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Ben Price, the son of Carla and John Price, Jr. and a 2018 graduate of Superior High School, has returned to Superior to open a business Price attended Southeast Community College in Lincoln. He earned his diploma in welding on Dec. 19, 2019. After graduation he returned home to Superior to open Lost Creek Welding located at 160 West Third Street. He purchased the building from his grandfather, John Price, Sr. The buildingwas constructed in 1941 to house the machine shop of Stacey Barker. In...
Cole Epley has realized his dream of returning home to Nuckolls County to live and work. Epley is a 2014 Lawrence-Nelson High School graduate. He has three younger sisters, Hallie, Emma and Hayden. He was raised in the Nora community. After high school graduation he attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, earning a degree in ag economics. In 2015, while attending UN-L, he began working for Futuresone, a company dealing in futures trading. He worked in the sales department. He graduated...
An investigation was launched to determine the cause of an ongoing fire at the Sedan elevator in northern Nuckolls County. In the first week of December, elevator workers noted grain in a million bushel bin was getting hot. On Dec. 22, the hot grain became an official fire. After that day Edgar firemen were called several times to battle the fire. Last week the Clay County newspaper published a picture taken on Jan. 5 of smoke billowing from the bin located near the center of the elevator complex. While the possible cause was being...
The Superior Chamber of Commerce has added a new event to the 2020 calendar called the Business Expo and Job Fair. Sponsored by the Superior Ambassadors, the event will be held at the Superior Estates Winery from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 14. It will feature area businesses. Planners envision the expo and fair as a place where businesses may showcase their products and if they have openings they may also seek employees. Area high school students will be invited to attend and learn more about possible summer jobs, internships and jobs...
In late summer, residents of Superior were asked to respond to an internet based attitude survey conducted by the South Central Economic Development District. The responses have been compiled and a district representative will present the report at a town hall meeting planned for the Vestey Center one week from today (Thursday, Jan. 23). Refreshments will be available at 5:30 with the presentation starting at 6 p.m. Following the attitude survey report, there will be a question answer session with regard to the special election that will seek...
With more sightings of mysterious drones flying around rural areas across Nebraska and now into Kansas in the dark, Matt Waite, director of the drone journalism lab located within the University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications, has been answering a lot of inquiries about them. What follows is some guidance for your own local coverage. He said, “There is a legitimate mystery here. Multiple people in multiple places have reported seeing multiple large drones Ð es...
The Red Cross Blood Mobile arrived in Nelson Friday morning. The weather started out fairly nice but by noon the snow came. Thankfully it didn't get much and most of it just blew away. Unfortunately several of the donors had to cancel because they weren't feeling well. Fifty-five units were collected which was just short of the goal of 58. The Red Cross was pleased with the dedication of all of the donors. The Blood Bank is running low this time of year. Because of the weather and being cold...
At Hebron, the Superior Lady Cats played the Thayer Central Titans Friday. The Cat’s record was 8-1 while the Titan’s was 6-3 before the game. The Cats lead in the first two quarters, leaving the halftime score at 27-22. In the third quarter, the Titans got the lead and because of the assertive defense played by the Titans, the Cats could not get it back. The Ladycats lost the game with a final score of 42-48. The Superior boys basketball team earned their first win of the season when they bea...
On Saturday, the Wildcats swept the Fillmore Central Panthers at home, winning all four games of the night including the boys and girls junior varsity and varsity matches. Before the game, the Ladycats were 8-2 and the Panthers were 10-2 losing to St.Cecilia and Adam Central. The Panthers were missing some important players to injuries. This was a hard fought physical game that was close all four quarters. The Ladycats won with a final score of 32-48. The Wildcat boys basketball team played the...
Jan. 28 is the Farmers and Ranchers Cow-Calf College at the US Meat Animal Research Center near Clay Center. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. with program beginning at 9:55 a.m. Topics include: Forage Sampling, Understanding Annual Cow Costs, Questions to Ask Your Vet before Calving Season, Blockchains: Connecting Consumers with their Food (IMI Global), and Alternative Meats and Alternative Statistics: What the data says. There is no charge and meal is provided. It’s best to pre-register to save time and you can do so at htt...
Literature classes and reading how noted authors described foggy days served to spark my interest in trying to produce a photograph that shows the beauty of a foggy day or night. I’ve seldom captured with a camera what I feel when the area is blanketed in fog. My emotions run the full gamut from terror to delight. As a college student, I sometimes went for a foggy campus walk just to see how the fog changed the campus and the students. I have little interest in returning to the campus to watch an athletic event but I would like to return for w...
The subject given to create a story at a Writer’s Club meeting was “What is the oldest thing you have and why do you still have it?” For me it is an old and cherished quilt. It is nothing like today’s quilts which are made using brightly colored material in artistic patterns and mostly stitched using a quilting machine. This quilt is made with muted colors that have been softened with age. The tiny squares are of aged cotton. Some were cut from cotton patterned flour sacks. The stitches that connects the squares together are short and expertl...
Henry John “Hank” Piper, 75, of Wamego, Kan., died surrounded by his entire family, Friday, Jan. 10, at Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan, Kan. He had been a long-time resident of the community. Hank was born on July 6, 1944, in York, Neb., the son of Elmer and Eva Kohlohf Piper. He attended local schools and graduated from high school in 1962 at Montrose,. He then attended technical school. Hank served for three years in the United States Army. Hank worked as a truck driver driving a semi ove... Full story
Roger T. Stone, 73, died Sunday, at the Hastings hospital. His funeral was held Wednesday morning at Trinity Lutheran Church, Hildreth, Neb., with Pastors Kari Foss and Marcia Dorn officiating. Burial with military rites by Kent Kailey American Legion Post Lawrence, Neb., and the Army National Guard HonorÕs Team was in Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery, rural Hildreth. Merten-Butler Mortuary, Blue Hill, Nebraska is in charge of arrangements. Roger (Rod) was born on July 4, 1946, to John T. and Mable M. (Moore) Stone in Clarendon, Texas. He graduated... Full story
Norman Lee Hoevet, 83, the son of Harold J. and Leota B. (Glass) Hoevet was born June 17, 1936, at Fairfield. He died Jan. 9, at Bryan Medical Center West in Lincoln, Neb. Services are pending at this time.... Full story
