The sun isn’t up at 5:40 a.m., but seniors Haeley Folk and Lauren Ginn are. Every day, the two North Platte High School cheer captains wake up early to lead their squad. Folk and Ginn are this year’s...

This was the first year the North Platte cheer team was allowed to hire a choreographer. The cheer team hired Alexis Gass, a UCA out of Lincoln to come down for a weekend. Senior Morgan Libsack said she...