Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Kimball Mayor Keith Prunty has chosen Dan Dean for Kimball’s City Administrator. Prunty offered the position to Dean this week, Dean accepted the offer, and a special council meeting will be scheduled for next week for council approval. Dean, the former Town Manager of Mead, Colo., has more than 30 years of experience in local government management. Dean has been a city manager in Colorado, Nebraska and Oregon and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Indiana University. He is currently the interim town administrator of Pao...
9 was a busy year in Kimball. A young Kimball man saved an elderly woman from a burning car, the Goodhand Theater was reopened, a small group of young ladies made wrestling history, the Kimball Event Center was saved, some area youth met a famous movie star, the Kimball Jr. Sr. High School got a facelift and the local Legion baseball team was revived. We begin where every new year does, in January. Part one will revisit stories through June and next week, in part two, we will revisit stories from July through December. January 7, 2016 A two...
Kimball City Council said goodbye to council member John Morrison at the regular council meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 20, ending 18 years of public service. Morrison's four-year term on the council was up, and following the election on November 8, former council member Kim Baliman and James Shields each won a seat on the board. Morrison began his public service on the Kimball Economic Development Committee in September of 1998. In April 2003 he sat on the Planning Commission and in September of...
Zebbedia G Gibb, received his Ph.D. in social psychology on Dec. 10, from the University of Nevada in Reno. While this is the acme of his formal education, Zeb looks forward to lifelong learning through his research. He graduated from Kimball High School in 2000 and attended Western Nebraska Community College to get his general education credits. Zeb said he attended the nearest community college, "mainly because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. This let me stay close to the area...
Sitting Bull, his son Crow Foot and fourteen other Sioux, had been killed in a botched attempt to arrest him on December 15, 1890. Stunned by his death and fearful of reprisal approximately 200 of his Hunkpapa band left the Standing Rock Reservation to join the Miniconjou Sioux at the Cheyenne River Reservation. The Miniconjou band was under the leadership of Chief Spotted Elk. The attempted arrest was based on the false assumption that Sitting Bull was a leader and instigator of the recent...
For approximately the past decade, Sheriff Harry Gillway has been Kimball County’s Emergency Management Director. Although Sheriff Gillway has successfully fulfilled his duties as emergency manager, he has recommended to the Kimball County Commissioners that they look into joining either Region 21 or Region 22 emergency management association. According to Gillway, he has no preference to either region, liking and respecting both directors equally, stating that he could work well with either. Gillway also remarked that he can and will c...
Sherri Winstrom, Kimball County Assessor, told the Kimball Board of Equalization during their last regular meeting of the year, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, that Stanard Appraisal Services will complete the physical aspect of measuring and assessing all of the county’s rural residential, commercial and residential buildings by the end of the year. She added that after the first of the year, the assessor’s office will continue entering the information into the system. When the board closed the Board of Equalization meeting and reconvened as Kimball Cou...
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. Having a parent who had served in the US military (Navy) for over 30 years would have an influence on a young man. Upon graduation from high school, William Simmons (Bill) pretty much knew what he was going to be doing the next few years. He had...
