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Articles from the February 28, 2013 edition


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  • City Backs School's Accelerated Reading Program With Grant

    Daniel Thompson, Reporter|Feb 28, 2013

    The City Council awarded a $1,500 grant to the Accelerated Reader Program at the Kimball Junior-Senior High School at their February 19 meeting. The Accelerated Reader Program focuses on increasing literacy among students, assisting teachers with their curriculum, and contributing to students’ joy of reading. The program is overseen by 7th and 8th grade teacher Lani Heeg. “You take books from the library and books from home, and if there is an accelerated reader test on the system that we have, you take a comprehension test over it. If you get...

  • Restaurant Review: Golden Spur Steakhouse

    Dave Faries, Editor|Feb 28, 2013

    You could be forgiven for not expecting much more than flabby steaks and starters emptied out of a frosted plastic bag. Steakhouses wedged between an interstate highway hotel and an all-night Shell station rarely waste precious time on food preparation and good old-fashioned mise en place. But kitchen staff at the Golden Spur hand cut hunks of red meat into sizeable steaks. They also grind their own burgers, at least according to reports. Granted, the meat hardly approaches USDA prime. But a...

  • Drinks: Budweiser Black Crown

    Dave Faries, Editor|Feb 28, 2013

    While American beer drinkers learned the beauty of craft and foreign brews, Budweiser stood fast as a bulwark for the lowest common denominator. As tastes changed toward more intricate and flavorful brands, Budweiser refused to budge from their proprietary white bread style. Now they are left to play catch up—first with their “Platinum” label and now with a trio of beers gleaned from their “Project 12” initiative. The program challenged the company’s 12 brewmasters to produce unique beers (with...

  • Kimball Boys Hold Off Gothenburg, Earn Trip To State

    Dave Faries, Editor|Feb 28, 2013

    Through the noise of a boisterous crowd, through a furious battle on the court that one player described as akin to a football game, the Kimball Longhorns emerged with a district championship and a trip to state. “I love this atmosphere,” Mike Daum shouted after the 51-40 win over Gothenburg, which stamped the team’s ticket to Lincoln for the second time in three years, the last coming in 2011. On that occasion, the Longhorns lost a back and forth battle with Milford--an experience that still...