Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Oliver Reservoir saw a few boat loads of campers, fishers, over the course of the last holiday weekend. Boats, jet skis, campers, swimmers, horses, you name it, its probably been at Oliver these past few weeks. According to Randy Gunn, head of maintenance at Oliver, there are about 50 designated camp sites at the lake, and his best guess was nearly 40 of them were occupied over Memorial Day weekend. "It is really hard to get an accurate head count of lake-goers, especially when there are four to...
Get your spurs and load the pickup, it's time for the 10th Annual Kimball Ranch Rodeo. Yes, you heard right, the 10th annual Kimball Ranch Rodeo, Saturday, June 9, beginning at 5:30 at the Kimball Fairgrounds. The town will be full of cowboys, cowgirls, muggers and ropers, and a few bronc riders also ready to try their hand and get a little dirty. Many of the finest contestants from Nebraska and the surrounding states, including Wyoming and Colorado, will compete in the Kimball Ranch Rodeo for a...
Cars, hot dogs and burgers, filled the air Saturday morning in downtown. Kimball's Day Out consisted of business and individual booths lined-up down Chestnut Street, the Kimball-Banner Chamber of Commerce open house alongside one of the stops of the Sugar Valley Rally. According to Amy Sapp, Special Projects Coordinator, with the City of Kimball, there were 155 hamburgers and 72 hot dogs grilled throughout the morning. A total of 55 pristine cars, classic cars, muscle cars, old sportsters and...
Gary N. Johnson, 62, of Potter, died at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at the First English Lutheran Church in Kimball with Pastor Caryl Miller officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 from 1:00 until 5:00 p.m. to sign the register book and leave condolences for the family. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view Gary's Tribute Wall and leave cond...
Larry D. Muhr, 83, of Kimball, died at the Kimball County Manor with his daughter, who was his best hunting buddy, by his side on Wednesday, May 30, 2018. Memorial services will be held at the First Baptist Church at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, June 8, 2018 with Pastor Mel Daves officiating. Inurnment will be held at a later date in the Chalk Creek Cemetery in Banner County, a mile from where he grew up. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view Larry's Tribute Wall and leave condolences and...
Richarrd A. "Dick" Soule, 62, of Banner County, died on Saturday, June 2, 2018. Memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, June 8, 2018 at the Cantrell Funeral Home in Kimball with Pastor Ken Boston officiating. Inurnment will be held at a later date. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view Dick's Tribute Wall and leave condolences and stories for the family. In lieu of flowers the family asks that memorial donations be given to the Banner County Volunteer Fire Department at...
The Kimball High Boy’s Golf Team has put another outstanding season in the books with a lot of good memories for Coach Chad Wise and his team. The Longhorns recorded team championships, 2 runner-up finishes and a 4th place State Tournament. They defended and repeated as conference champions in both the Western Conference and SPVA conferences and won the District Tournament. A positive is that four members of this year’s team will return, but a negative is they will graduate two members and they will miss the play of seniors Kole Bush and Andrew...
I enjoyed an All Star Basketball Saturday evening giving me one more opportunity to watch some of our immediate area All Star girls in action, including Kimball’s Hannah Biesecker, who had an All Star performance hitting 4 treys and scoring in double figures with 12 points. She also did a good job of rebounding, but her Green Team got whomped 108-81 by the All Star Orange Team. Jori Peters of Mitchell, a member of the winning Orange Team, was chosen MVP. She will continue her basketball career at Chadron State. Other members of the Orange T...
As we all know, ball field action in Kimball and the surrounding areas kicked off earlier last month. Your hometown Legion team is under way at home and on the road. On tap for this week, the ball players will travel north to play in the Gering Tournament. Saturday morning June 9, Kimball will face-off with the home team, Gering, at 10:30 a.m., and will then play a second game on Saturday against Chadron at 1:00 p.m. Sunday of the tournament, Kimball will face McCook at 2:00 p.m. On Tuesday June 12, Kimball will look to play two games against...
