By Tyler Dahlgren For years, Officer Zac Lauenstein kept the drawers in his Beatrice High School office stocked with snacks to bridge the gap from meal to meal. Pop-Tarts, granola bars, sweet and salty crackers- the good stuff . Over his 12 years serving as a high school resource officer, Lauenstein hosted countless students in that office, their troubles wide-ranging, some more severe than...Read More

By Tyler Dahlgren The streets of Odell are almost always quiet. As the sun set Tuesday night, silence echoed up and down the small village’s streets. I had my windows down, enjoying one of the first cool breezes of Autumn. It was a true joyride. An easy kind of peaceful. Completely still. Odell, I tell you, could have passed for a ghost town. But then I heard it. Climbing up Perry Street, still a...Read More