The Crofton Journal -

The Crofton Girl Scouts will be selling seven varieties of cookies as their annual fundraiser through the month of March. The Crofton troop meets twice a month under the leadersh...

The Crofton Elementary students collected cans of food for the Yankton Contact Center on the week of January 25. The entire school collected 620 cans of food. Each class had a con...

Junior Crofton/Bloomfield wrestler, William Poppe, marked his 100th career wrestling win at the MidState Conference tournament last week in the 138 lb. weight class.

By: Quinn Schieffer, CCS Journalism Crofton High School Sophomore Madisen Petersen represented the Crofton-Bloomfield Wrestling Team at the NSWCA Girls State Wrestling Tournamen...

Crofton, and much of Nebraska overall, saw snow on Monday, accumulating Monday afternoon and evening to around four to six inches across most of the area. Starting in again on Tue...

John Stanosheck of Osmond will be taking over as manager of West-Hodson Lumber and Concrete in Crofton as of Monday, January 18. Brett Schmidt (right) of Crofton, has managed the ...

Crofton Community School recently released their “Student of the Term” award notifications for the second term of the 2020-2021 school year. “This program has been a great succ...

NOTE: In our ongoing series called, “Veteran Stories,” this week we feature Phillip W. Merchen, who served with the 5 th Armored “Victory” Division in Central Europe during ...

Kasi Haberman of the Yankton Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) spearheaded a round table discussion on regional tourism at the Crofton Haymarket on Wednesday, December 16. Thi...

The City of Crofton was recently notified of the award of a grant to the City from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality for the local recycling efforts and expenses. T...

From the NCDHD: By the end of the week, North Central District Health Department (NCDHD) will move to COVID-19 Vaccination Phase1B in Antelope, Brown, Boyd, Cherry, Holt, Key...

From Senator Tom Briese’s Office Nebraska District 41 One of the most popular legislative bills in recent memory is coming back for 2021: Ending the twice-yearly chan...

NOTE: In our ongoing series called, “Veteran Stories,” this week we feature Father William Cappius, who was born in Westphalia, Germany, and emigrated to the U.S. He was orda...

NOTE: In our ongoing series called, “Veteran Stories,” this week we feature Norbert Francis Guenther, who served in West Germany from 1954 to 1956 with the 34 th Field Artil...

From the Nebraska School Activities Association Circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic are constantly changing and vary from community to community. Difficult decisio...

NOTE: In our ongoing series called, “Veteran Stories,” this week we feature Michael D. Schmitz, or “Father Mike,” as he is known to most Crofton area residents. Before his or...

Governor Pete Ricketts announced late last week that the State is moving from the “yellow” to “blue” phase of its coronavirus pandemic response plan. As a result, the State of ...

NOTE: In our ongoing series called, “Veteran Stories,” this week we feature Harry T. Smith, who served with the 34 th Infantry, known as the Sandstorm Division, in World War I,...

From the DHHS As of this morning, 8,985 Nebraskans have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine since the first shipments began arriving in the state a week ago, accord...

NOTE: In our ongoing series called, “Veteran Stories,” this week we feature Richard Edward Loyd West, who served with distinction in World War I, and went on to found West Lumbe...