The Superior Express -

There will soon be a new mayor in Superior. The current mayor, Sonia Schmidt, notified members of the Superior City Council via email Monday morning her plan to submit her resignation when the council meets Monday evening. City employees learned of...

Tuesday is primary election day in Nebraska and the polling places are to be open as usual. However, election officials say it won’t be business as usual. Finding workers to man the places has been particularly challenging this year. The problem...

In this area there has been only a light relaxing of the COVID-19 shutdown order. Effective this week some medical procedures are permitted. With restrictions funerals and church services may be held. However the other restrictions remain in place...

On Monday, South Heartland District Health Department (SHDHD) officials reported the total number of cases in the four-county health district as 221, including 203 in Adams County, 13 in Clay County, 5 in Webster County, and zero in Nuckolls County....

For the last 44 years a 14 foot tall, 150 ton press, owned by Reinke Shakes, has been standing in what was once the Yost Lumber Yard, of Hebron and manufactures shingles. The press stamped its last shingle on April 24. This stamping press was built...

There will be a government commodities distribution for families meeting income guidelines for the Jewell-Randall-Ionia area at 1 p.m., on Thursday, May 14, at the Jewell Apartments Commons Area, 107 S. Lincoln. The following foods are scheduled to...

Filing deadline for the primary election is noon on June 1 for Democrat and Republican candidates for Jewell County and township offices. Primary election is Aug. 4. General election is Nov. 3. The following have filed for office as of May 4. County...

On Friday, the Jewell County commissioners held a special meeting to discuss Jewell County’s next phase of operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioners decided to continue operations of the Jewell County Courthouse according to the March...

To show support for the Lawrence-Nelson Class of 2020, Kylee Haba and Sheila McCartney decorated the window in the high school library. Drive by and check it out. Windows at the elementary school in Lawrence have also been decorated to show support...

Deshler Public School is going to have a “Virtual Graduation” at 4 p.m. May 9. People can log onto STRIV TV to watch it. The web address is: https://striv.tv./channel/deshler/...

Plans for parades through Lawrence and Nelson to honor members of the 2020 graduating class have been scuttled. The event was to have been held on Saturday....

This Mother’s Day we salute the moms who continue to endure sheltering at home or lockdown as some refer to it. The mom that never thought she would have to home school her children or the mom who knows full well now, she was never meant to be a...

In times of emergency, misperceptions can prove deadly. That’s certainly the case today, amid widespread belief that COVID-19 mainly threatens older Americans. In reality, those of any age suffering from an underlying health condition are at...

Pastor Jim Rice provided the service Sunday for Ionia, Jewell Trinity and Harmony United Methodist churches via video because of thecorona virus isolation. The video can be viewed on YouTube under “Worship Video for Sunday May 3 2020 James...

A clipping from “The Randall Enterprise,” Sept. 15, 1923 When I was a young man of 25, I came with a party of friends overland in three wagons from Iowa to Kansas. We arrived and camped near a creek east of Jewell on April 5, 1871. After looking...

I know I wrote about attending virtual meetings last week, but I’m so amazed by the technology I want to write about this week’s experiences. While seated in this newspaper’s front office on Saturday afternoon, I attended the first electronic m...

Some women spend their best shopping days in a dress shop, craft store, a gift shop, fabric store or a culinary store. Now, I enjoy shopping in those stores, too, but my best place to head especially this time of year is a greenhouse or garden center...

Harry Arthur Huge, 82, of Charleston, South Carolina, husband of Reba Kinne Huge died Monday, April 27, 2020. With the current global virus pandemic and its attendant social restrictions, his funeral will be scheduled at a time in the future when pan...

Ronald “Ron” Duane Cook was born, May 31, 1936, to Leland and Bernice Cook in Twin Falls, Idaho where his dad worked as a lineman for the phone company for a short time. Most of Ron’s younger years were in Ionia, Kansas with and near his...