{"id":590565,"date":"2026-04-17T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590565\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:25:12","slug":"mountain-lion-sighting-prompts-secure-status-at-grand-island-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590565\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion sighting prompts secure status at Grand Island elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) &#8211; Cedar Hollow Elementary was placed in secure status Friday after a mountain lion was spotted in a field next to the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Northwest Public Schools Superintendent Jeff Edwards confirmed the animal was seen Friday morning near the school, located on South Engleman Road and West Wildwood Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The school will keep people inside for the rest of the day as a precaution. Edwards said appropriate authorities have been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a message sent to parents, the principal said the safety of students and staff remains their top priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksnblocal4.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our KSNB Local4 daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KSNB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) &#8211; Cedar Hollow Elementary was placed in secure status Friday after a mountain lion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[257831,14921,257830,257829,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-590565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-cedar-hollow","9":"tag-elementary","10":"tag-jeff-edwards","11":"tag-moutain-lion","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}