The Junior Pirates’ third grade volleyball team began their volleyball season with practice on August 29. The 3rd grade has 12 girls participating in volleyball this year and are ...
City council members approved the hire of a new police officer, changes to a number of stop signs in town, and had a quick overview of the budget workshop for the 2022-2023 fiscal ...

Jeff Barnes will present two programs, “Marking Nebraska: Our (Mostly) Hidden Historical Monuments” at 1:30 p.m. and “Bad Man in a Better Place: Jesse James in Nebraska” at 3:00 p....

Board members held two meetings on Monday, September 13, a special school budget hearing and immediately following, their regular monthly meeting.
The school budget hearing, whic...

An Elkhorn man made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery in the Missouri River: a fossil of what appears to 90-million-year-old fish.
Fishing is more than a sport for Andy Moore. “It’s ...

The Plainview Arts Council will start their 2022-2023 season with an outdoor concert at the Bandshell Park featuring local performer Kimberly Meyer.
The concert will be held on W...

The Plainview Pirate football team moved to 2-0 on the regular season with a Homecoming week win, capping off last week’s festivities with a 54-28 win over the visiting Hartington-...

When the Klown Doll Museum counted the Klown items, we had to apply for the Guiness Book of World Records, we knew we had over 7,800.Now, we have more than 8,000, and boxes are pil...

The 2022 Homecoming Coronation was held at Plainview Public Schools last Friday, Sept. 2, following a parade that trailed a bit more than a mile through neighborhoods and downtown ...
The Pirate volleyball team traveled to Wakefield on Thursday for the first match of the season. This was an up and down game for the girls with Plainview taking the loss, one set t...

The Plainview Pirate varsity football team hosted the Wakefield Trojan football team for the season opener – and took a two-point win over the visiting team for the first Pirate wi...

This year's Plainview Pirate Homecoming Candidates were released late last week for this year’s celebration dubbed “Lights, Camera, Action!”
The 2022 Coronation event will be held...

This year's Plainview Pirate Homecoming Candidates were released late last week for this year’s celebration dubbed “Lights, Camera, Action!”The 2022 Coronation event will be held o...

Mid-morning on Wednesday, Aug. 17, traffic was halted on Highway13 at the southwest crossing in Plainview by a train that had stopped across the tracks.Closer to the other end of t...

Hunter Ashburn--High School Science Teacher My name is Hunter Ashburn and I am a 7-12 Science teacher. I grew up in this small town of Plainview and graduated from Plainview Public...

Grasshoppers and blister beetles are appearing in gardens. These two insects have a connection and grasshoppers thrive in dry weather so this is not a surprise. Both insects cause ...

The regular meeting of the city council was held Tuesday, Augus 9th at the city library to hear report for the city’s summer activities, as well as look at selecting a new Police C...

Pirate fans far and wide have been invited to attend the 2022 Fall Sports Kickoff hosted by the Plainview Pirate boosters for the upcoming seasons on Friday, Aug. 19.
The event wi...

Dominic White, 13, of Plainview, recently competed in the 2022 Clay Cup Nationals at Deming Speedway in Deming Washington, July 14-16.
He competed in the 600 Open Outlaw class aga...

The 2022 5th Annual Forever Pirates golf tournament and memorial were held at the Plainview Country Club last weekend.
The event started with a tribute to those Pirates who had p...