Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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On July 11, Clean Harbors Inc. submitted an Approval to Construct Request to the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy. This request is to continue construction for the implementation of the new rotary kiln incinerator infrastructure. The projected completion date for the new rotary kiln incinerator is mid-2024. The approval to submit to NDEE allows Clean Harbors to continue the existing construction activities for the areas of the new incinerator layout. According to Alyssa King from...
Zelle Human Resource Solutions met Tuesday with the Kimball County Board of Commissioners for 45 minutes; the presentation was on their human resource company. For their standard fee of $5,000 a month, Zelle would help the county in the areas of salary determination, recruiting, conflict, team building and a safe sounding board. Zelle's website states: “We understand the complexities of each industry and know what it takes to hire the best talent, improve employee engagement and provide solution throughout talent assessment business p...
A Hillen Construction Co. excavator makes short work of removing the 1950 boiler unit from the basement of the former West Elementary School, as progress continues on Kimball's new hospital building project. The company, along with general contractors Haselden Construction Co. of Centennial, Colo., removed the nearly 1,000 pound cast iron boiler before filling the basement in preparation for laying the new hospital's foundation. Installation work also has started for the facility's sanitary...
Kimball Police Chief Andy Bremer and his force were busy defusing situations last week. Bremer said a small car and a semi-truck got into a road rage incident Thursay night on Interstate 80. Both vehicles left the interstate at the Kimball exit, began arguing, and blocked traffic at the stop light. Kimball police broke them up, and both were sent on their way with a significant distance between them returning to the interstate. On Tuesday, Kimball police, the Nebraska State Patrol and Kimball Sheriff's Office served a search warrant on the...
Brian and Rebecca White at 604 Chestnut St. received Yard of the Week honors. The Spanish style stucco house built in 1920 was purchased by the White family in 2006. It was overgrown and required a lot of work to get everything looking good. In the spring, the long line of lilacs in bloom border the yard and daisies highlight the house and yard. Brian and Rebecca are joined in the photo by Samantha Johnson and Morgan Baker....
Good morning, sure is hotter than a hootchie-cootchie, right?! Take care out there. Tonight, July 21st, Bands on Broadway are at the 18th Street Plaza from 6-9 p.m., and in Chadron Bands on Bordeaux will be there at the same time frame at Railroad Park. Tomorrow there will be another presentation of the "Emigrant Experience" out at the Scottsbluff National Monument. The ranger will be on hand from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Not long ago we had the pleasure of taking our grandson on a hike down...
A walking trail to the Tri-State Marker – where Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado meet – will allow one to experience the High Plains without disturbing the natural beauty of the private property. Previously, the landowner got to the point where he was thinking of closing off access to the marker because the private property was being damaged by carelessness. The Tri-State marker is on land owned since the Depression by Dennis Kieler's family. His grandfather paid 7 cents an acre for it. Their hous...
Local individuals reported about an inch of much-needed rain on Friday in the city of Kimball, but a significant wind event occurred just north of town. The wind flipped the pivot in this wheat field and the two end towers were flipped on another pivot north of Lodgepole Creek....
The City of Kimball recently removed the barricades at Gotte Park and 4th Street to allow traffic to pass between the park and nearby neighborhood. But in an effort to slow traffic from the park, two sets of speed bumps were installed. The matter of what should be done here has brought about some community discussion....
LINCOLN – Tom Southard made it. The longtime Observer sportswriter has been selected posthumously for induction into the Nebraska Journalism Hall of Fame. He is among six inductees who will join the hall during ceremonies to be held Saturday, Oct. 22, at The Graduate Hotel, 141 N. 9th St., in Lincoln. The other 2022 inductees are Tim Anderson, associate professor emeritus, UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications; John Bender, associate dean and journalism professor, UNL College of J...
Banner County Treasurer Monty Stoddard submitted his resignation to the Banner County Commissioners on July 5. The resignation was accepted by the commissioners and will be effective at the end of July. Stoddard began as Banner County Treasurer in 2011 and was slated for re-election in November. His name is no longer on the ballot. He and Banner County Assessor Bernice Huffman were found guilty by Scotts Bluff County Court Judge Kris Mickey of public indecency in an incident that occurred Dec. 28 at the Banner County Courthouse. Both were...
Kimball's Tom O'Brien will step onto the stage again this week in the Theatre West production of "Legally Blonde." Legally Blonde runs July 14-16, and then July 20-23 in the Judy Chaloupka Theater at WNCC in Scottsbluff. In recent weeks, O'Brien and the rest of the cast have been hitting the rehearsal schedule hard. O'Brien plays the part of Professor Callahan, who is a "villainous and conniving" law professor at Harvard Law School. His character routinely picks on and humiliates law student...
The purchase of a new activity bus topped the action items for the Kimball School Board at its monthly meeting in July. To upgrade the bus fleet and maintain a rotation, the board opted to purchase a 2023 Thomas activity bus. With two bus trade-ins, the new activity bus will cost $179,765. The current activity bus is a 2011 model and has over 150,000 miles on it. The delivery time for the new bus is estimated to be March 2023. Graphics/mascot lettering will be available upon arrival. Under additional action items, the board approved the...
On the corner of Second and Myrtle streets sits a beautiful, stately house owned by Chico Fernandez and Jeanette Merryfield. They purchased the place about two years ago and after remodeling the interior they set to work on the yard. They now enjoy the manicured yard, porch and fire pit. From left are Chico, Jeanette, Savannah Johnson and Heather Entingh....
Good morning, wheat harvest is happening in Banner and Kimball counties, and others I am sure. Still green in places but it won’t be long. I heard on the radio that over the weekend the weather temperature highs were well into the three digits with 111 degrees reported in McCook. As much as I love the hot weather I do have to admit, that is too much for me! It was cooler on Monday, but then it’s back up into the 90s for quite some time to come. Good harvest weather. We start this week with music. The Bands on Broadway series will present the...
Kids take the plunge to go after cans of pop at the bottom of Kimball Swimming Pool, one of the games and contests the pool sponsored on Fourth of July....
The Culpepper and Merriweather Circus entertained the crowd last Friday at its Kimball performances. The Stauffer family, dad Justin, Judd, 2-1/2, mom Jessie and little Jennings, 1, were enthralled with the performance of the clown....
Teresa Lockwood and her grandson, Jacob Wendt, take turns lighting fireworks outside her Kimball home – and they were having a good ol' time....
When she landed in Africa, Carli Wurdeman recalled, "I stepped off that plane, and I got slapped in the face." Carli, a 2020 Kimball High School graduate,was talking about the oppressive heat in Accra, Ghana. Accra is 8 degrees north of the equator. "I had flown out of Denver, changed planes in New York, then straight to Ghana, and I had on long pants and a hoodie," she explained. Accra is the capital and largest city in Ghana, located on the southern coast at Gulf of Guinea. The heat wouldn't b...
July Fourth was a fun-filled day in Kimball with the Kimball Volunteer Fire Department, Kimball Connect, and Friends of the Library working all morning to the delight of families. Hundreds of people enjoyed the festivities. The cheerleaders sold hot dogs and Main Street Market supplied the watermelon. The big hits were ballon animals by Kayla Fennell, fire truck rides, a High West Energy demonstration, and the craft tables and paper airplane station by Friends of the Library. The City of...
The Kimball County Commissioners held their regular bimonthly meeting on Tuesday, July 5. Starting Aug. 1, the Kimball County ambulance will be operated by Kimball Health Services. The subject had been discussed at previous meetings. Action by the commissioners was taken to mutually cancel the ambulance agreement between Kimball County, Kimball Health Services and and Regional West Medical Center, which began in December 2016. Then the commissioners approved and authorized an agreement between Kimball County and Kimball Health Services for the...
DARIA ANDERSON-FADEN / the observer Kimball's Yard of the Week remained in the Sunnyview area this week as Dale and Gretchen Green were selected for their perfectly polished lawn and flower space. Gretchen said that she planted all the flowers from seed. Cosmos and elephant ears are her favorites. A couple of hours a day are spent watering, weeding and caring for the flower and vegetable gardens. Gretchen and Dale both handle the biweekly mowing duties....
Good morning, here is hoping you had a great 4th of July. Sure was hot enough. We will start this week off with the Bands on Broadway series featuring Gabriel the Brute, and the 43rd Army Band. They were recently at Fort Rob, so if you missed them, here is your second chance. They will be at the 18th Street Plaza from 6- 9 p.m. July, 7th. Events for the annual Oregon Trail Days will be scheduled July 7 -10 and for a look at that schedule go to Information:www.oregontraildays.com. Bands on Bordeaux, part of the free summer concerts in Chadron,...
Kimball's historic Fraternal Hall was back in business last week as a performance venue. Theatre West presented "The Library in the Lighthouse," a show that Kimball Public Library hosted. Attendance was estimated at 60. Museum tours also are available at the Fraternal Hall this summer on many weekday afternoons....