Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Two public hearing will be held on Feb. 7, 2023, at the next Kimball County Commissioners meeting. At 9:30 a.m., a public hearing is scheduled for comment on the adoption of Ordinance 2023-1 concerning Snow Emergency and Abandoned Vehicles on county roads. This appears to be a problem because when the interstate and state roads are shut down due to the weather conditions, then GPS will take travelers on the county roads, and those roads have not been cleared. Hence abandoned and stuck vehicles end up blocking the county roads, making them... Full story
Th Observer is presenting free, full version of all stories posted on its website Jan. 19 due to severe winter weather that closed roadways and delayed delivery of the Jan. 19 print edition. We hope you enjoy these stories, we appreciate all of you readers, and we thank you for understanding.... Full story
The Kimball County Commissioners on Tuesday approved an agreement between Kimball County and Kimball County Transit Service to lease six new transit vehicles. All six vehicles are 2022 Ford 350 EL vans, ranging in price from $190,991.52 to $205,225.92. The total lease payments will amount to $1,185,804 over a period of three years for the six 10-passenger transit vans. While KCTS will lease the vehicles from Kimball County, according to the projected income, the county will reap $343,422.61 over the period of three years. This would be the... Full story
Here we go again. Another midweek dose of severe winter weather was forecast for Kimball County and surrounding areas this week. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning and forecast on Tuesday that 6 to 9 inches of snow could hit the area. Some other forecasts called for more snow. The City of Kimball made changes Tuesday morning in anticipation of the storm, canceling its 5:30 p.m. Tuesday City Council meeting due to the forecast – and also a lack of quorum of council members available to attend the meeting. In p... Full story
Construction carries on as Kimball's new $43.5 million hospital continues to take shape, but this area's harsh winter weather may have slowed the development a bit. "The project has experienced about a week's delay due to the snowy conditions this winter," Kerry Ferguson, Kimball Health Services director of community and foundation, told the Observer on Monday. "Hopes are we can make up this time later in the project." Prior to the weather delay, hospital officials said construction remained on... Full story
Hello! Here we are smack dab in the middle of January. Man is time ever flying, sometimes in a winter mode and sometimes not so much. There has been more ice and my driveway is still blocked. More moisture would be great and to my way of thinking if the ice would melt we would have more moisture! As you know the Dinner Theater and One Act Play was cancelled due to bad weather in December. However, they performed for the entire school one day last week, and if you were able to attend you know... Full story
Marquis Reed Gilmore "Reed," age 89, died Saturday, December 31, 2022, in Omaha, Nebraska. The son of Willis Henderson Gilmore and Dorothy Reed Gilmore, Reed was born on August 6, 1933, in Fort Worth, Texas. His family moved to Penwell, Texas, where his father worked the West Texas oilfields before moving to Midland, Texas, where Reed was raised and attended Midland Public Schools. He graduated from Midland High School in 1951 and then attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he e... Full story
The injury bug has hit the Kimball Longhorn Wrestling team this week. Derek Kauffman's season was ended in the beginning of the week with another shoulder injury that will result in season ending shoulder surgery. He finished the year with a 10-8 record at 170. In the middle of the week, 106 pounder senior Matthew Johnson suffered a shoulder injury in practice that will sideline him for hopefully only a week or so. Peter Russell suffered a chest injury at the beginning of the season, and we... Full story
The Kimball Longhorns boys basketball team was 3-9 on the season but continuing to battle hard following Monday's 50-47 loss to Perkins County in a first round SPVA matchup. SPVA action continues this Thursday and Saturday at NPCC. Here's a look at the Horns' previous three games. Potter-Dix 64, Kimball 57 Visiting Potter-Dix jumped ahead 24-12 after a quarter, but Kimball came back to outscore the Coyotes 13-10 in the second quarter and 21-10 in the third and have a 46-44 lead going into the fo... Full story
This week's scheduled Kimball City Council meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 17, was canceled due to the snowstorm forecast and lack of a quorum of council members available to attend. From left at last month's reorganizational meeting are Councilmember Christy Warner, Mayor John Morrison and Councilmember Creg Pike.... Full story