Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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The spring sports schedule is in full swing and the Kimball High golf team finally got some action. They were at the Mitchell Tournament this past Tuesday and because of our early deadline for printing, we will have the story on this action in next week’s sports, along with the results of the Bridgeport Tournament being held today, April 13. This is a 9 a.m. start time if you want to take in the action. Next Tuesday, April 18, they will be at the Morrill Tournament with another 9 a.m. start time. Track action today, Thursday, April 13, with M...
A dramatic representation of a two-vehicle accident was staged for the students of Kimball High School on Tuesday, April 4. "Every 15 Minutes Program," is a national program used to dramatically instill in students the potentially dangerous consequences of impaired and distracted driving. Just prior to witnessing the dramatized accident, students at Kimball High School heard a multimedia presentation by a former Nebraska State Trooper. Following the mock accident, students were debriefed by...
Terry Galloway, an auditor from Almquist, Maltzahn, Galloway and Luth, CPA, presented an unmodified report to the Kimball City Council at the March 21 council meeting. “What you have received here is an unmodified report,” Galloway said. “Which is the highest level of assurance you can receive from an independent audit firm, so congratulations. Basically it means everything is true and accurate within the financial statements, themselves.” According to Galloway’s report, the City decreased overall debt by $192,000, or by six percent, and the b...
Current Kimball County Zoning regulation section 5.02 states that an asphalt or concrete batch plant and borrow pits used temporarily and exclusively for the completion of a public road improvement project is allowed in A1 and A2 agriculture zoning districts and in section 5.03 borrow pits are listed as a conditional use with the approval of a permit. However, when the Planning Commission began working on zoning regulations for Kimball County, landowners were told that if their property was used in a certain manner, it would be...
As the school year nears an end, Kimball Public Schools has begun accepting resignations for the coming year. At the March 13 Kimball Board of Education meeting two such resignations were accepted, that of Jordan Sukup, pre-Kindergarten, and kindergarten teacher Nora Robinson, with more to follow, according to school superintendent Marshall Lewis. However, two current teachers have been approved for new contracts in existing positions. Kim Beyer, the current art, publication and career teacher at Kimball High School, was approved through an...
The Panhandle was represented well at the 2017 Nebraska Rural Community School Association (NRCSA) Spring conference this last month as three area school districts, from nearly 200, received recognition. NRCSA represents more than 75,000 students across 195 different schools, 88 counties, and 24 legislative districts. Their purpose is to promote the general advancement of public education in rural communities and to provide recognition to quality rural education programs. Kimball Public Schools...
The Kimball boys finished second and the girls ninth, leaving them in third place at Monday's Tri-State Track Invite held at Creek Valley High School in Chappell. Bridgeport won the boy's division with 144 points with Kimball runner-up with 99. Hyannis won the female division with 115 points, edging out Bridgeport with 108 and Kimball finished ninth in the 13 school listing with 24. In the combined team scores it was Bridgeport the winner with 252 points, Hyannis runner-up with 146 and Kimball...
The Kimball High boy’s golf team opened the season this past Thursday, competing in the Gering Quad, nine hole tournament. This tournament wasn’t on the regular schedule but Kimball Activities Director Ken Smith saw it as an opportunity to give the Kimball team one more chance to get some competition. Gering hosted Scottsbluff, Kimball and Mitchell for the late afternoon nine hole play that allowed each school to play as many golfers as they wanted with the low four scores from each team used to decide the team scores. Gering won out with 172 f...
Despite the cold weather, Kimball High got a golf tournament and a track meet in this past week. The golfers played in a four-school Quad Tourney at Gering with just a nine hole format and despite not having their number one golfer, Jordan Greenwood, and despite just having four golfers while the larger schools played seven and eight, they were just 3 strokes from winning it all. Jordan was on a family vacation in Nevada but he wasn’t skipping out on practice as he played five top courses in five days with Dad Kenny. Coach Chad Wise saw his n...
Senator Steve Erdman, District 47, hosted a town hall meeting on Friday, March 24 at the Kimball Public Library with more than a dozen in attendance. Erdman answered questions from the public on issues such as funding for education and property tax, and he spoke about serving on the Committee on Committees – who decides which committees others serve on. "I was fortunate enough to be elected to the Committee on Committees, it is very seldom that a freshman senator coming off the street gets to s...
The Kimball County Commissioners approved a contract for a Deputy County Attorney at the March 21 Board of Commissioners meeting. The contract was given to the firm of Ellison, Kovarik & Turman, instead of just one attorney. It will be up to this firm to assist County Attorney Dave Wilson in prosecuting Kimball County cases. Terms of this contract, which is to begin on April 1, include an agreement to prosecute approximately 20 percent of all Kimball County misdemeanor criminal offenses, not including appellate work at a base salary of...
With the Kimball Event Center energy audit complete, the Kimball City Council heard a presentation by Bob Mead, Nebraska Municipal Power Pool, at the March 21 council meeting which highlighted several concerns. According to Mead, who was accompanied by City of Kimball Electric Department Director Bill Hinton on a facility walk-through, some errors were fixed immediately. “The ice machine and the cooler were being underused,” Mead said. Another issue that was previously corrected included a heating unit and cooling unit set up in such a way tha...
During the most recent Kimball Board of Education meeting the board updated the standards by which all school leaders are evaluated. Board members chose to evaluate administrators in the district by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC), a set of recently developed standards that, according to the ISLLC website, are meant to help strengthen preparation programs in school leadership. “This is the basis for future administrative evaluations,” Superintendent Marshall Lewis. “Recently we have felt the need to improve all of ou...
Services in Kimball are expanding for some of the community's "most vulnerable," according to Rose Bowcut – Executive Director Cheyenne County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate). CASA, a non-profit organization is branching out into Kimball County and with two Kimball County volunteers already on board, as well as several key cross-over components, Bowcut said the decision to extend these services locally was an easy one to make. "We are lucky. In Sidney we have the same judge, Judge R...
Once a man could travel hundreds, even thousands of miles, find a piece of land suitable (or not) to his needs, lay claim and call it his. Those days are long gone. But in the more recent past, a person (because by this time a woman could own land) could do what they deemed appropriate with their private property. Those days too, are long gone. There are few areas that go unregulated by various agencies in all levels of government, and that list grows smaller each day. Now, we have committees regulating how we use our personal property. In...
The Kimball High track team opened the outdoor season this past Saturday at their own Kimball Invitational and had seven wins on the day with four in the boy's division and three in the girl's division. Pine Bluffs was a double winner in the team standings, taking the girl's division with 164 points with Potter-Dix runner-up with 99, followed by Hemingford with 68, Kimball 63, Minatare 37 and Banner County 35. In the boy's division it was Pine Bluffs with 158, Hemingford 108, Kimball 95,...
Two new meet records were established Saturday at the Kimball Invitational Track and Field meet and Potter-Dix senior Alexus Rozelle put her name on both of them. The talented young lady who has signed to play volleyball at McCook Community College next fall, twirled the discus 123 feet to improve the previous record held by 11 feet as the old record of 112 feet was set by Laura Gross of Pine Bluffs in 2012. Jaden Ragsdale of Pine Bluffs saw her record in the shot put also go by the wayside as...
The Banner County High track team showed they have good potential in the distance events on the track along with the weight events in the girl's division, as this is where they scored most of their points in the Kimball Invitational on Saturday. The Banner County boys finished fifth in the team standings with 32 points and the girls wound up sixth with 35 points. MaKenna Dahlgrin returns as one of the better weight performers in Western Nebraska and had a good day Saturday finishing runner-up...
The outdoor track and field season got underway for our immediate area tracksters this past Saturday at the Kimball Invitational. Kimball Activities Director, Ken Smith, waved his magic Baton and gave athletes, fans and officials a wonderful day, weather-wise! The Kimball facilities are in outstanding condition and very attractive. If you haven’t been up to the school lately, you need to give it a look-see. A tip of the hat to Mr. Smith and everyone who helped with the meet on Saturday. A tip of the hat also to Alexus Rozelle of Potter-Dix f...
Just what is a borrow pit and how should it be used? The Kimball County Planning Commission has raised that question, and attempted to define it and regulate its use for the benefit of county residents. During a special meeting on Monday, March 20, with the Kimball County Board of Commissioners, following a planning commission recommendation to change verbiage to Kimball County zoning regulations, planning commission members said they each previously had their own definition. Additionally, they are tasked with regulating the use of gravel from...
The Kimball High School speech team competed in the district speech competition last week in North Platte and is sending 10 of 11 students to Kearney, today, Thursday, March 23 for the state competition in seven events. Nicholas Thomas-Lewis and Desyree Nelson competed in Persuasive speaking at the district meet where Thomas-Lewis earned first place and qualified for the state meet. Just one student, Tristen Cook, performed in the Informative Speaking event. Cook placed second at districts and...
The Kimball High School was placed on lockdown on Wednesday, March 15, during a routine search of student lockers and vehicles. Students were held in classrooms to prevent interaction with the canines during the search, according to Kimball Superintendent of Schools, Marshall Lewis. “This particular event was planned as a preventative action,” Lewis said. “Law enforcement interaction is a regular part of the community collaboration in which Kimball Public Schools engages.” Though the event, a cooperative effort between the Nebraska State P...
Kimball High School opened up the track season at the Chadron State College Indoor meet this past Saturday and had some very respective marks in their first outing according to coach Gene Mohr. "We took eleven kids to Chadron and for no more practice than we have had, I was very pleased with how our kids performed," Mohr said. The highlight of the meet for Kimball was a win by Hannah Biesecker in the girl's long jump as she took home the gold medal with her winning leap of 15'11". Considering...
I am sure by now you readers all know that the South Dakota State UniversityJackrabbits lost to number one seed Gonzaga 66-46 to end their season. Our Mike Daum didn't have his best game, but still ended up scoring 17 points against a team that is in the running to win it all. He did a good job against their 7'1" big guy in closing out an awesome season in just his sophomore year of Division One basketball! ------------------------------- We gave you the Western Trails All Conference Basketball...
Coach Gene Mohr has high hopes for his Kimball High track team this spring with 29 boys and 15 girls checked out. The boy's sophomore class has the largest representation with 13 young men on the roster, followed by six juniors, five freshmen and five seniors. The girl's division lists five freshmen, four sophomores, three juniors and three seniors. Looking first at the boys, coach Mohr has a returning state champion in senior Jaden Withrow who won the Class C triple jump last year with a...