Week of September 5, 2024
Week of September 5, 2024
"Here We Go Again, Victorious"is the theme for Superior High School's 2024 homecoming week. On Tuesday, the theme for the day was Toga Tuesday. A pep rally was held at 8:45 a.m. with a hula hoop race for class competition. Twenty students from each class competed. The cross country meet was at 4 p.m. at the Superior Country Club. Varsity volleyball was at Fillmore Central at 5 p.m. Junior varsity football played at Lawrence-Nelson at 6 p.m. Middle school football was at Lawrence-Nelson at 5...
The Glen Elder Lions Club Tractor Cruise has been touring Mitchell County since 2006. On Saturday, 29 tractors, drivers and support personnel met for the 18th annual event at Hopewell Church on the north shore of Waconda Lake. The church has been the starting point of the Tractor Cruise for the past several years. By 8 a.m., the area around the church was filled with tractors of many colors, Farmall red, Ford gray, Centaur yellow, Minneapolis Moline yellow, John Deere green, Oliver green and...
The 34th annual Lawrence Fire and Rescue Road Rally was held Sunday. The start and end points were in Lawrence. There were 32 vehicles entered with approximately 130 people participating. The results as submitted by the sponsors follow: Road Rally Placings, 1. Denise Mazour, 11 seconds behind. 2. Tim Herbeck, 61 seconds ahead. 3. Trevor Biltoft, 1 minute 46 second behind. Poker Run Winner: 1. Terry Miller, ace and ten straight; 2. Rob Ostdiek, queen and eight straight. 3. Garry Miller, three...
The parking spaces at Superior's Brodstone Memorial Field filled up early Friday. There was a feeling of optimistic anticipation in the air as fans awaited the opening kickoff of the 2024 season. The Wildcats have a new head coach, Ryan Renz, and returned to Class C-2 11-man football. After the presentation of the colors, the game got underway. Neither team could find a consistent offense rhythm throughout the first two quarters of play. Dropped passes, penalties and staunch defenses held each...
The Nuckolls County Ag Society hosted two Nebraska High School rodeos over the weekend, one Saturday and the other on Sunday on the fairgrounds at Nelson. Four contestants were from Nuckolls County: Bayleigh Bohlen, Jasper Elledge, Monty Hajny and Josie Hajny. Josie also competes in barrells and break-away roping. Bohlen competed in pole bending and barrel racing. The other three participated in team roping. Jasper and Monty both roped the head. Josie roped the feet. All four attend...
Beginning any high school sports season can be tough. Starting with a team that lost many of players from last year's team and playing one of the top teams in your class compounds the start. L-N lost its opening game of the 2024 season last Friday when they traveled to Howells-Dodge. The score was 8-36. Score by quarter: L-N 0 8 0 0 - 8 H-D 14 6 8 8 - 36 For a first game of the season, the game was well played by both teams. Each team had one turnover and penalties were scarce. There was no...
The Superior High School volleyball team found the transition from practice to actual game to be tougher than expected. The Wildcats hosted the Thayer Central Titans at Superior Thursday. Thayer Central came out on top with a three-set, 26-28, 18-25 and 20-25 sweep. Superior lost the nailbiter first set 28-26. They were unable to generate the needed momentum to stage a comeback. Superior hosted the Fillmore Central Panthers Tuesday with match results unavailable at press time. On Thursday,...
The Rock Hills high School volleyball team kicked off the regular 2024 season with two wins at the Pike Valley triangular match at Scandia Friday. The Grizzlies made quick work of Pike Valley with a two-set, 25-9 and 25-5. The Grizzlies swept Tescott in two sets, 25-12 and 25-21. The Grizzlies competed at the St. John’s-Tipton triangular, at Tipton, Tuesday. Match results were unavailable at press time. Halle Mizner led the Rock Hills Rock Hills killers against Pike Valley with four. Bethany Simmelink and Alex Fogo accounted for three kills...
The Rock Hills High School football team gets the 2024 season underway, Friday, when they travel to Beloit to take on St. John’s. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. Wyatt Flynn returns as head coach. Stuart Vance and Jarrett Christie serve as assistant coaches. Kaden Wurm is the student manager. The team looks to improve on their 3-6 record from last season. They were eliminated in the first round of post-season play. The team returns the bulk of its starters from last season. There are several freshmen who will be looked to as contributors on...
The Lawrence-Nelson volleyball team went 1-2 at their opening triangular match at Axtell Saturday. They downed Dundy County-Stratton in three sets, 25-21, 23-25 and 25-23. Axtell handed the Raiders a two-set, 20-25 and 21-25, loss. It took Alma three sets, 16-25, 25-22 and 21-25, to put away Lawrence-Nelson. The Raiders host Superior at Lawrence today (Thursday). The Raiders travel to Friend Tuesday for a match with Exe...
Superior high school golfers Bella Henderson and Rayne Biltoft competed at the Doniphan-Trumbull Invitational last Tuesday. The 18-hole event was played over the Indianhead course at Grand Island. Biltoft finished with a round of 125. Henderson competed in the junior varsity bracket and carded a round of 78 for nine holes. The golfers return to the links today (Thursday) for the Bruning-Davenport-Shickley Invitational being played over the Hidden Hills course at Geneva. The golfers return to Indianhead in Grand Island, Tuesday, for a dual...
It was a long bus ride to Howells for the Lawrence-Nelson Raiders for their first game of the season. It was an even longer ride home after falling 36-8 to the Howells-Dodge Jaguars. Howells-Dodge sported a 14 point lead after the first quarter. The Raiders scored their lone touchdown in the second period. They pulled off a successful two-point conversion but trailed 20-8 at the half. The Raiders defense remained porous as the Jaguars added eight points in both the third and fourth quarters to pull away for the 36-8 win. Wyatt Frey, the...
When I started in this business, 54 years ago, there were companies that specialized in arranging trade outs. In exchange for advertising space, the company would provide the newspaper with a product. I took advantage of one such offer in the fall of 1974 and traded advertising space for a cruise in the Bahamas. That was the only exchange I participated in. It may be a good thing that I was disappointed for it has been decades since anyone offered such an exchange and I don’t believe I am missing out. The cruise wasn’t what I expected....
In the early 1960s, ABC aired a sports anthology show called “Wide World of Sports” where viewers were treated to the “thrill of victory and agony of defeat.” It came on every Saturday evening and my whole family settled in to watch. Mom would prepare a smorgasbord meal ahead of the show. In spring and summer, there would be potato salad, sliced leftover meat (ham, chicken, roast beef and meatloaf), bread (to make sandwiches), lettuce, tomatoes, celery, onions, carrots, radishes, green peppers, olives (green and ripe), pickles (bread...
Autumn . . . Ya, I know that season is not quite here yet, but last weekend sure made me feel like it was. No, I not talking about the weather, I’m talking about the Fall Sports Season. It was a difficult summer for me. I no longer get three daily newspapers and I haven’t gotten into reading all the sports news on the computer, so when high school and college sports got started last weekend, I was happy. The L-N Raider football team lost their game, but I thought they played well and better things will happen. The L-N Raider volleyball...
Q: Does being saved mean the same thing as going to heaven? A: In many churches the term “being saved” will typically mean that a person has confessed their sins and received salvation from eternal death through faith in Christ. One result of this is we go to heaven when we die. So I guess we could say that going to heaven is a part of being saved. But let me expand on the subject of salvation in a couple of ways so we can gain more context and clarity on how the term “saved” is used in church and in Scripture. The first thing I want...
High school freshmen have a lot less to beware of starting their school year than the freshmen did years back. Back in the day there were sneaky seniors who couldn’t wait for high school freshmen initiation to arrive at the start of a new school year. That was just the thing to do back then when the freshmen class got plenty of attention. It was considered as sort of a “right of passage” by all of the high school students. After all, the sophomores, juniors and even the seniors had to go through the dreaded Initiation Day, and all knew...
On Friday, Superior's Central National Bank (CNB) ag loan officer and branch president, Richard (Rich) Nelson, retired after 52 years in the banking industry. CNB held a celebration for Rich at the local branch where employees, customers and family gave him their congratulations and best wishes. Also, present to give Rich their regards, were bank executives: Sara Girard, chief executive officer, Robert Munson, Junction City bank president, Mike Munson, general counsel, Ed Meekins, board member,...
Lovewell State Park is sponsoring a 3D Archery Shoot event Sunday. Registration will be at the state park archery range located just north of Cottonwood Campground, 9 to 10 a.m. A $10 donation is suggested to enter. Donations are utilized for replacing targets when needed. A Steel Deer Competition will begin at noon, with a $5 donation suggested to participate and cash payback to the winner. The 3D targets will be set up on the walk-thru course from Friday through Sunday for self-guided practices, bring your own equipment. Sunday is also a...
Seven sponsoring agencies provided the funding for a soil health tour, last Tuesday to Wine Glass Ranch, Imperial, Nebraska. This ranch is the 2022 Leopold Conservation Award recipient for the State of Nebraska. During the ride to the ranch Troy Munsch, KACD-ADM, Brian Sorensen, KAWS-WRAPS, and Jeremy Jacobs, NRCS, presented information oncover crop payment options, livestock watering options and conservation practices available for cost-share. Logan Pribbeno, the 5th gener- ation family member...
