Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Debate over a nuisance abatement property at 4152 E. Front Street turned slightly aggressive at the City Council meeting the night of January 15th. Kimball Chief of Police Mark Simpson reported his findings to the council which last discussed the property July 18, 2012. “In my opinion, very little has been done in this property. You instructed these folks to stay in contact with me and tell me what they’re progress is. There has been no movement in that property whatsoever,” Simpson said. Sallie Behnke, one of the residents of the prope...
Kimball Police Chief Simpson addressed the Board of Education about a proposal of a School Resource Officer for Kimball Public Schools at their meeting January 14. “What a School Resource Officer does for you is that it brings an officer to the school. We dress in regular clothes. We get to know the kids, and we get to know their situations,” Simpson said. According to Simpson, the job of a School Resource Officer is to serve as a support to students when they struggle with issues that may leave them feeling backed into a corner on their own...
Economic Development Director Larissa Binod gave a brief update on the rail spur project to the Community Development Agency at their meeting January 15. “I have worked with our new engineering firm CRS and a representative from Union Pacific on a new site plan. Those preliminary engineering plans are all ready to be submitted to Union Pacific Railroad’s system, but there are still a few things we need to decide internally,” Binod said. According to Binod, part of the new plan is increasing the size of the site of the industry park from 67 ac...
Maria Murnahan was sentenced to three years probation for one count of burglary, a class 3 felony, by Judge Derek C. Weimer Thursday, January 10. Murnahan’s attorney, Audrey Elliott, cited to Judge Weimer that Murnahan had had no other contact with law enforcement since the incident that took place May 16 and that she believed her client was a fit candidate for probation. According to Elliott, the crime occurred because of money concerns that Murnanhan had at the time, stating that it was purely an issue of taking money at the time with no v...
Some label Chuck Hagel unfit for the role of defense secretary. They express concern over his stance on Israel or call him soft on the use of force. Others refer to a distant remark seen as insensitive to homosexuals. Certainly he has raised eyebrows with comments such as “the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here,” the “up here” referring to Washington’s Capitol Hill. And although he cast his vote in favor of the Iraq war in 2002, he pulled his support as the conflict wore on and the initial cause—weapons of mass destruction—turned...
Over the past week I spent several otherwise valuable hours watching “Playmakers” for the sixth or seventh time. For those unfamiliar, ESPN put out “Playmakers” as a mini-series—or, rather, a soap opera for men—back in 2004. It explored life in a fictional NFL team, including references to steroids, cocaine, in-fighting and homosexuality. In response, the league threatened to pull football highlights if the series continued on to a second season. ESPN caved in, cancelling out one of the best dramas seen on television. Freedom is not free, w...
I wrote a letter to the editor a few weeks back. If you remember, I had asked what had been accomplished by our Economic Development Director. As if by magic, there appears the suggestion by her that there is “new life” for the rail spur project. I thought that old stinking corpse was dead and buried. Friends, that project should have been started a few years ago. With inflation, labor costs and material costs exploding, this thing is not even feasible now. Add about 25-30 percent to the original estimate to complete this work and you’ll under...
Traffic: TR13-8 Wrustler Frye, Harrisburg, NE. No DL TR13-9 Trixie Cable, Kimball, NE. No operator’s license TR13-10 Lester Dewitt, Gering, NE. Speeding TR13-11 Angel Hernandez, Show Low, AZ. Speeding, no proof of registration TR13-12 Christopher Sleren, Kimball, NE. No operator’s license TR13-13 Raymond Flores, Jr., Victoria, TX. Violate stop or yield sign. TR13-14 John Fox, Cheyenne, WY. Improper stopping or parking TR13-15 Salvador Salas, Rawlins, WY. Speeding TR13-16 David Hazlett, Ft. Morgan, CO. Speeding TR13-17 Stevon Knutson, Florrissan...
This is one Sheriff’s open opinion and want it to be known to the people of my county. I’m sure most sheriffs feel the same way as I do. I am adamantly opposed to any thing that infringes on our Constitutional rights; gun control is one that’s a burr under my saddle. What happened in Sandy Hook and the theater in Colorado are tragic and I feel for those families deeply. I hate it when people suffer and die no matter the cause. It should be realized, it was the deranged people who killed those innocent people not the gun. Just as in 9/11 and t...
Greetings to all in Banner County, friends near and far. My wish for us all is a little more moisture, not quite such freezing temperatures. The snow with blowing winds caused an earlier school closure last Friday in at least two schools, including Banner County and several sports activity postponements. It has slowly but surely been getting warmer all week long. I must confess, I have not looked into the weather forecast at all. The boys varsity basketball MAC tournament semifinals should begin today, and for more information please call the...
The Firemen’s Meeting is Thursday, January 17. The village board meeting will be held on Thursday, January 17 instead of January 10. Family Night is Saturday, January 19. Join your neighbors in the community center for a potluck supper. The Bushnell Day meeting originally scheduled for Saturday, January 19 has been cancelled – we will meet again in February. The Bushnell Lions Club has calendars for sale at the Sisters Grimm. Stop by and pick one up for only $5. For the rest of the month the bookstore will be open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fri...
This past week has been one of unseasonably mild weather. With temperatures having been in the above average range of upper thirties and lower forties, our light jacket days came to an abrupt halt this past Friday when a well-predicted cold front barreled through the panhandle. Heavy, moisture-laden fog drew a grey curtain over the early morning sunrise and settled in a frozen layer of slick mist on every exposed surface. As crystal flakes began to fall, a gusty northwest wind whipped the flurry of snow into a brief, but threatening blizzard....
The library display cases contain a collection of ‘topsy-turvy’ dolls or two-headed cloth dolls. Most of the collection is variations of Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma and the wolf in various sizes and colors. The other dolls include Oriental, Jamaican, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and the Wizard of Oz characters. Thinking about buying a new or used car? The library has 2013 (and past years) Fuel Economy Guides. The High Point ShutterBug Photography Club met and set some dates for the year. Coming in February is the first photo con...
The Nebraska FFA Foundation, along with corporate sponsors and county Farm Bureaus, are working together to provide extra incentives to raise funds for local FFA chapters. This year, $20,000 in matching funds will be distributed to chapters, proportionate to the percentage of dollars raised. The funds will be used for innovative classroom projects, leadership training, community service events and educational trips by the Kimball and Banner County FFA chapters. This year families, friends and businesses are invited to participate in donating...
The family of Laura Nelson wishes to express their deep appreciation to the community for the outpouring of support given through cards of sympathy, in heartfelt letters and with the generous contributions to Mom’s memorial. These donations to the NSEA Children’s Fund will help a local child. Mom would be pleased to be continuing to promote education, which was always so important to her. We’d also like to thank the ladies of Prairie West Christian Church for preparing and serving the food at the family luncheon following the funeral. We will...
Farm Service Agency (FSA) Kimball County Office announced that family farmers in seven counties in Nebraska are eligible to apply for low interest Farm Service Agency (FSA) Emergency (EM) loans due to physical and production losses caused by drought that occurred on November 1, 2012 and continuing. Those seven counties are: Kimball, Cheyenne, Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Keith and Perkins These seven Nebraska counties became eligible for this assistance because they are contiguous to the 30 Colorado counties that were designated on January 9 by the...
Kimball’s Ag Sales team took first and the Floral Design team finished second at the January 9 Career Development Events competition held in Scottsbluff. The Ag Sales team consisted of Brian Evertson, Colton Snyder, Tessa Shaw and Jessica Fossand. Kayla Lukassen, Kayla Schonemann, Dalton Luppen, Dakota Randles,and Arica McCloud made up the Floral Design team. Kimball FFA students also participated in Livestock Management and Welding. The chapter had several individual high performances. As t...
Former Kimballite, Rochael Soper recently published “Out of Hell and Into Healing”, a book written from personal experience of the struggles that often accompany growing up with an alcoholic parent--and painfully witnessing the abuse of others in the family. She began writing the book in 2003 as a way of trying to heal from her past. “Is there anything more frightening to a child, than seeing a parent suffer humiliation and violence at the hands of another parent?” she asks in one passage...
The newly founded Oral History Committee of Kimball is looking to revive the discontinued Prairie Rhythms Oral History Project that was started in the early 1990s under the new name of the Prairie Tales Oral History Project. “Several people were talking about getting this going again, and the Visitor’s Committee wants to do some of these things for tours. So amongst all the people, we decided to try to get it going again,” Jan Sears, Director of the Kimball Public Library, said. The committee consists of different members from various group...
Congratulations to Kimball High School’s December Student of the Month, Colton Snyder. Snyder is very active in school as well as in his community. FFA has been an important part of his high school career. He has competed in district and state events including Range Judging, Ag Sales and Parliamentary Procedure. He received the Star Chapter Farmer award and is currently serving as Chapter Treasure. Snyder was a member of STAND, where he has served as Parliamentarian and President. He is in b...
The Kimball County Board Commissioners approved a request by Kimball County Ambulance Director Carla Goranson to join the National Emergency Medical Services Association (NEMSA). The request came from a need for coverage by EMTs as they work in the field, and a policy that would cover them if they should get injured, according to Goranson. “The main thing that I like is the insurance policy which covers accidental death, accidental dismemberment. Should we be injured while working as an EMT, we would have a $10,000 insurance policy for each m...