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LFFCʼs Harvest Festival popular way to annually conclude October
It was approximately 25 degrees outside last Tuesday night (Haloween), so it was good to be in out of the cold. It was warm indoors at the Superior Auditorium for the Fall Harvest Festival sponsored...
The Torch-Red Model T
In January of this year, Paul Hutchinson, known for his jaw-dropping, custom automobiles, finished restoring his 1927 Model T. This torch-red classic has a custom frame and a Chevy 350 engine. The...
A local Halloween Feature for this week
Lance and Tami Sharp have purchased the old Lyon Mansion in Nelson and opened it up to those brave enough to enter. Tami was working when the idea came to her and in mentioned it to a coworker....
1926 painting created in Harrison Township by Cleveland returns to JC
Carl Weeks (1927 – 1995), who was born in Missouri and died in Florida, seemingly had no connection with Jewell County, Kansas. However, he owned a painting created in Jewell County by a Jewell County artist. The painting, “Mother” by Serena...
Hollywood screenwriter returns home
A screenwriter from Los Angeles, with roots in Superior returned to town, this fall, to share the craft of scriptwriting with Superior Elementary School students. It has been a process to create the...
Remembering Oct. 21, 2021
([email protected]) Oct. 21, 2021. A day many of us will not forget. And as much as we could talk about the memories from that day, it's much more important to see "where" we have progressed since...
Pistol Packing Grandma reaches 100
Oh, the stories she can tell! Her grandchildren affectionately call her "pistol packing grandma," said Marion Hill, because when she was younger, she hunted deer, antelope, pheasants and jackrabbits. "It was bounty money. That's how we had money to...
Another JC author: Metz
Jewell County has several authors – ones from the past like, M. Winsor and James A. Scarbrough who wrote The History of Jewell County, Kansas in 1878. Or more recent ones like Erma Parsons Dillon (Burr Oak High School Class of 1952) and Jeri Davis...
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...