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A reminder that Sunday, February 14th, is Valentine’s Day. So it’s time to get or make that special someone a special something. Maybe that “something” is a flower bouquet, a piece of jewelry, a box of chocolates, or a sentimental card. No matter what it will be, it’s the thoughtfulness that will be appreciated. As a child, Valentine’s Day was looked forward to at the Oak Creek Country School. Red and pink paper cut out Valentine’s were made, and put on ribbons or strings that were draped across the walls of the school room. White paper w...
Football fans watching the televised Super Bowl national football championship game Sunday afternoon were surprised when a commercial sponsored by the makers of Jeep motor vehicles included video shot last week in this area. The commercial also explained why strange vehicles were observed in Smith Center and traveling Smith County roads. The advertisement featured the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states as the center of the Re-United United States of America. The chapel associated with the monument was featured in the two-minute...
Since the pandemic began, access to The Express has been limited. Before becoming a legal Nebraska newspaper at least 400 copies must be printed each week for five years, no exceptions. Miss a week and The Express no longer exists. Consequently, we have asked our employees to follow the health department exposure guidelines. Not only do we not want to contract the COVID-19 virus, we don’t want to spread it. As a result we have tried to limit close contact which we don’t think would be possible if our door was open to all. Since March we have be...
Superior landlords have one less thing to worry about this week following action taken Monday evening by members of The Superior City Council. A proposal made earlier to make the landlords responsible for their tenants utility bills was meant strong opposition. Monday evening members of the council reversed direction and unanimously approved changing the way the city utility department does business. Andrew Brittenham, the utility department manager, said he had patterned the changes after policies now followed by several larger Nebraska...
Tuesday the Jewell County Newspapers received multiple unconfirmed reports that the Guaranty State Bank branch office at Burr Oak was robbed about 9:50 that morning. The suspected robber was thought to have fled west in a silver-gray flatbed pickup truck. The vehicle was described as a 2009 Dodge extended cab with two spare tires strapped to the bed. It was said to have Kansas license plate 250NSD. Later it was learned Todd Davis, a northwest Jewell County farmer, had reported a vehicle...
Monday South Heartland District Health Department (SHDHD) officials reported three additional COVID-19-related deaths of previously reported cases, bringing the health district total to fifty-five (55). Michele Bever, the department’s director, said the deaths were Clay County residents, including a woman in her 90s, a woman in her 60s, and a woman in her 50s. Bever also reported 24 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases in the previous four days (Feb. 5 to 8), averaging six new cases per day and bringing the cumulative number of cases in the f...
The Superior Parks and Cemetery Board has received a check from the Superior Lions Club with the request that the $5,720 contribution be used to purchase new playground equipment for City Park. The club would like an area set up for an ADA Primetime Swing Framework and two Expression swings. Any money left after meeting these requests is to be used for additional City Park playground equipment. An advertisement for Primetime equipment describes it as affordable and high quality. The system allows for a compact design. The Expression swing is a...
President’s Day, to be observed on Monday, Feb. 15th this year, popularly celebrates the presidents of the United States. Officially, by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968, it is George Washington’s birthday. But through the years the third Monday in February has evolved from a celebration honoring George Washington into a recognition of all U.S. presidents. President Joseph Biden is the 46th president of the United States, but only 45 men have been elected to the office. Grover Cleveland is the reason for this curiosity. His two terms wer...
One had to crane one's neck to view the top of the crane at work at the Agrex grain facility located on the east side of Superior Friday. A crane from Patriot Crane and Rigging was on site to return a bulkhead, or headend pulley, to the top of the silo infrastructure. The lift point was 190 feet above the ground. The crane would extend to 240 feet to make the lift. The pulley weighs 6,000 pounds. It was removed last Tuesday for preventative maintenance. It is equipment installed when the origina...
Kermit and Joyce Jeffery will be celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary this year so who better to be recognized on this Valentine's Day? Kermit and Loyce were not only class mates while attending Burr Oak High School, but they soon became high school sweethearts, a love that has remained with them for almost 74 years. Kermit, who will be celebrating his 90th birthday Friday, has lived in Northbranch all of his life except for the two years he served in the Army. He was born in a...
Three little words that seem to describe mid-west residents, Nebraska residents in particular. They were re-enforced again last week when Marilyn Alber and Sheila Hesman visited Lawrence as representatives of the Treasure Trove in Blue Hill to transfer a donation to the Lawrence Community Building Fund from the business in Blue Hill. The Blue Hill Treasure Trove is an area community thrift store that is staffed by volunteers. Proceeds are then given as donations to area organizations such as foo...
Senior McKenzie Ostdiek received the Chadron State RHOP...then she received the Wayne State RHOP...and now she has received the UNK KHOP! Not only is it impressive to receive ALL of these, but the pharmaceutical KHOP/RHOP programs are some of the most competitive there are! At the current published rates, an estimated total on the tuition, fees and living expenses for a 4 year bachelor's degree at UNK is $94,608 for students graduating in normal times...while housing is not 100% funded, having...
I read a book several years back entitled How The Irish Saved Civilization. It basically detailed how books and education were being destroyed in Europe back in the Middle Ages. As different group of people conquered different areas, books were destroyed and most people didn’t know how to read or write. The only places books were still around were the few monasteries strong enough to survive. Ireland was not connected to the mainland and not even to England. Through its monastic system books were being written and spread throughout Europe. T...
Marilyn Jo (Blagg) Smith, 84, of Topeka, died Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. She was born Sept. 11, 1936, in Centerville, Kan., the daughter of Marvin F. and Sadie G. (Gull) Blagg. Marilyn graduated from Kincaid High School in Kincaid, Kan. She later went on to attend Clarks Business School. She married Rolland K. Larison, Jr. in 1958. To this union were born three children. They later divorced. Marilyn worked as a secretary but spent most of her time as a homemaker. Marilyn married Jack L. Smith on Marc...
Ronald "Ron" Owen LaFever, 83, died Feb. 2, 2021 at Vintage Park of Wamego, Kan. Ron had lived in Wamego since moving from Esbon, Kansas in 2015. He was born in Ulysses, Kan., on Aug. 10, 1937, the son of Houston and Elizabeth (Hampton) LaFever. He attended schools in Ulysses and graduated from Ulysses High School in 1955. Ron married Judy E. McKellips in 1955 at Pampa, Texas. She preceded him in death in 1999. Ron worked for more than 40 years with the Great Plains Communications Company,...
Randall (Randy) Fred Baker, the son of Robert and Mary (Thompson) Baker, was born Dec. 21, 1951, at Broken Bow, Neb. He died Feb. 4, 2021, at the Brodstone Memorial Hospital in Superior. He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Mary E. Baker; and father, Robert F. Baker. Survivors include his sister, Lesley J. Halsey and her daughter, Kate; and sister, Robin Suppenbach and her daughter, Tiffany. Services are pending at this time....
Alice Lucille Freeman of Lincoln, formerly Deshler, died Feb. 6. She was born May 1, 1927, in Stella, Neb., to E. A. and Ferne (Higgins) Moritz. She attended country school before moving to Deshler, where she graduated from high school in May 1944. She graduated in June 1948 from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln with a teaching degree in mathematics. Lucille married Don Freeman on Sept. 7, 1947, at First Presbyterian Church in Lincoln. After she graduated college, they returned to Deshler in July 1948 where Don went into the family...
Vic Schoenberger Jr., 71, of WaKeeney, Kan. died Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, at HaysMed of pneumonia. Vic was born July 22, 1949, in Quinter, Kan., to Victor, Sr. and Lydia (Kreut- zer) Schoenberger. He grew up in WaKeeney, Kan. As a freshman in high school Vic attended seminary school in Oklahoma City, Okla., for one year and returned to Trego County. He graduated from Trego Community High School with the Class of 1967. He married Sandy Kroeger on Nov. 15, 1969. They had three children: Tonya,...
Emory L. Mills, Jr. died Feb. 4, 2021 because of a lung disease. He was born the third of seven children of Emory L. Mills, Sr. and Emma (Garman) Mills on Oct. 21, 1936, in Burr Oak, Kan. Emory and Pauline moved to Colorado in June of 1972. He was proceeded in death by his parents, Emory L. Mills Sr., Emma (Garman) Mills; his sisters, Shirley Mills, Wanda Wyatt and Loyce Warren; his brothers, Richard Mills and Howard Mills. Emory is survived by his wife, Pauline Mills; his sons, Leroy (Charla)...
"Short and Sweet" is a favorite expression a lot of people use for a lot of different reasons. It would not be a correct description to describe the Lady Raider's visit to the Twin Valley Conference Tournament for the 2020-2021 basketball season, however. The 'short' portion would be correct, but the 'sweet' portion would be very wrong. L-N was the number six seeded team and their first game of the tournament was against No. 3 seed, Blue Hill. That turned out very badly and then, they had a...
The L-N boy's basketball team had been on quite a roll for the past two weeks. A four game winning streak was helping everyone put up with the bitter winter weather that came to visit south central Nebraska as of late. After winning two critical games before the tournament, L-N won the first two games in the tourney against No. 3 seed Kenesaw and No. 2 seed Silver Lake. However the championship game of the Tourney against No. 5 seed Blue Hill saw the Bob Cats from Blue Hill get a little revenge...
Friday was "I Love Public Schools Day!" Lawrence-Nelson Elementary teachers are pictured, (back row, from left) Andy Peterson (5th), Holly Wilt (para), Cathy Biltoft (PE), Tammy Alber (K), Nancy Kotinek (cook), Kellie Feistner (para), Jerad Niederklein (3rd), (front row) Michelle Janda (1st), Dina Hoelting (4th), Melanie Chohon (Music), Megan Hubl (SPED), Alex Kucera (Secretary), and Randi Fox (2nd). Not pictured are preschool and several support staff members. If you haven't thanked a public...
Seth Going, head coach of the Superior High School wrestling team had good reason to be proud of his team members at the Class D-2A subdistrict meet at Pleasanton Saturday. The Wildcats entered seven wrestlers in the 11 team event. All seven advanced to the district level matches Saturday. Superior finished in third place with 97 team points. Other teams competing at the sub-district level were Elkhorn Valley, Burwell, Brady, Osmond, Pleasanton, Meridian, Shelton, St. Mary’s, Niobara-Verdigre and Santee. Hayden Neeman took another first p...
The four Rock Hills High School wrestlers, who compete with the Beloit Trojans team during the regular season as part of a cooperative program, competed at the KSHSSAA 3-2-1A District 3 sub-regional meet at Beloit Saturday. As they enter post-season competition, they wrestle for Rock Hills. Three of the four team members advanced to the regional match at Hillsboro High School Friday. Matches begin at 3 p.m. Rock Hills finished in seventh place, with 41, points in the 11 team field. Other schools participating at the event were Republic County,...
