Sunday night the St. Stephen’s Altar Society hosted their annual Fall Harvest Soup Supper. Tables were decorated with fall leaves, pumpkins and gourds for fall. Soups and desserts were served and many delicious homemade items were for sale in the C...

The Red Cross will be back to Nelson in two weeks, from 9 to 3 p.m., Friday, Nov. 12. It will be exactly eight weeks since the Red Cross was in Nelson. Therefore, if you donated then, you are again eligible to donate. Can you spare less than an hour...

Florists across central United States will gather more than 20 tons of food for those in need Nov. 8 through 13. Dubbed “Caring Rose Week,” the stores are deeply discounting bouquets of one dozen roses and accepting canned goods as partial pay...

Sandra Borden, Brodstone Memorial Hospital's long-time chief financial officer who recently retired after 45 years of service, was honored with the Nebraska Hospital Association (NHA) Meritorious Service Award this past week. The Meritorious Service...

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 was...

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...

Larry Siebenneicher, 62, son of Eugene and Vera (Koerwitz) Siebenneicher was born on Feb. 12, 1959, in Deshler. He died Oct. 16, 2021 in Lincoln, Neb. Larry was united in marriage to Kristine Benker on March 4,1978. Larry worked at Reinke...

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...

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...

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...

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 Feb. 14,...

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...

Timing is the key. They say it is hard to beat any team three times in a season and we’ve seen plenty of examples of that over the years. However, we get a whole new chance this year. The Class D-2 Sub-District tournaments began Monday evening and L...

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 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 r...

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 qualifier....

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....