, and has a seating capacity of 800. It is of steel posts on concrete base with plank seats which have back rests. It is built on a seventeen per cent grade. Bleachers give added seating capacity.
The Randolph city band will play at the formal opening.
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RANDOLPH – The Interstate Bus lines have restored bus service from Randolph to Norfolk.
The bus arrives here at 7:45 in the morning and goes from here through Belden, Laurel and Wayne to Norfolk, arriving in Norfolk at 9:35. On the return trip, the bus leaves Norfolk at 12:15 and is due in Randolph at 1 o’clock p.m.
The bus service to Norfolk makes connections there with all outgoing buses for various Nebraska cities.
60 Years Ago - June 18, 1964
RANDOLPH – “ZIP CODE is just as vital to modern postal progress in the small town as it is in the big cities,” Postmaster Marvin R. Weber said this week.
At the same time the postmaster defined the program as an economy measure designed to keep pace with the nation’s rising mail volumes without an “unmanageable” increase in the Department’s workroom personnel.
At a meeting of the Randolph Community Club Monday, the postmaster labeled the program as the only economical answer to what Postmaster General John A. Gronouski describes as a “mail explosion” of the 1960s and 70s.
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RANDOLPH – Rainfall received in the Randolph vicinity during the past week, in the form of showers on several occasions, has been most welcome, since this area has been on the short side of moisture the last month.
While other areas were receiving large amounts of moisture in hard rains, with considerable runoff, the immediate territory seemed to be on the fringe area.
However, rains received in the past week have been the gentle, soaking type, and most beneficial for crops and gardens.
Precipitation for the week totaled nearly two inches. The rainy period began with showers Thursday morning totaling .22 of an inch. Rainfall early Sunday morning and again near midnight netted .34 of an inch.
Heaviest amount of moisture during the week was over an inch and a half which fell in about a 24-hour period, extending from Tuesday morning to early Wednesday morning.
50 Years Ago - June 20, 1974 RANDOLPH – Lisa Kluver, Randolph’s representative to Girl’s State held in Lincoln received recognition as one of the outstanding young women attending.
Miss Kluver finished second in an examination given to the 400 girls on Nebraska Government at the end of the week’s attendance. For her placing in the top 9 she was presented a silver medallion at the Friday Awards Ceremony and was given a gold diploma in lieu of the regular blue diploma. Lisa was also elected to the school board in the mock election held during the week’s activities.
Lisa is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Kluver and was sponsored for the Girl’s State by the Randolph VFW Auxiliary and the Randolph Public School. *** RANDOLPH – Sunday was a day of celebration for St. John’s Lutheran Congregation in Randolph.
The choir members presented Ludwig Broer with a 50 year diamond pin in recognition of his many years of choir singing.
Mr. Broer was also presented a plaque with a cross and inscription from the congregation in appreciation.
The Church Council of twelve men attended both worship services in a group and presented Pastor Rossbach a gift in honor of 35 completed years in the ministry. At the second service they honored both Pastor and Mrs. Rossbach on their wedding anniversary which was also on June 16.
40 Years Ago - June 21, 1984 RANDOLPH – The Randolph Community Club Fair committee announced this week that the area eligible to show livestock at this year’s Randolph Fair has been expanded slightly to possibly increase the number of 4-H entries at the livestock show on Monday, July 9.
The extendable area affects an area to the south and west of Randolph toward Pierce with no changes made in the precincts of Cedar county.
Advance sale of tickets for the Fair barbecue and carnival rides go on sale this week at most Randolph business houses.
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The Randolph Lion’s club members have been busy this spring and summer trying to keep ahead of the grass at the Lion’s Club park near Highway 20. Club members have mowed the park several times and were busy on Monday night shortly after the supper hour trimming the grass.
30 Years Ago - June 22, 1994 RANDOLPH – Randolph Public Schools board members broke ground to begin construction on the new school addition, Monday, June 20, including Pat Rogers, Myron Strathman, Brad Mollet (architect), Jim Troshynski (superintendent); Dennis Kollars, Rick Dominisse and Jerry Wiese.
The present high school building will be demolished.
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RANDOLPH – The Community of Randolph has been named to the Hometown Pride Awards Honor roll. Randolph’s entry was an in depth report of the budding of the golf course and a summary of all of the volunteer hours spent by the people of the community.
This was a competition sponsored by the Midwest Living Magazine of Des Moines, Iowa. The competition showcases Midwesterners who make the Heartland a great place to live through community betterment efforts.
More than 450 volunteer projects were submitted to the Hometown Pride Awards program this year, on behalf of communities both large and small. Those honored ranged in size from Harrison, NE with its population of 291, to St. Louis, Mo., where volunteers clean trash and debris from vacant lots, alleys and streets, recycle metal and tires, along with 600 tons of yard waste for residents to use as compost. Out of the 450 projects, 90 were named to the honor Roll and 20 winners were awarded $1,000 cash awards to apply to their projects.
20 Years Ago - June 23, 2004 RANDOLPH – The Randolph Board of Education met in special session at the Randolph Elementary School to discuss air conditioning bids for the elementary school, June 15.
Board members agreed earlier this spring that the elementary school should be air-conditioned in order to provide a more beneficial learning environment.
They also thought it would save the school district money in the future.
Bids were submitted separately, one for the mechanical bid and another for the electrical. *** RANDOLPH – The Randolph, Osmond and Wausa Boards of Education met June 15 at 7:30 p.m. via the distance learning service. Each board was able to meet at their own school in their distance learning center with each being broadcast to the other schools. This type of technology provides the boards with the opportunity to discuss shared matters without having to travel out of their district.
After each board president called their respective meeting to order, the three boards shared ideas they had for saving their perspective district money. For example, the Wausa Superintendent Ms. Moore shared the fact the Wausa district changed the amount of their insurance deductible which saved their district over $14,000 in the first year. She answered questions from the other districts on the issue.
10 Years Ago - June 25, 2014 RANDOLPH – Approximately 37 new families were welcomed by a gathering of over 175 community members at the Randolph city auditorium on Sunday.
Ladies and men’s clubs from the three community churches helped to sponsor the event with the help of numerous volunteers.
Weeks before the welcome luncheon, club volunteers canvassed the town knocking on doors of newcomers and handing out 37 ShurFine insulated cooler bags donated by Jim’s food Center.
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COLERIDGE – Volunteers with the Red Cross Disaster Relief were on the scene in the Coleridge area last week giving assistance to those who were hit by Tuesday’s EF-3 tornado.
Red Cross worker Fred Lieyer, Paxton, arrived in Coleridge Wednesday and had planned on staying for two days.
He was still in the area Saturday morning.
He had no idea how long it would be before he would be headed back home.
