Week of January 23, 2025
Week of January 23, 2025
Effective Friday, Jan. 31, Shannon Meier, director of Emergency Management Services (EMS) for Jewell County, will retire from the position which he has held since January 2000. According to Meier, unless the county commissioners find a suitable candidate before Jan. 31, or designate a new hire to assume his current duties, Amber Harding, assistant director of EMS, has the requisite skills to fulfill the requirements satisfactorily of the position Meier now fills. However, Meier expects the...
The City of Nelson was dealing with an ambulance that kept breaking down, and was becoming unreliable. It was at this time the Nelson Rescue Squad proposed buying a new ambulance, the city council agreed to their proposal at the beginning of 2023. Sandra Schendt, Nelson city clerk, began the process of applying for grants in February of 2023. Through her skill and determination, two grants were acquired. The first one for $150,000 and the second one was for $49,999.99. Planning a fund-raiser...
Noah Shipman was in for a surprise Wednesday evening after leaving work at Kiers. When he went out to start his car, he found it wasn't in the employee parking lot across the street from Kiers where he had parked it that afternoon. Shipman, a 17-year-old senior at Rock Hills Junior-Senior High School, had saved money to purchase the 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue while he was working at Bob's of Mankato, where he was a cook for two years. He was able to purchase the car last June. Shipman lives in...
Last week was a busy week for many of Nebraska High School weeks, and the L-N Lady Raiders was among the busy teams. They played three games within five days, earning one victory for the week. After the rough start at the beginning of the season, the Lady Raiders are beginning to work as a team. They have won five of the last eight games and are looking forward to a successful end of the season. L-N – ROCK HILLS (R/H): 39-44: Basketball is a complicated game that has many part. A team often...
Saturday afternoon, the Superior Lady Wildcats moved to 12 - 2 when they won over the Sandy Creek Cougars 49-25 at Sandy Creek. The win was not as easy as the score would suggest. At the half, the Cougars lead 18-17. The game was tied at 21 early in the third quarter, when the Wildcats went on at 28 to 4 run to finish the game. To earn their points, the Cougars hit seven three point shots, one two point shot and two free throws. For some unknown reason, their three point shots ceased to drop...
Friday evening, Superior wrestled at home as part of the Superior Invitational. Nineteen boys teams and 17 girl teams competed. Boys teams included Fairbury, Centennial, Kearney Catholic, Thayer Central, Red Cloud-Blue Hill, Meridan, Johnson County Central, Southern Valley, Sutton, Wilcox-Hildreth, Adams Central, Smith Center, Osborne, Republic County, Sandy Creek, Omaha Concordiaand Exeter-Milligan-Friend and Lawrence-Nelson. Superior boys earned 45.5 points. The top five schools were Fairbury...
Last week was an interesting week of basketball for the L-N Boys' basketball team. First of all, they played three games in a five day span. Secondly, the first game was an over time game. Then, the second game was a double over time game. Most importantly, the boys added to their winning record which now stands at 9-4. That record caught the notice of those writers who make the state wide rankings of high school sports. The biggest notice came with the winning of the game with previously rated...
The Superior Wildcats girls basketball team visited one of the newest schools in Nebraska - Standing Bear High School in Lincoln, easily winning the game 56-33, Saturday. The tempo of the game was strong in favor of Superior, as they played against the girls of Standing Bear with steady and consistent teamwork. Many players contributed to the positive outcome. Coach Chrissy Ehlers said after the game, "We did a good job at getting the ball to Reagan Meyers and that really helped us out because...
The Sandy Creek Cougars establish dominance early in the game Saturday afternoon with Wildcats basketball action at Sandy Creek. They won 60-20. The game started slow, but by the end of the first quarter, Sandy Creek led 17-6. Then outscored the Wildcats 22 to 4 in the second quarter. The game finished with a running clock in the fourth. The Wildcats scored only 10 points in each half. Colten Butler and Dayne Clark both scored 8 points. Mason Korb and DeClan Miller both scored two points. Sandy...
Superior blew past the Heartland Huskies 81-30 last Tuesday. The Wildcats have now won seven contests by 30 points or more this season: Wilber-Claytonia (59) Heartland (51); Meridan (45), St. Patrick (40) and Centennial (31). Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Superior to victory. Reagan Meyers dropped in 24 points and completed 11 rebounds. Sadie Cornell added 19 points and four steals. Halle Bargen added 13 points, Rayne Biltoft 8; Maddie Bargen 5 and Faith Butler, Mia Gardner and Ava Kirchhoff each added...
Close games generally represent evenly matched teams, both of which plan to win. It was overtime, when the Raiders scored eight points and the Grizzlies scored only seven points that finally ended the game last Tuesday night when Lawrence-Nelson traveled to Mankato to play basketball. In the first quarter, it looked as if the Lawrence-Nelson Raiders might easily win. They scored 18 points while the Grizzlies scored only 10. By the end of the second quarter the score was more evenly matched with the Raiders scoring 14 and he Grizzlies scoring...
Rock Hills marched into the game with the Lawrence-Nelson Raider girls with two straight wins. One over Stockton 50-27 on Monday, Feb. 13, and the other Friday, Feb. 10 over St. John’s Tipton 60-58. The Lady Grizzlies added a third win last Tuesday when they won over the Raiders 44-39. Halle Mizner led the offense by posting 17 and picking up 9 rebounds. It was the fourth consecutive games in which Mizner scored at least a third of the Grizzly points. Bethany Simmelink also had an outstanding performance with 17 points, five assists and...
This week the Grizzlies are occupied with the NPL tournament. It is an 11 team mid-season league tournament featuring Sylvan-Lucas, Natoma, Osborne, Lincoln, Rock Hills, Tescott, Pike Valley, Stockton, Thunder Ridge, St. John’s-Tipton and Lakeside. The tournament began Friday with three play-in games for both the boys and girls divisions. The winners advanced to the quarter finals Monday. The semifinals and consolation rounds started Tuesday and will finish Friday. All games are being played in either Lincoln or Tescott. The tournament was...
Saturday afternoon the Superior boys basketball team played at hard faught game in Lincoln against Standing Bear. Edward Naughton, news reporter, said, “The game was hard to watch. Standing Bear played rough, repeatedly fouled Superior, and I personally felt a technical foul or two should have been called by the referee against some of the Standing Bear players or their coach.” Superior had a hard time getting shots to drop and the game ended Standing Bear boys 60, Superior 13 with a running...
When I graduated from college, I decided Montana would be a good place to live. Choosing the destination of Bozeman, I figured I could find a teaching job and my husband could find employment at a farm or ranch. We purchased a used 1962 Ford Galaxy automobile and loaded it solid with as many of our belongings as would fit. On the roof rack we loaded a tent, cooler filled with food and everything we needed to camp our way across the continent. Everything was packed so tight there was a flat surface from the top of the front seat to the rear...
America The Beautiful, God grant His grace on Thee! Monday the 47th President of the United States took the oath of office and began serving this country. Though I’m sure I’ve watched other president inaugurations, it seems maybe this is the only one I was able to watch on television all the way through, from the beginning to end. Before the inauguration, a pianist played one of my favorite hymns, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.” Later one of my favorite singers, Carrie Underwood, sang “America The Beautiful.” All the speeches were...
It’s the time of the year for the introduction of senseless legislation and just because we live in the Heartland we are not immune. Kansas Senate Bill 1 introduced by Sen. Kenny Titus, a Wamego Republican who was elected to the senate in November after serving a term in the Kansas House of Representatives, has introduced a bill that would mandate the State of Kansas remain on standard time the year around. The wisdom of switching back and forth between standard and daylight time has sound arguments on both sides of the issue. But as long...
Q: Who chose and compiled the books of the Bible? A: The simplest way to explain how we got the Bible is to say that the 66 books that make up the Protestant Bible were inspired by God and then recognized by believers; first by Jewish believers in Old Testament times and finally by the early church. Books of the Old Testament were verified by the miraculous works God did through the writers, by supernatural predictions which came to pass, and by conformity to books previously accepted (i.e. the Psalms match the teachings found in...
“Red Dye No. 3.” You have to be of a certain age to remember all the commotion this caused some years ago. Seems it was used in a wide variety of consumer products from cosmetics to food to who knows what else. It was considered a serious cancer risk. I don’t know about you, but I have not heard of Red Dye No. 3 for a lot of years. Up until last week that is. Seems the federal government has now banned the use of the dye from food just this past week. It went on to read that it was just 15 years ago when they banned its use in other,...
The Christmas of 2024 in Jewell County was one of mild and sunny weather. No snow, though some hoar frost on Christmas Day – pretty but no problems. We listened to Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” and Dean Martin sing “The Weather Outside is frightful” but we had none of the cold stuff. Then came the days after New Year’s and plummeting temperatures and snow – some places had 18 inches of it. But even then, we had no real idea of how “frightful” weather could be. Throughout our country’s history, there have been some...
