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Middlebrook Scholarship Awarded

Citizens State Bank & Trust Company, Trustee for the H.O. Middlebrook Scholarship Trust, has announced the 2025 award recipient. The Middlebrook Scholarship was created by H.O. and Helen Middlebrook in memory of their son, James Holmes Middlebrook, who died in infancy. Distributions began in 1945, the year James would have entered college. The Middlebrooks themselves were administrators until 1962, when H.O. Middlebrook passed away. Mr. Middlebrook’s will stated that the scholarship be preserved in a permanent trust, with Citizens State Bank & Trust Company as successor administrator. The one-year scholarship was designed to help college students through that critical freshman year. To date, over 300 students have benefited from the Middlebrooks’ gift, totaling $224,700.00 from an original $40,000.00 contribution 80 years ago. This year’s recipient is Acacia Erdley.

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Edna Mae Schmitt Scholarships Awarded

Citizens State Bank & Trust Company, Trustee for the Edna Mae Schmitt Scholarship, announced the 2025 awards recently. The scholarships are renewable for three additional years without reapplying. Edna Mae Schmitt created the trust to benefit graduates of USD #415 and USD #430 with preference to students residing in the old Powhattan School District. Recipients were selected by the committees from each school district, made up of the high school principal, president of the school boards, a teacher selected by those two members, and the mayor of the City of Powhattan. Since the inception of the Edna Mae Schmitt Scholarship in 2010, there has been $54,500.00 in the scholarships distributed.

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Red Hawk Boys Baseball Season ends

The Hiawatha Red Hawks traveled to Sabetha Friday night. They opened up play in the Class 3A Baseball Regional against the Nemaha Central Thunder. The Hiawatha Red Hawks lost by a score of 12-2. Other teams in attendance were Riverside, Royal Valley, Maur Hill-Mount Academy, Marysville, Sabetha and Atchison County. The Red Hawks carried a lead through the early innings. Junior Rhen Hageman kept it close through four innings with solid pitching. Hageman’s ability to mix up his throwing speeds with a solid curve ball, was very effective. The Red Hawks made a few errors in the field. The Nemaha Central Thunder were able to incorporate some timely hitting, which resulted in an unsuccessful combination for the Red Hawks. The Nemaha Central Thunder got the best of the Red Hawks over the seven innings.

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