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 Kimball School Board accepted the resignations of two employees, junior/senior high school Principal Mo Hanks and teacher Kathleen O'Brien, during a special board meeting at noon Monday, Jan. 27, in the district office at the school. The board accepted both resignations by 6-0 votes. Hanks submitted his letter of resignation, which will be effective at the end of the current school year. He gained his teaching and coaching experience in Hemingford, then came to Kimball to be the principal... Full story
The vacancy on the Kimball City Council will remain vacant for at least another month. After reviewing letters from people interested in the position, Mayor Keith Prunty requested that Kathy Porter be nominated and selected to fill the vacancy created when Christy Warner stepped down. An active and lengthy discussion over the matter took place at the Jan. 21 meeting, but the three remaining council members could not agree on filling the vacant position. According to the discussion, the mayor rec...
Mayor Keith Prunty reported at the Jan. 21 Kimball City Council meeting that only about 26 houses are for sale in the area – quite an improvement over times when the market had many more properties for sale. The market has been holding pretty steady in the Kimball area, according to one person familiar with local real estate trends. Many homes that have sold in recent months have gone to transplants from the Denver region taking advantage of this area’s low home prices, sales records show. Looking at the Multiple Listing Service, there are 29...
In today's edition, we celebrate the importance of agriculture with the release of the special farm and ranch section "Heartland." It is appropriately called Heartland as agriculture is the heart of the land and the rural communities. William Jennings Bryan once said, "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." That statement still rings true, and is...
A Kimball agricultural business has expanded with the purchase of a mobile grain cleaner truck from a Colorado operation. The local company, Golden Waves LLC of 600 S. Burg St., purchased the truck from Greenbank Inc., a wheat and seed mobile cleaning business out of Morgan, Colo. Golden Waves owners David Dudney and Kristy Cook acquired the truck after Greenbank owner Milton Greenback decided to retire. Cook said Golden Waves took the opportunity to continue the mobile cleaning business that Greenbank provided for more than 26 years for...
Well, here we go again. This is the final week of January 2020. Time just keeps on flying and I don't get it. I am not having that much fun. On top of that, it has felt more like spring and I would bet that winter is not even close to being over. I did buy some seed starter stuff the other day. So far it is just sitting there. I have an order ready for the seed catalog too. I feel the need for new beginnings, fresh starts. Maybe that is the way the New Year hits most people, and I am just a...
Restoration work carries on at the new Kimball County Transit Service building – a $1.16 million project at Chestnut and 3rd streets hoped to give downtown a needed pick-me-up once it opens this spring. Transit service administrator Christy Warner updated the county commissioners on the project at their Jan. 21 meeting. There’s lots going on at the former auto dealership. Warner said: • Floor demolotion for plumbing and the loading dock is done. The floor has been removed where drainage lines will run. Wet dirt under the north side near the was...
Brookside Farm is a half mile north of Kimball and sits on the banks of Lodgepole Creek. It's much more than a picture perfect setting. The farm, also known as the Gridley-Howe-Faden-Atkins Farmstead, was listed in 1997 on the National Register of Historic Places. The description on its registration form for that distinction states that "the property illustrates an historically typical farmstead evolution in Nebraska. The farmstead is a rare and well-preserved collection of buildings and...
"Hey, why don't you come to this sorting event with me? I think you will get a kick out of it," Frank Stauffer asked Trish Lukassen, who has since become his ranch sorting teammate. Although she had never watched the event, Trish didn't just show up. She took her horse and participated – and the rest is history. The Lukassen/Stauffer team from Kimball has been ranch sorting since 2015 together. "It took us a long time to learn to ride together right," Lukassen said. "We were so afraid we were g... Full story
Kimball's Greg McDaniel has been notified that he is being awarded a special award recognizing him as having the highest average rolled by an adult male in the nation for the 2018-19 season. Greg rolled an average of 253 over 145 games in the Kim Bowl Scratch Trio League. This past Sunday evening, the Kimball Mile High Bowling Association Board of Directors staged a surprise presentation to Greg prior to the start of the Sunday night bowling league complete with a special cake made in his honor...
I traveled to North Platte on Saturday to take in the final day of this year’s SPVA Conference Basketball Tournament held at the Mid Plains Community College site and got to witness both Kimball teams secure wins after dropping their first round games earlier in the week. It was a nice basketball atmosphere at the Mid Plains gym and a nice crowd from Kimball showed up to cheer the Longhorns to victory. Be sure and see the stories in this week’s sports. WyoBraska Basketball Also on Saturday, right here in Kimball, there was a lot of bas... Full story
Connor Cluff at 126 pounds was Kimball's top wrestler at the Chadron Invitational Tournament this past Saturday with a record of 4 wins and 1 loss, and finishing 4th in his class. Stephen Bateman at 285 placed 5th, going 2 and 2. Trey Schindler at 138 was 1 and 2, and Joseph Burris was 0-2. Cluff might have placed even higher but had an unfortunate situation, according to Coach Wade Brashear. "We had some up and downs at the Chadron Invite," the coach said. "Connor Cluff was our top placer and p...
After falling to Hershey in first round play of the SPVA Conference Tournament, as reported last week, the Kimball Lady Longhorns came up with a big win over Perkins County on Saturday at North Platte to take 5th place honors. In the 12 noon game at Mid Plains Community College to start the action Saturday, the Kimball girls won out over the Perkins County Plainswomen 41-36. Kimball jumped out to an early 10-0 lead and led 12-2 at the first quarter break, They ran their lead to 14-4 before the team from Grant went on an 8 point unanswered run...
The Kimball boys wound up 5th in SPVA Conference Tournament play after suffering a 49-29 first round loss at Hershey, and coming back to win 55-43 over Sutherland in Saturday consolation play at Mid Plains Community College in North Platte. HERSHEY 49, KIMBALL 29 The Longhorns had their worst offensive showing of the season in scoring only 29 points in their loss to Hershey. Coach Mo Hanks said "We had a good defensive showing but couldn't shoot the basketball". In an earlier contest with the...