Week of November 7, 2024
Week of November 7, 2024
While there were few local races, the Nebraska Secretary of State predicted more than 75 percent of the state's eligible voters would cast ballots in the Presidential Election held Tuesday. Personal observation of Nuckolls County polling places indicated that prediction was probably on target. Because of current post office schedules, it was not possible to include the results in this week's edition of your newspaper. However, when the unofficial results were available for Nuckolls County they...
Dani Winkers, Nelson, exercised her right to vote by dropping her ballot into the Nuckolls County Courthouse dropbox, as her dog watched Sunday afternoon. Winkers is active in her community. The dropbox has been visited by many since early voting has begun. Working the Nuckolls County election are (from left) Royce Schott, Janet Watts, Kathy Essink, Brenda Schott, and Linda Tucker. They've seen a high voter turnout this year and anticipate this... Full story
Barbara Jeffs, Nelson, is proud of her family. Out of five of her brothers, four of them have served honorably in the U.S. Army. Barbara's father, Alfred Jeffs, a Nelson native, served in the air force and a great aunt (Phoebe McCarthy) served in World War II alongside leading military personnel. After the war was over, she worked alongside the ambassadors of the United states. She has been to lots of countries in the world and when visiting her home, you can see items from all the countries...
The Superior High School volleyball team was dotted with nail-biters this week, but their persistence paid off. With a win over Bruning-Shickley-Davenport, they emerged as the subdistricts D1-7 winner. This qualified them for the D1 district finals. Saturday's win over Bruwell lets them advance to the state show. It was their first district win since 2019. The Wildcats were seeded number two in this un-district fray behind number one seed Bruning-Davenport Shickley. Superior was ranked number...
The Eli-Saline Cardinals ended the Rock Hills football team post-season hopes with a 56-8 defeat at Brookville, Friday. The Grizzlies offense never materialized and the Cardinals offense was too productive to slow down. Isaiah Ridgeway scored the lone Rock Hills touchdown on the ground. Christian Wurm added the two-point conversion. The Grizzlies ended the season with a 5-4 record. It was the final Rock Hills football game for seniors Ridgeway, Wurm, Cooper McDill, Eli Vance, Nate Meyers, Camden Ward, Jevan Herfel and Aaron...
Stories about DIY projects are among my favorite topics. Each year, at the Superior Public Library book sale, I look for “How to Books.” Monday I came across a story about how to repurpose tuna cans. When the newspaper bought 35mm film in 100 foot rolls, I repurposed all the metal cans which held the rolls of film. I found they were good for storing small quantities of fasteners like bolts, screws and nails for the cans fit inside the drawers we once used to store metal plates. Each can was 3.75 inches in diameter and just more than 1.5...
I have always been a “C” student. My biggest problem seems to be that I must fully understand a subject before I grasp the concept. My understanding seems to take longer than the average student. No matter how hard I study, I can only grasp a small part until I have all the pieces. The parts I grasp are enough to give me a “C”. When I was a senior in high school, my English teacher, Mrs. K., was very challenging, even to the best students. In the poetry section, we learned about many different styles of poetry. My favorite style was...
As I write this, it’s Election Day tomorrow! People have either gone to the polls to vote early, filled out and mailed them in, or will head to the polling places tomorrow. This election time has been a whirlwind. A time of conflicts, a bunch of promising proposals, name calling back and forth, a trying time for sure. When this newspaper edition comes out, the election will be all over, or will it? Will the ballots all be counted? Will there be some last minute findings to question the findings? Will there be riots not accepting the...
The late Victor Kuhlmann was a well-known Superior businessman having been the operator of two popular drive-in ice cream stores, Vic's Drive-In in a former filling station at 15th and Idaho and the Kurly Kone on East Third Street. After leaving the drive-in business, he operated Earl Cowger's wholesale house and served as a traveling salesman for F&A Sales of Concordia. While many knew Vic Kuhlmann, few knew much about his World War II service experience. Like many area men of his age, he...
November is National Family Literacy Month. The national event began in 1994. Desire Tobey Sears Chapter NSDAR joins with libraries and literacy organizations in promoting family literacy and Family Literacy Month. Why a Family Literacy Month? Because early involvement of parents and family, talking reading, writing, and thinking with young children is key to developing solid literacy skills. The stronger those skills are the stronger a child's language, literacy and reading skills will be....
