Property valuation changes shocking Superior owners
Property owners in the City of Superior received innocuous looking yellow postcards in the mail recently. Upon closer inspection, shock set in for most as they viewed the updated valuations. How hefty were the changes? One landowner was informed...
Truck crashes into Dollar General Store
The Superior Dollar General store had a new ventilation system installed Saturday when a pickup truckcrashed through the east side of the building. The driver said her foot slipped off the brake...
Cregg Jeffery retires
After 29 years on the job with Rolling Hills Electric Cooperative, Cregg Jeffery has decided to retire. He began his working career for Mid-America Dairymen at Superior. In 1994 he joined the Jewell-Mitchell Rural Electric Association’s tree...
Mountain Men demonstrate fur tradersʼ skills
A steady stream of people, many of them children,visited with mountain men at a rendezvous at the Pawnee Indian Museum near Republic, Saturday. Six mountain men had arrived Friday evening and camped...
With a guess, Jensen wins the tab prize
About a month ago members of the Nelson American Legion Post reported 50 pounds of pull tabs collected at the Nelson Legion over an indeterminate length of time had been delivered to the Ronald McDonald House in Omaha. At that time, it was also...
County board delays Bostwick area bridge replacement
The Nuckolls County Board of Commissioners met at the county courthouse in Nelson, Monday. The county road department superintendent outlined the priority bridge projects for the upcoming year. It was agreed that the material bid for several of the...
15 communities hosting interns
For the fifth consecutive year, the Nebraska Community Foundation has a new class of Hometown Interns. This group of interns includes 21 college students in 15 different Nebraska communities, including Arthur, Deshler, Diller, Exeter, Friend,...
Kohmetcher graduates from West Point
The West Point Military Academy in West Point, New York, is the oldest military school in the United States. Like its similar schools for the other branches of the military, being able to attend the school is no small fete. Requirements are tough....
Morris wins Edgar annual poker run
The Edgar American Legion Post held their 17th annual Poker Run Sunday. The route covered 186 miles, starting and ending at the Edgar Legion, with stops at Guide Rock, Concordia, and Hebron. All...
Rain dampens Nelson Rubies sight seeing ride
Thanks to event planners Pat Drexel, Bonnie Jensen, Charlene Schultz, Jaynie Spirk, Lois Hamel and Sue Burge, the Nelson Rubies enjoyed a fun filled day on May 25. The group met at the Nelson...
L-N golf team brings home 5th place honors at state
(Editorʼs Note: We apologize as this report was inadvertently missed.) The Lawrence-Nelson school history is not long in terms of years, but the 2023 L-N Golf Team saw to it that the history of the golfing teams improved, again. The five man team...
Summer golf camp in Superior
The Superior Country Club hosted the annual Superior Youth Golf Camp last Tuesday and Wednesday. The weather cooperated for the 36 attendees. Participants at the camp came from the age groups of five...
Editor's Notebook
This has been a week of both rejoicing and sadness. Thursday morning got off to a sad start when Craig Barfknecht called to report his mother, a longtime employee of this newspaper, had died. Irene was the last living member of the crew that helped...
Love my Crazy life
So we bought a new car. No, I’m not having a midlife crisis, it may look as though I am, but I promise I am not. It’s a Mini Cooper, and it’s red with a white top. It’s a cute little thing with an awful lot of get up and go for a four...
Country Roads
Thoughts often take us back to happy times in our youth, with childhood friends and classmates. There were many birthday parties and slumber parties, where several girl friends would get together and have lots of laughs and fun times that will...
Ask a Pastor Column
Q: The Bible tells us not to store up treasures on the earth. Does that mean we should never buy anything nice? A: The instruction not to store up treasures on earth comes within a passage of advice from Jesus about money and worries (Matthew...
Puffs
This week we are writing before the June 6 anniversary of D-Day. Seems the date receives less attention as we get further from 1944 when the invasion of Europe began. In one of the largest battles ever to take place, approximately 135,000 men ended...
The changing face of Jewell County's Methodist Church
In recent days, the media has reported on the split in the United Methodist Church. The split is real and it has had an impact on all United Methodist Churches in the area. Those reports seem to...
Linda Coleen Wyatt
Linda Coleen Wyatt, 70 of Bayfield CO., formerly of Hardy, died unexpectedly May 7 prior to scheduled knee surgery at St. Lukes Hospital in Lakewood, Co. She was Born August 9, 1952, at Brodstone...
Irene Barfknecht
Irene Rose Barfknecht, the oldest of four daughters born to Henry and Dora (Siemers) Hashage, was born on May 15, 1930, on a farm west of Nelson, Nebraska. She died June 1, 2023, at the Brodstone...
Mary Herbek
Mary LaVerne Herbek, 96, of Hastings died June 2. Mass of Christian burial will be at 10:30 this morning (Thursday) at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Deweese with Father Jamie Hottovy celebrating. Burial will follow at Sacred Heart...
Loreen Bird
Loreen Faye Bird, the first daughter of Cecil Russell and Irene (Bisbee) Figgins, was born April 10, 1934, on a farm southwest of Northbranch. She died Oct. 20, 2022, at the Heritage Care Center in Red Cloud. She attended the Walnut country school...
Phyllis Purcell
Phyllis Darnell Purcell, the daughter of Earl and Maude (Lyne) McGeary, was born Dec. 17, 1931, in Lincoln County, Kansas. She died Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at the Jewell County Hospital Long Term Care...
Karis Kuhlmann
Karis Valjean Kuhlmann of Chester, the son of Charles and Ella (Weers) Kuhlmann was born on a farm near Chester on Dec. 1, 1937. He died June 1 at his home near Chester. He attended a country school and graduated from Chester High School in 1955....
New building going up at fairgrounds
A barn is under construction at the Nuckolls County Fairgrounds. It will used to house the fair's poultry and rabbits exhibits. It will also be used for the poultry and rabbit show. The location of...