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 State of Nebraska versus Vencil Ash trial with jury held its first full day of court on Tuesday. Vencil Ash is charged with the 2003 murder of Ryan Guitron. He was previously found guilty of the murder in July 2012. However, the Nebraska Supreme Court overturned the ruling in October 2013, stating that the defense did not have proper time to prepare for Ash’s wife, Kelly Meehan-Ash, to take the stand. The Supreme Court stated that Ash’s requests to postpone the trial in order to prepare a defense against the testimony should have been gra...
Miss Nebraska Megan Swanson said it was important for young people to pay attention to total body wellness in order to be the best they can be. Swanson told students at Mary Lynch Elementary that Friday afternoon during her stop in Kimball. She spoke to students at Kimball Junior/Senior High School on Friday morning. The 6-foot tall Swanson, who is the shortest member of her immediate family, was crowned Miss Nebraska last summer. She previously studied at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.,...
The City of Kimball Planning Commission received an update on the comprehensive housing study at its Jan. 19 meeting. Hanna:Keelan is the firm that is handling Kimball’s comprehensive plan, which includes a housing study. This extensive housing study includes a listing and rating of all the houses in Kimball. Currently, Kimball is lacking in houses for large families, which are houses that have three to four bedroom. The study pointed out that Kimball does have a large number of what some might consider “lock and leave” housing. This type...
Kimball County Commissioners were told a new ambulance was needed at their regularly scheduled meeting on Jan. 20. Ambulance Director Carla Goranson brought along Mike Schadegg of Schadegg Motors to help explain that the county ambulances are in need of repair and to be replaced. “One of them needs to be replaced for sure. Even though the one doesn’t have many miles on it, it has made up for that in all the time it has spent idling while on calls,” Schadegg said. Goranson confirmed that the ambulances spend a lot of time on scene idling in or...
The Kimball City Council received an update on the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska from City Administrator Daniel Ortiz at a short meeting held Jan. 20. “I will be attending a meeting for Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska, MEAN, this week so I fully anticipate giving an update to the Board of Public Works on the evening of the 27th. I will also be updating the council at your next meeting,” Ortiz said. MEAN is struggling with its financial plan. MEAN plans its prospective budget and has fallen short frequently. This is affecting many mun...
Mary (Sterle) Greb, 87, of Grand Island, died Saturday, Jan. 24, at Golden Living Center-Lakeview ACU, due to complications from Alzheimer's. Mary Louise (Sterle) Greb was born on June 19, 1927, in Bushnell, the daughter of Joseph and Rose (Klobuchar) Sterle. Mary grew up on a farm in Kimball County, graduating from Kimball County Hugh School in 1946, where she was an honor student and won many academic and athletic awards. Mary was united in marriage to Chauncey Coxbill Jr. on Sept. 29, 1946....
The Office of Academic Affairs at Black Hills State University has released the dean’s list for the fall 2014 semester. A total of 687 students maintained a grade point average of 3.5 or above while taking at least 12 credit hours to be named to the list this semester. Katelyn Woten of Potter was the lone local student named to the dean’s list. Founded in 1883, Black Hills State University is a master’s level university that promotes excellence in teaching and learning; supports research, creative and scholarly activities and provides servi...
The South Platte Natural Resources District board of directors began the year by welcoming a new member into its fold, while choosing Keith Rexroth to continue his role as chairman. Phil Grabowski of rural Sidney joined the board after being elected last November, replacing long-time board member Paul Hutchison, who retired at the end of his term last year. Grabowski is a farmer and rancher and will represent NRD Subdistrict 4, covering southwest Cheyenne county including a portion of southwest...
The unemployment rate for Kimball and Banner counties showed a slight increase in December, according to numbers released Friday by the Nebraska Department of Labor. In Kimball County, the December 2014 unemployment rate was 2.6 percent. That was a half a percentage rise from November’s revised rate of 2.1 percent. In real numbers, there were 50 unemployed people in Kimball in December, up from 41 in November. The unemployment rate for December 2013 was 3.4 percent. The unemployment rate in Banner County rose over a percentage point from the No...
The Kimball Speech team was at it again on Saturday and won yet another Class C/D championship at Gering. In addition to the team title, Kimball also brought home the runner-up trophy in the novice competition. Individually, first place finishes went to Leisha Casimiro in Novice Informative Speaking, Connor Moore in Novice Humorous Prose, and Christianne Clower in Novice Poetry. Kimball took home third place finishes by Ryan Soper in Novice Serious Prose, Nicholas Thomas-Lewis in Novice Poetry,...
Students in the preschool storytime group at the Kimball Public Library get a first-hand look at guinea pigs brought in by Robin Tjosvold, left, last Wednesday. Kale Dea, in red at right, is one of the students who looks on. The preschool storytime group is held each Wednesday during the school year from 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the library. It is free and any preschool-aged child is welcome to join....
Youngsters learned about static electricity at the Club Next program held last Tuesday. Club Next is held at the Kimball Public Library as a partnership between the library and the Kimball/Banner County UNL Extension office each Tuesday from 3:45-4:45 p.m. during the school year. It is held at the library and is for children in Kindergarten through the third grade. Older children, particularly siblings of those attending, may attend if they wish. It is free to attend each wee...
Four Kimball High School students, Soroya Estrada and her sister Estrella Estrada, Jessica Williams and Alecia Lee, did not want to leave school on the first day of winter break in December. They asked Mrs. Pat Sulu and the Spanish Club if they could create a mural or something to improve and brighten Kimball. That Saturday after school was out, they came back to school and worked all day to create a "door" that reflected the 1918 beauty of the Wheat Growers Hotel. They wrote a note to the...
Potter-Dix went up against rival Leyton for the third time this season in Saturday's Minuteman Activities Conference tournament championship game. And for the third time, the Lady Coyotes came out on top. The Lady Coyotes (12-2) brought home their first MAC tournament title in girls basketball since 2006 with a 40-32 victory against the Lady Warriors. Potter-Dix coach Jeff Einspahr said the win says a lot about his team in winning against their rival for the third time in three tries this...
The Kimball boys wound up 6th in the 8 school SPVA Conference Basketball Tournament losing 69-43 to Bridgeport in first round play as reported last week, and then falling 45-42 to Perkins County in losers bracket play on Saturday at North Platte. The Horns won over Perkins County at Kimball back in December by a score of 61-52, but this past weekend they were without the services of a couple of their regulars including senior starter Enrique Cajero who elected to make a college visit trip, and...
After winning 49-31 over Maxwell in first round play of the SPVA tournament as reported last week, the Kimball High girls suffered two defeats in play at the North Platte Community College, and ended up 4th in the 8 school bracket. The number two seeded Lady Longhorns lost to number three seed Chase County, a team they had defeated on the road just a couple of weeks back, 42-35, on Friday night with the ladies from Imperial winning out 52-41 to advance them into the championship game, while Kimb...
The Kimball Dead Eye Shooters 4-H Club has started its season off with a bang. Several members of the club have participated in competition held in Rushville and Mitchell. Youth participated in BB gun, Sporter Air Rifle and Precision Air Rifle events. “We are so proud of how well the kids are doing this year. They are really excited and we are looking forward to an outstanding season,” said Nicole Snyder, one of the club’s coaches and leaders. Not only are the kids participating in competitions on a local level but, in national level posta...
Senior Rowdy Keller and freshman Clay Keller brought home silver medals and runner-up top finishes from the Lingle-Ft. Laramie Dogger Invitational Wrestling Tournament this past weekend. The two-day affair that took place on Friday and Saturday involved 17 schools with Bayard winning the team title with 224 points beating out several Wyoming schools for bragging rights. Kimball wound up 13th with their limited squad numbers scoring 59 points. Rowdy Keller, wrestling at 120 pounds, won 4-2 over...
Garrett Grubbs finished fourth to lead Banner County at the Dogger Invitational held last Friday and Saturday. Grubbs topped Marshal Hill of Saratoga and Antonio Murillo of Gering to win his first two matches in the championship round. In the semifinals, he lost to Colt Lewis of Burns/Pine Bluffs. Grubbs moved on to the consolation round and won a semifinal match in that bracket, once again topping Hill. He lost in the third place match to Keenan Schmidt of Scottsbluff. Brandon Blickensderfer dropped his opening championship round match to...
Though the top prize had already escaped their grasps, the Leyton Warriors and Potter-Dix Coyotes still had a long-standing rivalry to settle. Though the Warriors couldn’t defend their MAC title of a year ago, they took the upper hand in their long-standing rivalry with the Coyotes with a 59-50 triumph in the boys’ consolation game Saturday at Sidney Middle School. The Coyotes (6-8) gave their rivals all they could handle throughout much of the contest before the Warriors (7-7) began to pull away in the second half. After 16 minutes of pla...