Pancake Feed Cancelled

Due to weather conditions - well, the Groundhog Day Blizzard - the Exeter Chamber of Commerce Pancake Feed which was scheduled for Wednesday, Feb 3 has been cancelled!  No free pancakes, tonight, folks!  When a new date has been rescheduled we will post this information.

Exeter-Milligan Celebrates 100 days of school

First graders dressed up like they were really old.  Front row from the left Brooklyn Oldehoeft, Kaylie Schlueter.  Back row Logan Johnson and Cheyenne Krupicka.

The first grade class poses with their projects made with 100 items.

The kindergarteners with their 100 books and the 100 items they brought to school.

Ensley and Braxton put their 100 items on the table.   Below Ensley works on her 100 book.

Above: Addison draws a picture of what she can eat 100 of.

The Exeter-Milligan first grade class made their own ultra-cool t-shirts with 100 items on them.  They are pictured here left to right Truman Milton, Adrien Mueller, R. J. Clevenger, Cohen Harre, Cheyenne Krupicka, Kaylie Schlueter, Brooklyn Oldehoeft and Sydney Engert (Logan Johnson is not pictured). 

Exeter-Milligan kindergarteners enjoyed popping lots of balloons at the end of their 100^th day of school.

Blizzard Predicted

There are all kinds of watches and warnings out there people.  Please be aware - this starts tonight and goes until Tuesday night.  Yes - we are in the red, blizzard warning.  Tie it down, hunker down and be prepared!

Brandt on Dean's List at Hastings College

                                                    Hastings College Fall Dean's List

            Hastings College has announced the Dean's List for its fall 2015 semester.  To be eligible for the Dean's List, students must achieve a grade point average of 3.7 to 4.0 on a 4.0 scale, and be registered as a full-time student.  This semester 372 of the college's approximately 1,200 students were named to the Dean's list.  Jordyn Brandt, a freshman from Exeter, has been named to the Dean's list.  

            Hastings College was founded in 1882 as a private, 4 year, liberal arts college, in Hastings, NE.  They offer more than 60 majors and the opportunity to create your own personalized degree program

Brandt Attends UNK Honor Band

                                           BRANDT ATTENDS UNK HONOR BAND  

            Trystan Brandt, a Junior at Exeter-Milligan High School, was selected to perform trumpet in the  Honor Band at the UNK Band and Choral Clinic on Jan. 25.  The students rehearsed all day on Monday and performed an evening concert.  The concert featured performances by the Festival Band, Honor Band, Women's Choir, Festival Choir, and Honor Choir.  The Honor Band was directed by Dr. Duane Bierman, professor of music and director of bands at UNK.  Participants were selected by recorded auditions and attended from Nebraska and Kansas

Henry Doorly Zoo visits Exeter-Milligan

 Exeter-Milligan seventh grader Blake Meyer touches a snake held by Henry Doorly Zoo docent Alice.

 Alice, a docent from Henry Doorly Zoo, helps Exeter-Milligan seventh graders (l-r) Dylan Bonds, Jaiden Papik and Sean Gibson, feel the muscles in the belly of a Cave Rat snake.

 Exeter-Milligan kindergarten, first and second graders were impressed with the shell of a sea turtle that Peter brought with him from the Henry Doorly Zoo.

The Henry Doorly Zoo came to Exeter-Milligan on Monday afternoon, January 25.

The seventh grade class were guided by a Zoo presenter, Peter, in dissecting an albatross bolus.  This is the inedible items of an albatross.  They form into a large cylinder and the albatross regurgitates it similar to what an owl does with a pellet.  

The students found a variety of inedible items in their bolus including plastic packaging and squid beaks.

The seventh grade class also learned about a Cave Rat snake from a docent, Alice, who came along.  The seventh graders got to touch the different scales of the snake and then several of them got to feel the muscles in the snakes belly as it crawled along on their hands.

Later in the afternoon the kindergarten, first and second grade classes got to hear a presentation on animal superpowers by Peter.  Some of the superpowers the students were able to guess and try to imitate but they couldn’t seem to hold their breath for three hours like a sea turtle or sleep for 90 days like a black bear.  The students were impressed that the beaver could make it’s own lakes and the shark could regrow it’s teeth.