Week of January 16, 2025
Week of January 16, 2025
People from Kimball and surrounding areas showed up in droves for breakfast and the silent auction benefiting Brigsley Hinton and her parents, Trevan and Hope. Nine-month old Brigsley and her parents are forced to repeatedly travel to Denver for treatment of a low grade brain tumor at Children's Hospital. Brigsley was diagnosed at four months and has been receiving chemotherapy in the hopes of reducing the tumor. Unfortunately, the tumor has not shown signs of reduction and a new type of chemo...
The process to rejuvenate the wastewater treatment plant continues to move forward as the Kimball City Council approved Resolution #01-2025. The council approved this resolution to file an application with USDA Rural Development for a 40 year loan in the amount of $5,863,000 to finance the wastewater treatment plant improvements. The $5,863,000 includes the improvement project, legal fees, the central beltway interceptor, and interceptor-contingencies and inflation. Wastewater expert Doug...
Landon Smith and Taylor Brown, new Kimball School Board members, take their oaths of office on Monday at the January board meeting. See story, Page...
The installation of three board members was the first order of business at the 2025 Kimball School Board meeting. Britni Toth, Landon Smith, and Taylor Brown took their oath of office, and then the board got down to doing the business of the school district. During the reorganization, Travis Cook was once again elected as the board president, with Jennifer Griebel as vice-president, Tom O’Brien as secretary, and Britni Toth, treasurer. Superintendent Trevor Anderson noted two significant bills when the board bills were discussed. Anderson...
The first Kimball County Commissioner meeting of 2025 was held on Thursday, January 9 at 9:00 a.m. David Hottell was sworn in as Kimball County Commissioner, replacing Carl Stander for the four-year term. The regular commissioner meeting followed the swearing-in, with many items tabled due to Elyse Lukassen's absence. While commissioner appointments to various boards and committees were tabled, Rich Flores was elected Board Chairman, and Elyse Lukassen was voted vice-chairman. The appointments...
SPVA Conference Tournment arrives next week for Kimball's boys and girls basketball teams. Coach Trevor Anderson's No. 3 seeded boys open at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, vs. visiting fourth seed Bridgeport. The top seed is Perkins County, which will host Hershey. The No. 6 seeded Kimball girls, meanwhile, will play 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, at top seed Bridgeport. In pre-SPVA action, Longhorns basketball hosted Potter-Dix on Tuesday this week, will travel to...
The Potter-Dix Coyote Boy’s Basketball team is another team in the panhandle that should have a better record this far in the season. Loaded with talent like junior Landon Gasseling and junior Dylan Tabor, this is a team that just needs to get settled and play together better. They have the athletes and the coaching is there, it just seems that a combination of bad luck, bad timing on their schedule, and a few losses that could and should have been wins, have kept the Coyotes from being where they should be. The last two games are typical...
The Kimball Longhorns Boys Basketball team went 2-1 this week as they dominated South Platte, had a hard fought victory over Haxtun, and lost a tough game on Saturday at Chase County. The team is 8-2 heading into another busy week with Potter-Dix at home on Tuesday, a road game Friday at Bridgeport and back home Saturday vs. Prairie. Against South Platte, the Longhorns jumped out to a commanding 42-21 halftime lead and put the game well out of reach with a 34 point 3rd quarter to get the clock running. The team forced South Platte into 35...
Here are the Banner County coaches and up-and-coming young grapplers who competed at the Bridgeport Wrestling Tournmament on Sunday. From left are coach Kyle Boettcher, Kort Boettcher, Boone Dittbenner, Trace Olsen, Quincy Boettcher, Breklyn Cross, Jaxson Loutzenhiser, Camden Knaub, Brogan Cross and coach Ryan...
Good morning friends near and far! Here is hoping you are handling this frigid weather well. Things are still happening a little bit on the slow side and that seems to be a good idea, more of a reason to stay inside and stay warm. Today is January 16th and as such we are halfway through the month. The Wild Cat Hills preschool program is scheduled for today at 10 a.m. and will last about an hour. Tomorrow there will be varsity basketball games here at home vs. South Platte. The girls will play at 5:30 p.m. and the boys will play at 7 p.m....
