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Articles from the May 18, 2017 edition


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  • The race is on

    May 18, 2017

  • District considers capital projects for summer completion

    Dakota Kuhns|May 18, 2017

    The Kimball High School will soon receive a facelift, in the form of new windows that will be installed in eight east and west classrooms this summer. Superintendent of Kimball Schools, Marshall Lewis, discussed the capital improvement project with the Kimball Board of Education at their regular meeting on Thursday, May 11. Two companies were considered for the project, Simonton Windows and Pella. Simonton was chosen as the more cost effective solution. The Kimball High School Ag shop also has Simonton Windows that were installed a few years...

  • Kimball County has a new tool to Live Healthy

    Tonia Copeland|May 18, 2017

    Kimball County residents are now able to get discount prescriptions, medical, vision and dental services through the Live Healthy: U.S. Counties Program. The program, offered through the National Association of Counties (NACo), is free to residents of NACo member counties such as Kimball, and everyone is accepted. Live Healthy has been offered to NACo member counties since 2004, and though Kimball became a member county earlier this year, the local program is not yet fully operational, according to Andrew Goldschmidt, NACo Director of Membershi...

  • Memorial Day Service announced

    May 18, 2017

    VFW Post #2243 and the Kimball County Veteran’s Service Office announce the 2017 Memorial Day service schedule. The event begins at 10 a.m. At the Kimball Cemetery with Greetings and Welcome followed by the Opening Prayer by Pastor Pettit. Bob and Mary Kay Jenner will sing a Patriotic Song and Joyce Witt will perform the Laying of the Wreath for the unknown soldier prior to the keynote speaker, Dale Wittrock, Past Dep Commander and State Buddy Poppy Chairman of Davenport. The Honor Guard salute and taps will follow and the Raising of the F...

  • Planetarium experience at KPL to prepare for safe eclipse viewing

    Tonia Copeland|May 18, 2017

    The Kimball Public Library and the Friends of the Kimball Public Library, with funding from the Grace L. Olsen Memorial, are pleased to bring the Portable Planetarium to Kimball youth. “This is really neat and something that Grace would have approved,” Liesch said. The planetarium, called the Edgerton Explorit Center, comes to Kimball from the Edgerton Center in Aurora on Wednesday, May 31 with several 30-minute showings available. For youth enrolled in the KPL summer reading program, available viewing times are at 11 a.m., 11:45, 1 p.m. and 1:...

  • Kimball music students give final 2017 performance - POPS concert

    May 18, 2017

  • Dale H. Dietz

    May 18, 2017

    Dale H. Dietz, 69, of Kimball, died at University Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado surrounded by his family on Thursday, May 11, 2017 after a heroic battle with leukemia. Memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 20, 2017 at the First English Lutheran Church in Kimball with Pastor Caryl Miller officiating. Inurnment will be held in the Kimball Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 1:00 until 5:00 p.m. to sign the register book and leave condolences...

  • Letter to the Editor

    May 18, 2017

    Wow, I went in to pay our city bill the other day, Mrs. Baker pulls up our account and looks across the counter at me and says there’s no balance due. “There’s no balance due?” “Nope it’s been paid, there is actually a credit of $26.” I told her thank you and walked out the door but in my mind I was tearing up. How generous, I need to write a thank you to...? I drove around the block and walked back in to ask who had made the payment. The payment was anonymous. Could be anyone, I could walk right past them at the supermarket and not even know i...

  • Veteran's History Project

    Larry Nelson|May 18, 2017

    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. It was a round-about route to get into the military for William O. Graves (Bill). At age 20 he was drafted by the Selective Service Board in Southern Illinois. He went to St. Louis, MO for the physical and other testing. He returned home for a short...

  • Longtime Kimball retailer going out of business

    May 18, 2017

  • Longhorns qualify three for State Track

    Tom Southard|May 18, 2017

    Kimball will be sending three athletes to the 2017 Nebraska State Track and Field Championships this weekend at Omaha Burke Stadium, and the honored trip consists of senior Jaden Withrow in the triple jump, junior Hannah Biesecker in the long jump and sophomore Brady Kilgore in the 110 meter high hurdles. This will be the fourth trip to Omaha for Withrow who won his pet event once again at the C-11 District held at Mitchell this past Friday, and it is the third time he has emerged as the...

  • Kimball Golf Team SPVA Conference Champions

    Tom Southard|May 18, 2017

    The Kimball Boy's golf team captured the team title in winning the SPVA Conference championship in their latest conquest of an undefeated season to date. The Longhorns shot a solid round of 308 for the win with Perkins County runnerup with 324, followed by St. Pats with 330, Sutherland 379 and Hershey 386. The conference tournament was held on the Sutherland golf course. The Horns also took the top two individual spots as well with Jordan Greenwood winning out over teammate, Zane Anthony, in a...

  • Jock Talk

    Tom Southard|May 18, 2017

    An exciting week of local sports with Kimball qualifying 3 individuals for this week’s State Track Meet and with the Kimball high boy’s golf team winning the SPVA Conference Tournament and keeping their undefeated season alive. The Horns were off to District Golf at Cambridge this past Tuesday hoping for a repeat win in their defense of last year’s District championship. We will know the results of that tournament late Tuesday but too late for our print deadline. ---------------------------- A very enjoyable day at the District track meet...

  • 2017 Graduation photos

    May 18, 2017