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There will soon be a new mayor in Superior. The current mayor, Sonia Schmidt, notified members of the Superior City Council via email Monday morning her plan to submit her resignation when the council meets Monday evening. City employees learned of her coming resignation when they met at 9:30 Monday morning. Schmidt has long been an active participant in community activities. Her late husband, Timothy Schmidt, served decades as county attorney. Sonia is a Byron High School graduate who came to Superior with her husband soon after completing...
Tuesday is primary election day in Nebraska and the polling places are to be open as usual. However, election officials say it won’t be business as usual. Finding workers to man the places has been particularly challenging this year. The problem has been statewide, not just in Nuckolls County. Here, as in much of the state, most of the workers in previous years have been of an age which are apt to suffer the most serious problems with the COVID-19 virus. Many of them have been reluctant to work again this year. Not only must willing workers b...
In this area there has been only a light relaxing of the COVID-19 shutdown order. Effective this week some medical procedures are permitted. With restrictions funerals and church services may be held. However the other restrictions remain in place and people are encouraged to continue wearing face masks. With some rules being relaxed, the Nuckolls County Commissioners met and reaffirmed their support for the previously adopted shutdown rules. Access to the courthouse remains limited. And the list of cancelled events continues to grow. Added to...
When Mary Kahldahl heard her sister, Pat Kelly of Pender, was making masks for the Pender Hospital, she thought it was a great idea. Pat's daughter-in-law is the C.E.O. at the hospital in Pender so Mary, who volunteers at the Brodstone Memorial Hospital gift shop, knew if the Pender hospital needed masks, Brodstone Memorial Hospital might need them too. She contacted Karen Tinkham, administrative assistant at Brodstone, to see if the hospital could use them. Karen was thrilled with the idea. Mar...
On Monday, South Heartland District Health Department (SHDHD) officials reported the total number of cases in the four-county health district as 221, including 203 in Adams County, 13 in Clay County, 5 in Webster County, and zero in Nuckolls County. Michele Beaver, SHDHD executive director, said five new lab-confirmed cases were added. The new cases in Clay County included a male in his 30s and a female in her 30s. Adams County had three new cases: one feamale in her 30s, a male in his 50s and a male in his 60s. Residents who are ill or have an...
For the last 44 years a 14 foot tall, 150 ton press, owned by Reinke Shakes, has been standing in what was once the Yost Lumber Yard, of Hebron and manufactures shingles. The press stamped its last shingle on April 24. This stamping press was built for the military in October of 1951. It was bought by Reinke Mfg. Co. in 1976 to stamp out Reinke Shakes metal shingles. At that time the machine had never been used and still had cosmoline (a wax) coating over the entire structure. Every shingle...
There will be a government commodities distribution for families meeting income guidelines for the Jewell-Randall-Ionia area at 1 p.m., on Thursday, May 14, at the Jewell Apartments Commons Area, 107 S. Lincoln. The following foods are scheduled to be distributed: peanut butter, apricot halves, peaches, shredded cheddar cheese, fresh apples, dried egg mix, fresh oranges, dried split peas, dried cherries, pecan pieces, applesauce, frozen orange juice and fresh potatoes. The maximum monthly income that an individual can now earn and still...
Filing deadline for the primary election is noon on June 1 for Democrat and Republican candidates for Jewell County and township offices. Primary election is Aug. 4. General election is Nov. 3. The following have filed for office as of May 4. County offices: Shawn C. Frost, Republican, county commissioner, District 3; Mark Fleming, Republican, county commissioners, District 3; and Keith Roe, Republican, county commissioner, District 2. Donald J Jacobs, Republican, sheriff Alexandria Carabajal, Republican, county attorney Amanda Davis,...
On Friday, the Jewell County commissioners held a special meeting to discuss Jewell County’s next phase of operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioners decided to continue operations of the Jewell County Courthouse according to the March 23 resolution until further order. The resolution states all county employees will continue to maintain normal business hours and perform assigned tasks unless an employee falls within “at risk” defined by separate employee policies. Departments are encouraged to conduct business by telephone and elec...
To show support for the Lawrence-Nelson Class of 2020, Kylee Haba and Sheila McCartney decorated the window in the high school library. Drive by and check it out. Windows at the elementary school in Lawrence have also been decorated to show support for the students and community during this time. Just another way the teachers and staff show their students how much they care!...
Deshler Public School is going to have a “Virtual Graduation” at 4 p.m. May 9. People can log onto STRIV TV to watch it. The web address is: https://striv.tv./channel/deshler/...
Plans for parades through Lawrence and Nelson to honor members of the 2020 graduating class have been scuttled. The event was to have been held on Saturday....
This Mother’s Day we salute the moms who continue to endure sheltering at home or lockdown as some refer to it. The mom that never thought she would have to home school her children or the mom who knows full well now, she was never meant to be a teacher but has so much more appreciation for her little darlings’ teacher. The mom who referees who gets the devices and fights the daily battle of limiting screen time when the youngsters defend their Wi-Fi position, “but it’s schoolwork!” We salute the grandmothers who aren’t able to visit their...
In times of emergency, misperceptions can prove deadly. That’s certainly the case today, amid widespread belief that COVID-19 mainly threatens older Americans. In reality, those of any age suffering from an underlying health condition are at significant risk of complications from COVID-19. And when these patients fail to take proper precautions, they put their own lives -- and the health of millions of people -- in jeopardy. By and large, younger Americans have been the slowest to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many in this group continue t...
Pastor Jim Rice provided the service Sunday for Ionia, Jewell Trinity and Harmony United Methodist churches via video because of thecorona virus isolation. The video can be viewed on YouTube under “Worship Video for Sunday May 3 2020 James Rice.” Pianists were Jan McCollough and Mary Ann Kibbe, providing four hands, one piano and a duet special presentation. Amber Loomis served as acolyte. Amy Rice provided the Children’s Time with the quotes of characters and asking if anyone could guess those characters by what they say. Amy provided the q...
Jackson Township is the northeastern most township in Jewell County. Nebraska borders it on the north and Republic County's Big Bend Township borders it on the east. Sections one, two and three of the township are cut off from the rest of Jewell County by a bend in the Republican River. But somewhere in that small area there existed the Big Bend Post Office. The post office was in existence from June 21, 1871 to March of 1875. Big Bend is noted on two historical maps. On the 1878 map of Jewell C...
"Jewell – We've Got A Story To Tell" and one story is about the house on the southeast corner of Main and Sheridan. It is thought to be the oldest house in the community. Records and newspaper items point to it being built in 1884 by J. S. and Susan Wise Fisher. The Fisher's were from Rock Grove, Ill., and moved to Jewell around 1883. The Fisher's first visit to Jewell was recorded in the Sept. 8, 1882 Jewell County Republican. He and his wife, in the company of a sister, brother and s...
A clipping from “The Randall Enterprise,” Sept. 15, 1923 When I was a young man of 25, I came with a party of friends overland in three wagons from Iowa to Kansas. We arrived and camped near a creek east of Jewell on April 5, 1871. After looking over the land, I chose a homestead in the Star neighborhood. After my payment of $14.50 for homestead rights, I had $16 in money left. That spring, I broke two acres of sod which I planted to corn. It produced about 20 bushel per acre. I also built a dugout. Wages were 75 cents a day. I spent my fir...
I know I wrote about attending virtual meetings last week, but I’m so amazed by the technology I want to write about this week’s experiences. While seated in this newspaper’s front office on Saturday afternoon, I attended the first electronic meeting of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper editors. Sandra George, a former manager of the Nebraska Press Association, introduced me to the group a couple of decades ago. Others I know who belong to the association have twisted my arm and tried to get me to attend the society’s annual confere...
Some women spend their best shopping days in a dress shop, craft store, a gift shop, fabric store or a culinary store. Now, I enjoy shopping in those stores, too, but my best place to head especially this time of year is a greenhouse or garden center. Flower gardening is at the top of my list to plan. It begins in the early days of spring and then around the first of May. I grab my list and head to the garden center. It is so refreshing after the cold, dark days of winter, to walk into a garden center and see all the bright colored flowers just...
Harry Arthur Huge, 82, of Charleston, South Carolina, husband of Reba Kinne Huge died Monday, April 27, 2020. With the current global virus pandemic and its attendant social restrictions, his funeral will be scheduled at a time in the future when pandemic conditions will allow safe and comfortable assembly. His body will be buried near his parents in Superior’s Evergreen Cemetery. Harry Huge was born Sept. 16, 1937, in Deshler, the son of the late Arthur Huge and Dorothy Vorderstrasse Huge. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Nebraska We...
Ronald “Ron” Duane Cook was born, May 31, 1936, to Leland and Bernice Cook in Twin Falls, Idaho where his dad worked as a lineman for the phone company for a short time. Most of Ron’s younger years were in Ionia, Kansas with and near his grandparents whom he dearly loved. After a few years they all moved to Southern California. Ron was the oldest of four boys: Ron, Gerald, Marvin and Steven Cook. In the early 1950s, Ron’s folks moved to Dallas, Ore., but Ron had graduated from high school in Garden Grove, Calif., so he stayed behind and wor...
