Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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The Dix Elementary Christmas Concert was held on Thursday, Dec. 14, with Chris Stevens directing. This year's concert featured instrumental pieces including "Feliz Navidad" and "We're Going on a Sleigh Ride" as well as piano solos "Going to the North Pole/Going to the South Pole" by Callen McConnell and "O Come All Ye Faithful" by Deanna Horst. The sixth grade band played "Jingle Bells" and "Winter Medley" and Giorgetta Varra and Micayla McConnell performed two violin/piano duets - "Jingle...
How do we raise the bar for academics locally? That is the question the Kimball Board of Education has asked themselves for a number of years. Following a presentation by local teachers at the end of the 2016-17 school year, the board revisited the question and came up with an answer – reforming the eligibility policy. Proposed changes met with some opposition at the Dec. 11 board meeting from parents, educators and coaches. Some of the changes were applauded, such as those made to the g...
Two managers of the Kimball Super 8 motel pled guilty in federal court in Omaha to harboring an unlawful immigrant for financial gain and conspiracy, according to federal authorities. Vishnubhai Chaudhari, 50, and Leelabahen Chaudhari, 44, of Kimball pled guilty to the charges on Monday, Dec. 18, following their arrest on March 30, 2017. According to court documents the two admitted to holding an Indian national at the local motel from October 2011 to February 2013, when the unnamed victim...
Kimball Police Cheif Andy Bremer was forced to relieve the department’s newest hire, Mahlon Gingerich, of his position last week, just weeks after his conditional offer. “Mahlon was not able to complete the parameters of the conditional offer that the Kimball Police Department offered him, we wish him well and we are excited to see him flourish in his professional career.” Interviews were held on Monday, Dec. 18 to begin again the hiring process for the open position on the force. Among other requirements, applicants must pass the TABE test...
"This was all the kids idea" said Jeri Ferguson, the KHS Civics teacher said. After the Veteran's Day Program that the Civics class put on for our communities local Veterans, the Senior Civics class knew they had to do something special for the verterans and current servicemen and women. "We brainstormed and discussed some ideas before settling on care packages," said senior Nicholas Thomas-Lewis. "We wanted to send packages to the soldiers so they had gifts for the holidays too," Alex Reader...
A&L Sales and Service hosted a toy drive from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday Dec. 15, in memory of co-owner Lindsey Chavez's father, George Armstrong. This is the first of many planned toy drives at A&L, which allows parents to choose 1-2 presents per child. The presents were stored at the back of the store and store workers were willing to wrap the presents, out of sight of the children. Before leaving, kids were given a little gift bag with just a few more treats to eat and enjoy. The treat bags...
Kimball's FFA Chapter is pictured above from their 2017/18 Greenhand ceremony. Front row, from left, are Brayden Lukassen, Hannah Marks, Tristen Cook, Zachary Wagner, Greg Wilke, Tayla Schutz and Jake Jenkins. Middle row, from left, are Advisor Sally Wheeler, Braden Crossman, Corey Gardner, Jordan Cluff, Bailee Brower, Leisha Casimiro and Sebastian Portillo. Back row, from left, are Lane Wasielewski, Connor Cluff, Byron Rowley, Lacey Klinkhammer, Luis Portillo, Jazlyn Harroun, Megan Browning,...
The Kimball High boy's suffered a loss at Hershey on Friday evening, but regrouped in big fashion to win at Bayard on Saturday, leaving their season record even at 3-3 at the Christmas break. The Longhorns held their own early at Hershey with the score tied at 11-11 at the end of the 1st quarter, but the Panthers broke away in the second period to outscore Kimball 16-6, taking a half-time lead of 27-17 and expanded their margin even more in the second half play to win out 55-30. No one in...
The win-loss weekend for the Kimball High Lady Longhorns came with a 49-30 loss at Hershey Friday night, and a 56-47 win at Bayard on Saturday. The Kimball girls will take a 4-2 record into the Christmas Break. Not a good night for the Kimball ladies at Hershey according to coach Chauncey Pedersen. "We didn't handle the ball well and had trouble breaking their press. We started sluggish, got behind, and never caught up. At times we played right with them. We had too many turnovers and we did...
The Coyotes got their first win of the season againts Leyton last Tuesday Dec. 12 and according to coach Ryan Mumm that was the best game they have played to date this season. “Dylan Nielsen and Connor Williams both had nice games scoring 14 points each,” Terell Gray had his best game so far scoring seven points and grabbing 13 rebounds. Potter-Dix got the 38-33 win, and coach saw a few things he was very happy with. “The team executed on offense well, they saw things as they developed. They did a good job taking care of ball. Defen...
5-1 overall and 2-0 in district, not a bad way to start the season for the Potter-Dix Lady Coyotes. Just like the Coyotes the girls for Potter-Dix also added a W last Tuesday night againts Leyton. The Potter-Dix girls out scored Leyton 54-34. The Lady Coyotes saw a different outlook against Caliche Friday night, with another win 36-22. Statistics were not available for either game at press time. Potter-Dix’s only loss so far on the season comes to Kimball in the kick off tournovers of the 2017/18 year. The Lady Coyotes are also looking to f...
Coach Klent Schnell helped me out with some stats of his Kimball Junior High Wrestling Team so we can give you readers a recap of the recent 2017 season. Schnell said, “We started out with 11 wrestlers and finished with 8 due to injuries, transfers and eligibility. I believe we should have at least 15 young men out for wrestling at the junior high level. We had some kids that had never wrestled and they showed some great potential the first couple of meets, and we wrestled our best, as a team, the first half of the season. We didn’t get to hol...
The Kimball Boy's Junior Varsity ran their record to 4-0 with wins at Hershey and Bayard this past weekend. It was a nail biter at Hershey Friday night with the young Horns winning our 36-34 with a big fourth quarter spurt where they out scored the hosts 12-2. Scoring for Kimball were Beau Hanks (pictured below) with 9 including 1 trey, Javon Coyle 5, Sam Cajero 4, Austin Lulf 2, and Jacob Withrow 2 As easy night for Kimball at Bayard Saturday as they won out 75-23. Brayden Tyan lit it up with...
The Kimball girls were leading going into the 4th period at Hershey but were outscooed 14-6 in the final quarter and lost 35-33. Jenna Greenwood had 7 points and was 3/3 at the foul line. Sierra Rutledge had 7 with 1 trey, Megan Spicer 6, Sydney Biesecker (pictured below) 5 with 1 trey, Lacey Klinkhammer 3, Bailie Brower 3 with 1 trey, and Brooklin Golding 2. In a 2-quarter game at Bayard, Kimball won 22-16 with Klinkhammer high with 7, Spicer scoring 4, Greenwood 3, Jaydin Paxton 3 with 1...