Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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A dramatic representation of a two-vehicle accident was staged for the students of Kimball High School on Tuesday, April 4. "Every 15 Minutes Program," is a national program used to dramatically instill in students the potentially dangerous consequences of impaired and distracted driving. Just prior to witnessing the dramatized accident, students at Kimball High School heard a multimedia presentation by a former Nebraska State Trooper. Following the mock accident, students were debriefed by...
Terry Galloway, an auditor from Almquist, Maltzahn, Galloway and Luth, CPA, presented an unmodified report to the Kimball City Council at the March 21 council meeting. “What you have received here is an unmodified report,” Galloway said. “Which is the highest level of assurance you can receive from an independent audit firm, so congratulations. Basically it means everything is true and accurate within the financial statements, themselves.” According to Galloway’s report, the City decreased overall debt by $192,000, or by six percent, and the b...
Current Kimball County Zoning regulation section 5.02 states that an asphalt or concrete batch plant and borrow pits used temporarily and exclusively for the completion of a public road improvement project is allowed in A1 and A2 agriculture zoning districts and in section 5.03 borrow pits are listed as a conditional use with the approval of a permit. However, when the Planning Commission began working on zoning regulations for Kimball County, landowners were told that if their property was used in a certain manner, it would be...
As the school year nears an end, Kimball Public Schools has begun accepting resignations for the coming year. At the March 13 Kimball Board of Education meeting two such resignations were accepted, that of Jordan Sukup, pre-Kindergarten, and kindergarten teacher Nora Robinson, with more to follow, according to school superintendent Marshall Lewis. However, two current teachers have been approved for new contracts in existing positions. Kim Beyer, the current art, publication and career teacher at Kimball High School, was approved through an...
The Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. In May 1964, Beverly Webb graduated from Sheridan, Wyoming High School. The following month, she enlisted in the United States Army. She knew that she wanted to get as much schooling in accounting as she could get. The Army offered her some great...
Kenda Dail Brown, 74 of Kimball, passed away at Kimball Health Services on Friday, March 24, 2017. Kenda was the only child of Kenneth and Eva Brown. She was born on January 13, 1943, raised in Montana and moved to Denver when her father was transferred. She attended college in Colorado where she earned a master’s degree in library science. Her teaching career included one year in Colorado. She also taught in Wallace, Nebraska, before coming to Kimball in 1969. She retired from the Kimball Schools in 2002. Kenda was known for being the best r...
The Panhandle was represented well at the 2017 Nebraska Rural Community School Association (NRCSA) Spring conference this last month as three area school districts, from nearly 200, received recognition. NRCSA represents more than 75,000 students across 195 different schools, 88 counties, and 24 legislative districts. Their purpose is to promote the general advancement of public education in rural communities and to provide recognition to quality rural education programs. Kimball Public Schools...
The Kimball boys finished second and the girls ninth, leaving them in third place at Monday's Tri-State Track Invite held at Creek Valley High School in Chappell. Bridgeport won the boy's division with 144 points with Kimball runner-up with 99. Hyannis won the female division with 115 points, edging out Bridgeport with 108 and Kimball finished ninth in the 13 school listing with 24. In the combined team scores it was Bridgeport the winner with 252 points, Hyannis runner-up with 146 and Kimball...
The Kimball High boy’s golf team opened the season this past Thursday, competing in the Gering Quad, nine hole tournament. This tournament wasn’t on the regular schedule but Kimball Activities Director Ken Smith saw it as an opportunity to give the Kimball team one more chance to get some competition. Gering hosted Scottsbluff, Kimball and Mitchell for the late afternoon nine hole play that allowed each school to play as many golfers as they wanted with the low four scores from each team used to decide the team scores. Gering won out with 172 f...
Despite the cold weather, Kimball High got a golf tournament and a track meet in this past week. The golfers played in a four-school Quad Tourney at Gering with just a nine hole format and despite not having their number one golfer, Jordan Greenwood, and despite just having four golfers while the larger schools played seven and eight, they were just 3 strokes from winning it all. Jordan was on a family vacation in Nevada but he wasn’t skipping out on practice as he played five top courses in five days with Dad Kenny. Coach Chad Wise saw his n...
Senator Steve Erdman, District 47, hosted a town hall meeting on Friday, March 24 at the Kimball Public Library with more than a dozen in attendance. Erdman answered questions from the public on issues such as funding for education and property tax, and he spoke about serving on the Committee on Committees – who decides which committees others serve on. "I was fortunate enough to be elected to the Committee on Committees, it is very seldom that a freshman senator coming off the street gets to s...