Waverly News

The winners of the 2012 Lincoln-Lancaster County Environmental Leadership Awards were honored today at a breakfast at the Champions Club.

High schools are soon to break for summer, prospect camps lurk around the corner and most college football teams are exiting Turn 2 of the 2013 recruiting class calendar, ready to start building speed down the back straightaway.

On this sunny afternoon, Bayliss Park is nearly silent. A preschool-aged boy splashes in water on one side of the large fountain.

A judicial nominating commission has forwarded the names of six people to the governor for consideration in filling a Lancaster County judgeship vacancy.

The applicants are John Albin, Thomas Fox, Edward Hoffman, Milissa Johnson-Wiles, Timothy Phillips, Rodney Reuter, Hobert Rupe and Jim Titus, all of Lincoln.