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The highway which passes The Superior Express office has been unusually quiet in recent days. It seems like fewer local people have been visiting the office, fewer grain trucks have been rolling by traveling between field and elevator. The weather... Full story

Hastings, Neb –South Heartland District Health Department (SHDHD) and area vaccine providers are finalizing local protocols and documentation so they may administer booster doses of Moderna and Janssen vaccines to interested South Heartland...

Monday evenings Superior City Council opened with a moment of silence in recognition of the horrific events of Thursday. The meeting was unsually subdued as not a single resident of the community other than this newspaper’s reporter, city staff...

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) and the Mitchell County Sheriff’s Office are investigating after a suspect was found dead Monday following a standoff at a residence near Glen Elder. On Saturday, Oct. 23, at approximately noon, the...

With the Mankato City Council election approaching, the Jewell County Record presented each candidate with the same four questions, giving each candidate the same amount of time to respond. The four questions were: What are your plans for our...

As we approach the end of October, for many the high school sports season is winding down, the Labor Day holiday is a distant memory and it is time to get out and do something different. Voila! It is time for Halloween, a time for costumes and...

The USD 107 Board of Education met Oct. 11. President Kenny Mizner called the regular meeting to order. Those present were: Kenny Mizner, Brenden Wirth (Zoom), Marc Grout (Zoom), Brandon Hollerich, Rex Boley, Sam Meyers and Janet Higer. Guests were...

The Burr Oak Community will be hosting a trunk or treat event in Veterans Park on Sunday with a Halloween Parade starting at 5 p.m. The second annual Burr Oak Haunted Trail was held Saturday at the Community Center Park.. The Bubbling Cauldron with...

Thirty-two Class D-2 Eight Man Football teams began their journey in the State Playoff system last Thursday. Among those 32 teams there were four games where the lower seeded team won. Unfortunately, for Lawrence- Nelson players and fans, the... Full story

The three members of the Rock Hills High School cross country team attempted to qualify for the state meet Saturday over the 5K Centralia Lake course in Centralia. Trystyn Reynolds and Kobi Bowers, freshmen, joined senior Kit Wagner for the race....

The Rock Hills High School football team closed out the regular season portion of their schedule with a 52-6 loss to St, John’s-Tipton at Beloit Friday. The game was called with 10:07 remaining in the third period because of the 45-point mercy...

The two runners who qualified for the state cross country meet from the Superior High School boys and girls cross country teams, Laci Kirchhoff and Hunter Mazzulla, competed in the 5K race over the Kearney Country Club course at Kearney Saturday....

The Lawrence-Nelson football team exited the Class D-2 football playoffs with their 60-20 loss to the Sandhills-Thedford Knights at Dunning Thursday. The Raiders were unable to thwart the Sandhills-Thedford running game. The Knights ground out 291...

The L-N Lady Raiders finished the regular season of volleyball last week with a victory over Franklin. The 3-0 win gave the girls a won/loss record of 15 wins, 14 losses on the season. They prepare to play in the Sub-District tournament this week....

The topsy-turvy season of the Rock Hills High School volleyball team concluded Saturday with their elimination from post-season play with their two-set loss, 9-25 and 13-25, to Thunder Ridge to Osborne Saturday at the first round sub-state...

Recently I saw a 1950s era Ford stationwagon fully restored to “as new” condition. As a part of the restoration, the stationwagon had white sidewall tires. When I was growing up in Superior, white sidewall tires were popular. These tires cost...

Presenting Biblical answers to tough questions Q: Why does the Catholic Bible have more books than the NIV Bible? Why aren’t they the same? Which set of books is actually the complete word of God? A:  The process of identifying which writings...

It’s the sign of the times. Some of the sayings and words we used years ago might get a blank look if used today. Here are a few of those back-in-time sayings and words that have given way to the modern times. The word “baloney” or...

It seems like everything I’ve tried to do this week has gone completely wrong. We had a water leak at the money pit, a valve to be exact. I wanted to replace it and couldn’t. Jacob tried, then George tried, and notta. We couldn’t get any...

I mentioned earlier that I was reading a book about Harry Truman and I have now finished all 1,000 pages and greatly enjoyed the book. I learned a number of things I did not know about the man. In general, he was a much more of a liberal than what...

Friends in Superior have learned of death last week of Kathie Jensen, a resident of Vacouver, Wash. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Beck and a former resident of Superior. A family member said it appeared her heart gave out after a...

Diana Dale (Dilley) Goebel, 86, died Oct. 17. She was born Sept. 4, 1935, at Lebanon, Kan., to Thelma (Rice) and Orville Dilley. She received her formal education attending Cora country school and graduated from the Lebanon High School. She was...

Mary Beth (Reiss) Bruning was born on a farm near Belvidere, on April 14, 1929, to Paul and Amy (Babka) Reiss. Midwife Mary Spickelmier was set to do the delivery, but since Mary was breach, Dr. Bancroft was summoned from Hebron. Dr. Bancroft...

Donna J. Pruitt, 94, daughter of James H. Lewis and LoRee L. (Eliott) Lewis was born Feb. 19, 1927, at Newton, and died Oct. 15, at Republic County Hospital, Belleville. After graduating from Belleville High School in 1945 and graduating from the...

Candy L. Sanders, 63, daughter of Robert Allen Dyke and Lucille (Allen) Dyke was born Nov. 4, 1957 at Lee Summit, Mo., and died Oct. 20, at Republic County Hospital, Belleville. Candy was united in marriage to Albert Sanders on Dec. 31, 2002. She...

Richard H.W. Degner, 95, of Hebron, the son of Richard H. and Wilhemina (Rosenkoetter) Degner was born June 2, 1926 in Hebron. He died Thursday, Oct. 21, at Mary Lanning Health Care in Hasting. Richard grew up on a farm by Friedensau, attending...

Roderick “Rod” D. Goff, 57, died Thursday, in Ellsworth, Kan. He was born May 11, 1964 in Beloit, to Benjamin and Irene (Russell) Goff. Rod was the on-site manager of Carrico Implement in Ellsworth. He married Betsy Thompson in Ellsworth on...