The Superior Express -

It has been a slow, multi-year process but finally the first two of Superior’s six Project Boom houses have been completed. A ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the milestone is planned for 10:30 Friday morning near the houses at 210 and 216 West...

The 147th annual Nuckolls County fair is scheduled for early July. 4-H and open class exhibits are to be checked in Thursday, July 7. Friday, July 8, they will be judged. Saturday, July 9, the 4-H horse show opens at 8 a.m. and generally takes most...

The Nuckolls County Board of Commissioners met at the county courthouse in Nelson Tuesday. The meeting was held Tuesday because of Monday’s Juneteenth holiday. The board approved claims from county departments. Bids were opened for steel tubes to...

2022 Jewell County Fair, with the theme Country Pride County Wide, starts Friday, July 8, with the horse show at 8 a.m., poultry and rabbit show begins at 12:30 p.m., and the pet show following. The Adventure Lab, a learning activity, will be from...

On Tuesday morning the Wunderground website reported there had been 989 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nuckolls County and 13 confirmed deaths since the statistics had been kept. The source of the data was said to be the Nebraska Department of...

Brodstone Healthcare and the Superior Auditorium have agreed to expand their partnership to increase access to comprehensive wellness activities. Previously, Brodstone offered a walking club and fitness bootcamp at the auditorium during the winter...

Even though it was a little warm, or hot, everyone came out to compete in the third round of competition at the Elk Creek Country Club in Nelson, Friday evening.  Two additional teams were welcomed  Hunter Holland and Emily Wulf and Richard P....

I’m so excited! We are going to visit Robert at Fort Riley this weekend. I have no idea what we will do, but I told him not to plan anything too extravagant since the traveling and hotel room have more than broken my summer budget. LOL! He said...

A friend’s story shared on a social media site reminded me of my grandmother. My mother regularly drove an automobile. She used a special skill my father taught her to get through the water holes that separated our house on Blauvelt’s Hill and...

Living in a rural community can’t be beat! Volunteering and helping out one another is a regular occurence here. Recently a fund raiser was held in my hometown for its rural fire department, who along with many other area fire departments came...

I keep getting reminders that I’m most likely included in that category of people that some call “old.” Others, kinder I suppose, might use the word “senior” rather than old. Whatever group I’m in, that’s OK, I’ll go with it. Maybe...

Katie Lyn Krupicka (Elting), 55, of Carleton, the daughter of Orval and Esther (Krueger) Elting was born April 13, 1967, in Omaha. She died June 4, at her residence in Carleton. Katie grew up on a farm near Davenport, where her love for animals...

Norma Jean Greenslade, 94, was born on March 16, 1928, to John Duaine Greenslade and Alice Lora (Cardwell) Greenslade in their family home in Scandia. She was baptized and confirmed in the Amana Lutheran Church of Scandia. Norma graduated from...

Rickie Lee Ridder, 72, of Belleville, formerly Hebron, the son of Theodore and Vernetta (Fry) Ridder was born Dec. 15, 1949, in Hebron. He died Sunday, May 22, 2022, at Belleville Care Center in Belleville. Rick grew up in Chester, attending school...

Merlen Ray Schnakenberg, 85, son of George and Edna (Getz) Schnakenberg was born March 29, 1937, in Sedan. He was the fifth of eight children to this marriage, with only a sister and two brothers entering life and establishing the family. Merlen...