Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Kimball City Council has another year to decide how best to use the funds received through the Civic and Community Center Financing Fund. On Tuesday, May 16, Kimball City Council authorized Mayor Keith Prunty to sign an amendment to the contract that was granted by the State of Nebraska Department of Economic Development in 2014. The grant is to be used for “the renovation and/or expansion to existing civic, community, and recreation centers, which may include the conversion, rehabilitation, or reuse of historic buildings. The fund may also b...
Free 3D printer classes hosted at the Kimball Public Library for children this summer and adults this fall. The Flash Fordge Creator Pro Dual Color 3D printer got put to hard work this last fall when Shari Lindgren's class all created a project to be printed. The project was first sent to the computer to then send a code to print the project out. Thats when these students ideas came to life. For those who want to create a project of your own to be printed, anyone is able to use,...
The Kimball High School will soon receive a facelift, in the form of new windows that will be installed in eight east and west classrooms this summer. Superintendent of Kimball Schools, Marshall Lewis, discussed the capital improvement project with the Kimball Board of Education at their regular meeting on Thursday, May 11. Two companies were considered for the project, Simonton Windows and Pella. Simonton was chosen as the more cost effective solution. The Kimball High School Ag shop also has Simonton Windows that were installed a few years...
Kimball County residents are now able to get discount prescriptions, medical, vision and dental services through the Live Healthy: U.S. Counties Program. The program, offered through the National Association of Counties (NACo), is free to residents of NACo member counties such as Kimball, and everyone is accepted. Live Healthy has been offered to NACo member counties since 2004, and though Kimball became a member county earlier this year, the local program is not yet fully operational, according to Andrew Goldschmidt, NACo Director of Membershi...
The Kimball Public Library and the Friends of the Kimball Public Library, with funding from the Grace L. Olsen Memorial, are pleased to bring the Portable Planetarium to Kimball youth. “This is really neat and something that Grace would have approved,” Liesch said. The planetarium, called the Edgerton Explorit Center, comes to Kimball from the Edgerton Center in Aurora on Wednesday, May 31 with several 30-minute showings available. For youth enrolled in the KPL summer reading program, available viewing times are at 11 a.m., 11:45, 1 p.m. and 1:...
Kimball will be sending three athletes to the 2017 Nebraska State Track and Field Championships this weekend at Omaha Burke Stadium, and the honored trip consists of senior Jaden Withrow in the triple jump, junior Hannah Biesecker in the long jump and sophomore Brady Kilgore in the 110 meter high hurdles. This will be the fourth trip to Omaha for Withrow who won his pet event once again at the C-11 District held at Mitchell this past Friday, and it is the third time he has emerged as the...
The Kimball Boy's golf team captured the team title in winning the SPVA Conference championship in their latest conquest of an undefeated season to date. The Longhorns shot a solid round of 308 for the win with Perkins County runnerup with 324, followed by St. Pats with 330, Sutherland 379 and Hershey 386. The conference tournament was held on the Sutherland golf course. The Horns also took the top two individual spots as well with Jordan Greenwood winning out over teammate, Zane Anthony, in a...
An exciting week of local sports with Kimball qualifying 3 individuals for this week’s State Track Meet and with the Kimball high boy’s golf team winning the SPVA Conference Tournament and keeping their undefeated season alive. The Horns were off to District Golf at Cambridge this past Tuesday hoping for a repeat win in their defense of last year’s District championship. We will know the results of that tournament late Tuesday but too late for our print deadline. ---------------------------- A very enjoyable day at the District track meet...
Significant utility savings were reported since the City of Kimball had an energy audit preformed at the Kimball Event Center, according to the City of Kimball’s Project Coordinator Amy Sapp during her report to the Kimball Board of Public Works on Tuesday, May 2. Sapp, along with City Council member Christy Warner, also reported on the past events held at the venue as well as events planned in the near future. As the city continues to operate the local event center small improvements continue to be made, but the eventual hope remains that t...
Kimball Public Schools will be welcoming another new educator in the coming school year fooling their regular meeting on April, 27, 2017. Jarrod Williams will begin classes in the 2017-18 school year as the new Computer and Business Technology teacher at both Mary Lynch Elementary, as well as the High School. Williams was hired to replace Shari Lindgren, who will be retiring following the completion of the current school year. Board members also approved a trip to Orlando, Fla., for the music department. The trip, set for May and June in 2018...
Police Chief Andy Bremer would like to remind citizens that large items cannot be put into or next to dumpsters in the alleys of Kimball. Large unwanted items must be hauled to the Kimball Landfill. Many items are accepted at the local landfill free of charge to residents that already pay landfill fees through utility bills. For more information about what is taken at the landfill at no additional cost, please call the City of Kimball at 308-235-3639....
Though a mother of two young men, one Kimball mom is known at Kimball High School as a second mom by many. Kim Adrian, mom to Nolan, who is graduating college at Chadron State and Kaden, a junior at Kimball High, has made herself known by attending nearly every home game, even when her own children are not participating. Not only does she watch the games, she gets involved – cheering, standing, clapping, and so much more. Throughout the speech season Kim made an effort to watch everyone at t...
A motion was made, and ultimately approved, to add Grandfather Rights in section 4.02 of the Kimball County Planning and Zoning regulations and to add non-conforming uses to Section 25.01 at the recent Kimball County Board of Commissioner’s meeting. “We have new amendments that were adopted by the County Commissioners by resolution for County Zoning regulations,” said Kimball County Zoning Administrator Sheila Newell. Further changes were adopted for the following seven amendments: Section 4.02 Definitions: add borrow pit and excavation and a...
Homestead Exemption applications are due by June 30, 2017 according to Kimball County Assessor Sherry Winstrom. For some the Homestead Exemption program may provide relief from property taxes by exempting a portion or all of the value of the home from taxation. With the base being, one home, one shed, one garage and one acre of land. There is certain criteria that needs to be met, according to the State of Nebraska Revenue website. -Persons over 65 years of age or; -Veterans totally disabled by a non service-connected accident or illness or;...
The Kimball High boy's golf team took care of business on their home course this past week and racked up two more wins while taking top honors in both the Western Trails Conference Tournament, as well as the Kimball Invitational, in a dual scored event. The Longhorns shot the low score of the day in both formats with their round of 329. Looking first at the Western Trails Conference bracket, Mitchell finished second with 367, followed by Bridgeport with 373, Gordon-Rushville 380 and Hemingford...
The KImball girls and boys both finished in sixth place at last week's SPVA Conference Track meet with the Longhorn boys scoring 38 points and the girls 37. Jaden Withrow was an individual winner winning the triple jump at 41'8" and finishing second in the long jump at 20'7". A good day for senior sprinter Kyle Spicer as he ran second in both the 100 meters and 200 meters with respective times of 11.65 and 23.74. Kaden Kaden Adrian ran eighth in the 800 with a time of 2:12.72. The 4x800 relay...
A full house for the 2017 KImball High Booster Club Awards NIght and Banquet this past week. After a welcome from MC Jeri Ferguson, and a prayer as well, the students were given the go-ahead to attack the food tables including the brisket sandwich meat prepared by Dave Klinkhammer. The parents and other adults then followed. Starting with the freshman class the letter winners came front and center to receive their individual packets of awards, ninth through 12th grades. Special awards were then...
The spring sports season is winding down, and in fact, this school year is almost over. District Track for the Kimball High tracksters is Today, Thursday, at Mitchell with a 10 a.m. start time that could possibly vary with weather conditions. The top two individuals in each event, and the winning relay teams, will all qualify for the state meet in Omaha coming up May 19-20 at Burke Stadium. There are some automatic qualifying marks as well and also some additional fastest time qualifiers from all districts. District golf is Tuesday, May 16, at...
Late in the afternoon on Monday, May 8, Kimball High School Counselor Chauncey Pedersen announced that, after weeks of evaluation by Kimball High School administration, Audrey Day and Taylor Muldoon were named co-valedictorians, with no salutatorian for 2017. Early Tuesday morning, May 9, Pedersen called with the news that last minute grades made all the difference for 2017 graduate Hollie Clark. With the addition of those last minute grades, and just five days until graduation, Hollie was...
As seniors at Potter-Dix High School prepare for the 2017 commencement ceremony, one in particular is preparing for her last role as a student leader. Payton Franklin, Potter-Dix Valedictorian, began her high school career her freshman year on the speech team but the following year she chose One Act plays instead and that same year she was inducted into the National Honor Society. The following year she was named a member of the National Society of High School Scholars all while continuing...
As she leads the 2017 graduating class of Banner County High School, valedictorian Savannah Jordan looks back at the formative junior high years, the friends she will miss and all the support she has received from her teachers While most remember their junior high years, Savannah recalls hers fondly, in fact, those years include some of her favorite memories. "I know that is odd, because that is usually the worst two years of people's lives, however, I had my two best friends, Heidi and Jacque,...
Though University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension internships are generally provided for upperclassmen, a recent Kimball graduate will begin her first internship this summer, after just completing her freshman year. During her 2016 annual report to the Kimball County Board of Commissioners, UNL Extension educator Karen DeBoer said that since last fall, Extension Agent Aaron Berger has been serving a state-wide role as an educator in the cattle industry and has relocated to the High Plains Ag lab for the majority of the week to better serve in...
Recreation was high on the list for the Kimball City Council at their regular meeting on Tuesday, April 18. Council heard one local company’s offer to build at Janicek Dam before hearing a request to limit access to Gotte Park. “We would like to build a remote control course (at Janicek Dam),” said Jerry Deines, manager of Z&S Construction. “It would keep kids off the street with them (remote control cars) and it would be in a safe spot.” Deines said the company wished to complete the project at no cost to the City of Kimball. Z&S would do...
Although she and her husband moved to the Kimball area from Minnesota in 2012, Tami Briscoe-Rutt may not yet be familiar to many. They had been looking for a ranch since 2004 and while their search began in New Mexico, they found their home on the western Nebraska range and they now run a cow/calf operation south of Kimball and they raise chickens as well. Briscoe-Rutt has a diverse background centered on customer service and she is excited to begin her duties in Kimball as the new Community Ser...
After several weeks of searching, the Western Nebraska Observer staff is full once again. Our previous advertising representative, Stefanie Bartels, took a position with the local post office. We are thrilled for Stef, and though we miss her dearly, we are excited for the changes in our office. Our own Aleta Pearson took the marketing specialist position, and she is doing great. Aleta has many years of design experience and it shows. We encourage all of our readers and advertisers to contact Aleta for any advertising and marketing needs. Since...