Across 33 games spread across Arapahoe, Indianola and mostly Cambridge, the South Central Nebraska Softball League held its annual tournament this weekend and a number of area teams found a great deal of success.

ARAPAHOE - After two years of planning, the renovations to Arapahoe’s Crystal Theater are close to beginning. The plans call for an expansion south into a portion of the Arapahoe Senior Center with a new lobby that includes ticket sales, concessions and ADA-compliant bathrooms.

The South Central Nebraska Baseball League year-end tournament begins next week with first-round games beginning Monday. The regular season concludes Thursday.

Teachers of Tomorrow (ToT), one of the nation’s largest teacher preparation programs, today announced the launch of Nebraska Teachers of Tomorrow, a new stateapproved alternative teacher preparation program designed to help more aspiring educators enter the classroom and support school districts across Nebraska with a stronger, more reliable teacher pipeline. The program is now accepting applications.

The South Central Nebraska Softball League brings its annual season-end tournament to Cambridge this weekend. While first-round games will be played at higher seeds Friday evening, the quarterfinals, semifinals, third-place games and championship games for 8U, 10U, 12U and 14U as well as medal round games for 18U will be played on the two fields at McKinley Park, beginning at 8 a.m.

ARAPAHOE – The school board conducted their business meeting in under an hour on June 8, 2026. Among topics discussed were the School Wellness Policy review that included the Triennial Wellness Policy Assessment Report and food/ nutrition pricing for the upcoming school year as well as substitute teacher pay rates.

IMPERIAL - The Cambridge- Arapahoe Post 199 Galdiators’ junior baseball team dropped its first two contests of the season, falling 12-4 at Alma Saturday and 9-3 at Imperial on Monday. The seniors’ season opener at Imperial was stopped due to a storm in the fourth inning Monday and will be resumed at a later date.

In its season-opener at Wood River Thursday, the Hi-Line Post 290 seniors capitalized on free bases and built an 11-4 lead to the bottom of the sixth, but saw Wood River score eight unanswered runs to walk off a 12-11 winner.

The Elwood Public Schools Board of Education met on Monday, June 8th, 2026. The meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. School Board President Ryan Shutts was absent and all other members were present. There was no public comment.

COLUMBUS - Southwest senior Houston Billeter fired a two-day total of 157 to tie for seventh and earn his secondconsecutive State medal to lead local players at the Class D State Tournament in Columbus last week. Billeter shots rounds of 78 and 79 to finish in a threeway tie for the seventh-place medal.