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Meet the Lost Needle Quilters
Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting with the talented women of Nelson’s own Lost Needle Quilters. The group is so named since they believed they spent more time on the floor looking for lost needles than they did quilting. These women have...
After 3 year COVID delay pastor visits Holy Land
For Jon Albrecht, pastor of the Living Faith Fellowship in Superior, a long awaited dream to visit the Holy Land, became a reality early this year. He plans to publicly report on the experience and...
Superior Good Samaritan aide travels path to administrator
Construction of the Good Samaratan Society's, Superior, long-term care facility began the fall of 1962. Since then only two staff members have come up through the ranks to become administrators of...
Meet the Lost Needle Quilters of Nelson
By If you ever wonder why the same vehicles are parked near the Nelson Community Center on Monday afternoons, just ask someone in town. He or she will most likely know that it is the quilting women...
7 week courtship leads to 48+ year marriage
As many readers of this newspaper know, I like writing feature stories, especially feel good stories. I really like to write about couples and share their beautiful stories. For the past couple years, I've asked several couples if they would be inter...
Love your heart
Michele Bever executive director SHDHD It’s the month of Love! We often associate February with hearts. We express our love for someone with a heart-shaped card or candy box, we sign our name with a heart, or add heart icons to our phone...
A wedding can create interest in economic development
By the time this column gets published, my daughter will be married. That got me thinking about weddings as economic development and people attraction. When I was married 20 years ago, I did the same thing my daughter is doing. I was married in the...
Residents share unusual stories
This is the time of year we often think of past memories. Some as good and some not so good. Avis Shaw recalls her brother-in-law, Cecil, and his wife, June, came to visit the farm quite often. They stopped by one summer day; it must have been a...
December's frigid weather freezes red shirt
In response to December’s frigid weather, a Fairbury student’s frozen shirt video posted on the internet is going viral. Brendon Runge, a senior at Fairbury High School, posted the video on Friday. It shows him holding a wet shirt out in the...
Christmas: The Hope of The World
On the eve of history's first Christmas, it was a dark time for the Jewish people. Their land was occupied by the Roman Empire. The Lord God had not spoken to them for hundreds of years. Heaven's...
The Perfect Gift
The perfect gift By Teraesa Bruce We have all been there, searching the stores for the perfect gift. We are often left disappointed and settling on something at the last minute that’s not quite as rewarding as what we were hoping for. Sometimes,...
2 Scandinavian students attend Superior High School
Tova Lestander and Eivind-Johan (EJ) are International exchange students who have chosen to come to the United States to experience a new culture. They have some things in common but mostly they are both from the cold climates of Sweden and Norway. T...
EJ (AKA) known as Eivind-Johan, a foreign exchange student
EJ (AKA) known as Eivind-Johan, a foreign exchange student is living with Shannon, Jenny, Truet and Callum McCord during his yearlong stay in Superior....
Bill of Rights Day observed this week
Bill of Rights Day is observed on Dec. 15. Dec. 15, 1791, saw the ratification of the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution itself had been accepted by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention on...
A time to give thanks
For residents of the United States today is a day set asside to be thankful the origins of which can be traced back to the Pilgrims The event Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving"...
Harnessing the Plains wind has long been an inventor's dream
Humankind has harnessed the wind as a power source for thousands of years. Wind powered the ships which sailed the world’s oceans, seas and lakes. Wind powered mills which ground grain for flour. Wind powered pumps used to irrigate land and drain l...
A Time for Thanks
This Thanksgiving season, it’s easy to have a pessimistic perspective about the current state of the world. If you’re feeding a gathering of 10 people, a traditional turkey dinner will cost 20 percent more this year, according to an American...
Lincoln girl receives one-handed saxophone through UNK program
UNK Communications You can see the joy on Claire Bahensky's face when she plays her new saxophone. Music makes the 10-year-old Lincoln girl happy. It's something she discovered earlier this year, when students at St. Joseph Catholic School were...
Case displays veteran's medals
To see this individual around town, doing his daily activities, you may never know what extraordinary things he has done in his past. That can be said of many people, but this man is a hero to the United States of America. John Combs was drafted in...
Griffins keeping watch
The Superior Auditorium has been at the heart of the Superior community since city voters approved issuing bonds for its construction in July, 1935. Griffins are legendary creatures with the body, tail and back legs of a lion, the head and wings of a...
Calvin Bohnert Memorial Corn Picking Day
It is November and in Jewell County. That means Corn Picking Days! The late Calvin Bohnert started the event six years ago. He and friends had talked about it for years but one day, Bohnert said, "I...
Local woman touts benefits of breast cancer screening
When she went in for her regular mammogram screening for breast cancer, Carissa Uhrmacher did not expect something abnormal to show up on her results. “I went in for just a regular mammogram and didn’t think too much about it because I’d had...
2022 Nebraska Passport completed
For those who think they can not take a long vacation, they need to check out what Nebraska has to offer. When COVID hit and the quarantines started, I looked for alternative ways to vacation. I...
Couple traveling with pop-up camper on stilts
While taking the usual evening walk through Lincoln Park, an unusual sight seemed to spring out of nowhere. At close range it looked something like a camper on stilts. In fact, it was a rooftop camper on a metal frame that gave a new meaning to high...
Ivan Frost receives Quilt of Valor
Brenda Frost Carlson pieced, quilted and bound a Quilt of Valor to honor her father, U. S. Navy veteran Ivan Frost. The quilt was awarded at a family ceremony on September 4, 2022, at Brenda's home in Sutton, Neb. Ivan Frost and his wife, Leta, are...
