Week of November 21, 2024
Week of November 21, 2024
The City of Superior has a new mayor. Last Tuesday following the resignation of Mayor Chris Peterson, Carrie Lemke automatically advanced from council president to mayor. Lemke is a longtime member of the council representing the community's first ward. Peterson is currently employed in another community and has found it difficult to meet all the obligations of his job and those of mayor. He earlier resigned from the Superior Fire Department. When submitting his resignation, he expressed his...
Scouting 4 Food participants were delighted with this year's response to their food drive for the Nuckolls County Food Pantry. It is thought to hold a record for the most food donations the program has ever generated for the Nuckolls County Food Pantry. The Superior Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts collected the donations on October...
The ladies of Sacred Heart parish in Lawrence hold a long and honorable history of church support, one of which is an annual fund raising event held in autumn of each year. Over the years, the name has changed from being a "Hunter's Dinner," to the "Smorgasbord" and now to the Fall Festival. Whatever the name, the event brings parish members together for fellowship, for fun and for a chance to supply funds to help pay for the many charitable events the ladies support and to support the parish...
editorʼs notebook When I was an undergraduate and graduate student at Kansas State University in the 1960s, various business ventures dictated I return to Superior nearly every weekend. Other students learned of my regular travel and asked for lifts to and from school. Most were northern Jewell County residents but there was one girl from rural Miltonvale and occasionally a student from further into Nebraska would ride to Superior where they were met by a friend or family member to continue their trip home. One of those riders was the late...
Deciding to attend my class reunion, I hitched up my trailer and headed east for Pennsylvania. I left on a Tuesday so I could spend Wednesday with my cousins in Missouri, leave Thursday and arrive at my campsite Friday with plenty of time to visit some friends in Pennsylvania before the Saturday event. All was going according to plan as I left Missouri Thursday morning. It was after dark by the time I reached Columbus, Ohio, so I decided to get gasoline and find a spot to stop for the night. Unfortunately, I picked a poor exit for getting...
Q: Starting with Adam and Eve, did people marry their siblings in the Old Testament? If so, why? A: This is a question that I have often been asked. First let me say the historical account of Genesis does not explain where Cain got his wife, or why individuals like Abraham married close relatives (Abraham married his half-sister, Sarah), or whether it was permissible for them to do so. In short, the Bible does not directly answer this question. Because the authoritative word of God is silent on the subject we are free to come up with a...
If you are a customer of Glenwood – you most likely received your new’ telephone directory in the last week or so. I got mine and quickly admired the picture on the cover. (Glenwood always asks for customers’ pictures to be submitted and uses one of them for the cover of the book. Well, the latest book cover has a ‘reddish/orange’ Nebraska sunset picture captured by Selena (Faimon) Laughlin. Beautiful picture. A O I’ve spent some time lately at the Tiffany Square Care Center in Grand Island. The other day a couple of young women...
Pheasants Forever Annual Benefit Banquet was held on Friday. The banquet went from 5:30 to 9 p.m., and was held at the Nuckolls County Fairgrounds. Many attended the huge event, and the evening was filled with events. Pheasants Forever is a non-profit organization organized to conserve Nebraska's wildlife habitat and traditions. The organization's primary mission is the conservation of pheasants, quail, and other wildlife through habitat improvements, public access, education and conservation...
In November of 1934, Nuckolls County newspapers reported workers associated with the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp located on the Nuckolls County Fairgrounds were building a dam on the Paul Huskinson farm northwest of the Ideal Cement Company plant. The new dam was on the site of a previous dam built sometime before 1885 on what was then part of the Superior Cattle Company ranch. A faulty spillway was blamed for the original dam washing out during the heavy rains of 1915. The new dam was to have an improved concrete spillway. The original...
