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 Post Office carrier Johnny Martinez, who tranferred here from Sterling, Colo., has some bitter cold work days coming up. This winter has been relatively mild, but its coldest snap so far is forecast to hit in force on Thrusday, Jan. 11, with a string of days with low temperatures plunging into minus degrees. See the Main Street Market forecast below. The City of Kimball advises water customers to keep a small stream of water running from faucets to keep pipes from freezing and breaking...
The Kimball County campaign season is underway at this early date for the May 14 primary. Challenger David R. Hottell (not the sheriff) and incumbent Carl Stander are off and running. They already have filed as Republicans in the election for a seat on the county Board of Commissioners. No other candidate filings were received at the county courthouse as of Monday, but a good many area positions are up for election in 2024. The Kimball County Clerk’s Office provided this list of those positions, the incumbents and term lengths: • Kimball Cou...
Mallory Hottell rounds out the Observer's presentation of photos of Kimball FFA members who excelled during the District 12 Leadership Conference at Chadron. She is district champ in junior public speaking. Kimball will send a large delegation of qualifying members to the state contest....
Katharine Dolcater Lockwood, 80, of Estes Park, Colorado, died at Kimball Health Services on Saturday, January 6, 2024. Cremation has been held and memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, January 12, 2024 at the Cantrell Funeral Home in Kimball with Pastor Lorri Kentner officiating. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view Katharine's tribute wall and leave condolences and stories for the family. Memorials may be given in her memory to Trinity United Methodist Church, Boy...
Jeffrey J. Morgart, 56 of Kimball, died at his home in Kimball on January 2, 2024. Cremation has been held and memorial services will be at 2:00 p.m. in the Kimball Cemetery on Friday, January 12, 2024. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view Jeff's tribute wall to leave condolences and stories for the family. Memorials may be given to the family. The services for Jeff have been entrusted to the Cantrell Funeral Home. Jeffrey Morgart was born in Sidney, Nebraska on July 17, 1967, the son...
Steven Richard Thompson, 71, of Pine Bluffs, WY passed away peacefully on January 4th, 2024, in a Denver, Colorado hospital. Steve was born to Richard Thompson and Melvia Stouffer on April 28th, 1952 in Vinton, Iowa. Steve grew up in Western Nebraska and Southeast Wyoming. His sophomore year in high school, he moved to Pine Bluffs and was raised by his grandparents, Dallas and Bernice Wood. They were very supportive of his love for football, basketball and track, which he excelled in. He had...
The Longhorns boys basketball team went 2-1 in its first three games after Christmas break, improving to 6-3 on the season. Next up going into this week was a trip to backyard rival Potter-Dix on Tuesday, Jan. 9, a JV game with visiting Pine Bluffs on Jan. 11, then games against visiting Bridgeport on Jan. 12 and visiting Gordon-Rushville on Jan. 13. Here's a recap of Kimball's wins over South Platte on Jan. 2 and Banner County on Jan. 5 and the loss to Chase County on Jan. 6 Kimball 84, South P...
The first game after the Christmas break for the Lady Longhorns was a trip to South Platte on Tuesday, January 1. Kimball started out strong and stuck with the hosts, staying within 10 points for the first three quarters, but could not overcome them in the fourth. Coach Jaclyn Burks said "the girls hustled, but the team has been battling the flu and sickness and we ran out of gas in the last quarter and put ourselves in foul trouble as well, so that did not help our efforts." Burks was pleased...
The Coyote basketball teams opened 2024 with a challenging task, games against rivals Bayard and South Platte. The boys team was able to grab wins in both contests, while the Lady Coyotes struggled with losses in their first contests of the new year. The Lady Coyotes opened on Friday night against a very strong Bayard team, and it was quickly apparent that the Lady Coyotes did not have the firepower to keep up with the Lady Tigers. The Bayard girls opened a big lead early and cruised all night, ending the game with a 59-9 victory....
After two long days and nights of working wrecks on the interstate during the Christmas blizzard, Kimball County Sheriff Dave Hottell said he anticipated having a nice, quiet day at home on Wednesday. The relaxing day off did not happen. A county court arrest warrant for nonpayment of a fine would trigger a search warrant and eventually the arrest of a total of seven individuals for felony meth possession. Wednesday began by serving an arrest warrant for fines unpaid from the County Court of...
Contractors are putting the finishing touches on Kimball's new hospital, with a planned completion date of Jan. 12 and a projected opening of Feb. 5. Those dates are pending inspections by several entities and are certainly not "set in stone" according to Troy Kurz, Director of Facilities at KHS and project manager for the $43 million new construction project. Kurz said final inspections by the state fire marshal and state electrical inspector are complete and final reports are expected within...
Pastor Roger Gillming and Kathy Welfl, volunteer leaders with Operation Christmas Child in the Nebraska Panhandle, expressed gratitude to all who helped “this amazing ministry” grow significantly in the region this past Christmas season. Gillming and Welfl said 572 more shoeboxes were filled this year than last year thanks to assistance in the goodwill effort from volunteers, the Observer and other media. “With your help, 3,372 shoeboxes from the Panhandle were filled (with donations) and delivered to our central drop-off site in Allia...
If you're not out and about at 5:30 a.m. this time of year, this is what downtown Kimball looks like. A winter postcard. The city once again did a fine job stringing those lights across the business building roofs....
Holy cow! Just like that we have a New Year! New do-overs to get it right. Not a whole lot going on, but here is what I’ve got. Today, January 4th, 2024 there is a New Year Animal Camp out at the Riverside Discovery center from 9:30 a.m.to 3:30 p.m. with a pizza lunch provided on site. Register at the gift shop please. Yesterday the staff at Banner County School returned, with or without smiles on their faces. Those vacations are always too short. The students returned today, and probably are ready to be back, and with tomorrow (the 5th) to be...
The Observer is not done yet publishing images of Kimball FFA members who excelled during the recent District 12 Leadership Conference at Chadron State. It takes time, you know, when there are so many state qualifiers and ribbon winners. Here we have Carly Murdoch, with her red ribbon, and Julia Winstrom, with her blue. They both showed their stuff in employment skills. Kimball FFA will be sending a large delegation of qualifying members to the state contest at Lincoln in Apr...
Harley Buford Carter, 84, of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, passed away on December 28, 2023. Cremation has taken place and graveside services will be held at the Nebraska Veteran's Cemetery in Alliance, NE at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that contributions be made to the Harrisburg, Nebraska (Banner County) Volunteer Fire Department in memory of Buford Carter. Online condolences may be made by viewing Buford's memorial page at www.bridgmanfuneralhome.com. Bridgman...
Michael D. Curless, 86, of Kimball, died at Kimball Health Services on Sunday, December 24, 2023. Cremation has been held and memorial services will be held at a later date. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view Michael's Tribute Wall and leave condolences and stories for the family. The services for Michael have been entrusted to the Cantrell Funeral Home. Michael D Curless was born 2-23-1937 in Quincy, Illinois and died 12-24-2023 in Kimball, Nebraska. Born to Donald Curless and Laura...
Elda H. (Giesert) Heidemann, 95, of Fairbury, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 14, 2023, at Gardenside LTC-JCHC in Fairbury, NE. She was born on July 24, 1928, in Denver, CO to Adolph and Elda (John) Geisert. Elda attended public school through 6th Grade, then Lutheran School and graduated from South High School. She also attended the Denver Art Institute. Elda worked at AT&T in Denver before moving to Kimball, NE with her beloved 'Grandpa Drake', who had homesteaded in Kimball....
Formal services for Lawrence Harold Christensen of Kimball will be held Friday, January 5, 2024, at Calvlary Chapel Church, 129 Walnut St,, Windsor, CO 80550 at 2 p.m. with a reception to follow at the church. Harris Funeral Directors of Aurora, CO have been entrusted with arrangements. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to St. Judes in his memory at https://fundraising.stjude.org/goto/Lchristensonmemorial An informal Celebration of Life will be held at the 4-H Building in Kimball, NE, on Saturday, January 6, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. We...
After public hearings and agenda items, the Kimball City Council rezoned two properties from single family residential to multi-family residential for a planned Clean Harbors housing developent. At the public hearings, the council heard neighbors of the properties voice concerns about traffic, the number of apartments, and the stipulation that Clean Harbors open the apartments to the general public. The two rezoned tracts directly north of Kimball County Manor were re-plated to one tract. The...
The Kimball School Board is expected to continue discussing and gathering information on the four day school week into its next regular meeting. According to Superintendent Trevor Anderson, the next year’s school calendar is typically approved in March – and decisions will be made. Kimball Public Schools currently function on a 4.5 day a week calendar with a half-day of professional development scheduled on Wednesday afternoons for the entire year. In recent weeks, surveys were sent out to students, staff and patrons to obtain information. A m...
The day after Christmas brought an official blizzard warning and blizzard condititons to the southern Panhandle on Tuesday that the National Weather Service forecast would last until Wednesday morning with gusts up to 60 mph and up to 7 inches of snow in the Kimball area. The storm kept city road crews busy plowing, above on East 2nd Street, and forced some business to adjust operations. Interstate 80 and Highway30 were closed from Cheyenne to North Platte, the Kimball landfill was shut down,...
The Kimball City/County Park and Recreation Executive Board voted unanimously to borrow $182,500 at 5.35% interest to drill a well and repair Four Winds Golf Course’s largest pump. Sargent Irrigation from Broken Bow will be doing the installation and repairs. The well will be operational by April 1, 2024. Approval for the well was given at a meeting on Tuesday, December 19. Four Winds Superintendent Jeremy Williams explained to the Observer the recent trouble with the large 100 hp well. For the past couple of years, the heads have plugged up wi...
The winners for Santa's Helpers 2023 Kimball residential and business decorating contest have been announced. Residential winners are Cheryl and Charlie Paul of 316 S. Chestnut St. in first (top photo) and Jim and Vonnie Saukerson of 121 W. 7th St. in second. Business winners are Upside Down Daycare at 1200 E. 6th St. in first and Kimball County Manor at 810 E. 7th St. in second (bottom photo). Santa's Helpers also gave special recognition to three houses on Road 29: Ben and Jill Ferguson,...
The winners for Santa's Helpers 2023 Kimball residential and business decorating contest have been announced. Residential winners are Cheryl and Charlie Paul of 316 S. Chestnut St. in first (top photo) and Jim and Vonnie Saukerson of 121 W. 7th St. in second. Business winners are Upside Down Daycare at 1200 E. 6th St. in first and Kimball County Manor at 810 E. 7th St. in second (bottom photo). Santa's Helpers also gave special recognition to three houses on Road 29: Ben and Jill Ferguson,...