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Happy 245th Birthday of The United States of America! As we celebrate Independence Day over the week-end and into Monday, there will be picnics, BBQs, ball games, camping by a lake, fishing, boating and the firing off of numerous fireworks. Some people will be sporting patriotic shirts, caps, and displaying American flags at homes, businesses, campgrounds and on the towns’ main streets. What exactly are we as Americans celebrating besides the official birth of our country? It should be we are also celebrating our freedom that was won at a p...
A longtime subscriber to this newspaper, Ken Torring, drove over from Deshler on Friday. He stopped at the newspaper office to ask if I might be related to Charles Blauvelt, the former editor of the Arapahoe Public Mirror. One of grandfather's older brothers was named Charles but he was a harness maker not a newspaper editor. Prior to suffering a stroke and retiring to Colorado, he was employed by the Dutton-Lainson Company at Hastings. Harness was one of many things the company has made and...
Presenting Biblical answers to tough questions Q: Some Bible passages tell us to ‘pester’ God with our prayers, others say we should avoid vain repetition and just have faith; what gives? How often should we ask God for what we want? A: First let me say it’s normal to see a tension between different Bible passages that address a given topic. If I tell one person to drive west to get to Mankato, then tell another to drive east to get to the same place, it can seem like a contradiction. Until I tell you the first person lives in Belleville and th...
“Operation Rescue” is a Pro-Life organization from Wichita, Kan. This week I’m going to use information directly from one of their writers, Cheryl Sullenger, to talk about elections. It may seem strange to talk ‘elections’ here almost two years from the next one, but Cheryl brings up some important items that one needs to think about long before any of us go into that election booth. What follows is mostly from her. “No matter what you believe happened on Election Day and the days that followed the 2020 Presidential Election last November, t...
Just another busy week in this house. Robert is on leave and has been home since Tuesday. I had thought he wasn’t coming home until Thursday evening, but plans change. My house is somewhat clean and put together. I have my dads to thank for that one. We had my dad over for dinner last Wednesday, and then on Friday, my “bio” dad and stepmother came for a visit. We had a good visit with both! Managing the pool has been a challenge this week as well. With one assistant manager on vacation and the other ill, I feel like I’m running in circles...
For the first time in several years, local residents will soon be able to enroll in dance classes without having to travel outside of the area. Erin Nelson is developing plans to open The Superior Dance Studio. Negotiations for a location are on going but the hope is to start the first classes in early August. The instructor grew up dancing at the Blair Dance Studio in her hometown of Blair, Neb. She studied ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary modern, broadway jazz, hip hop, point and pom. She attended Northwest Missouri State University...
The 245th anniversary of this nation’s founding will be celebrated throughout the area this weekend. Many area communities have special activities planned to mark the holiday. Here in Superior the Superior Joggers are planning for the 39th annual running of the Firekracker run with classes and races for various ages and activity levels. Sponsors are planning for more than 300 runners to enter the event which will begin and end near the City Park band shell. The first races will depart at 7:45 a.m. When designing the first 10K race course, t...
After closing in December and being sold at public auction, a popular Superior ice cream and sandwich shop with a history stretching over all or part of 7 decades, is scheduled to reopen today. Motorists passing the Burger Barn at Fourth and Bloom, who have been keeping watch looking for a hint of when it may reopen, were pleased this week to see the message board announced a July 1 opening. According to the sign, plans are to remain open until 10 p.m. for those who need a late evening ice cream fix....
Water system improvement projects undertaken by the City of Superior along Bloom and Idaho streets from Second to Fifteenth streets are entering the final phases. New larger, water mains have been installed and the customers served along that area have been connected to the new mains. Some concrete work and seeding of the areas disturbed by the construction is about all that remains to be completed. While the work appears to have been done in one construction season, it was scheduled so the payments were part of two fiscal years. Monday...
The Pony Express rerode from Sacramento, Calif., to St. Joseph, Mo., and passed through Nuckolls County on Friday. Dick Heinrichs, Hebron, was part of the group who re-enacted the cross-country mail service between Oak and Alexandria. Heinrichs said, "It's something that is actual stuff that you can reenact." He said, "The reenactment makes one appreciate the difficulties the Pony Express riders endured to do their jobs." It was Heinrich's 40th year to ride as part of the reenactment. Eighteen...
Members of the Nuckolls County Historical Society held their annual meeting, Sunday, in Pioneer Hall, on the museum campus in Superior.. Society members and guests were present. Richard Schmeling, a Superior native and Lincoln resident, gave a presentation on the history of Nuckolls County railroads. He also donated a train schedule board, which was accepted by Nancy Meyers, museum curator. The board once adorned the wall of a Superior Burlington depot. Schmeling saved the board for posterity...
The COVID-19 pandemic emergency rental and utility assistance program will be explained in a public meeting set for Brodstone Memorial Hospital’s north conference room from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 7. The meeting has been arranged by the Community Impact Network of Adams, Clay, Nuckolls and Webster counties. Those who qualify may apply in person for assistance with past due rent and utilities or future rental payments. Advance registration is requested either by going to www.shorturl.at/rszMP or by telephoning 402-461-8418. Those seeking t...
The Nuckolls County Board of commissioners met at the county courthouse in Nelson, Monday, at 8:30 a.m. All three commissioners were present. The board worked through a light agenda. The commissioners approved looking into the acquisition of an automated phone answering system for the courthouse. They tabled action on forming a CARES Act committee. The road department reported a bridge was removed on Road 2900. It was replaced with three culverts. The project was part of the bridge match program. The repairs on the Edgar spur are said to be...
A Beloit roofer has been temporarily banned from performing roofing services in Kansas and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution after being found in violation of consumer protection laws, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said on June 25. Quincy Justus, of Beloit, who does business as JAQ’s Ultimate Service, was ordered to repay a Smith County consumer $5,000. He was also temporarily enjoined from operating as a roofing contractor in Kansas until such time he has obtained a roofing contractor registration certificate from the attorney g...
Chesterfest was held this past weekend in Chester and peaked with concert by Keith Anderson. The weekend was filled with a range of events and great food. Thursday night started with a Farmer's Market, and the vendors sold out quickly. Friday night saw the beginning of the sand volleyball tournament on the new court in the park. With music playing and the beer garden open, it was a summer night in the small town. Things got off to a fast start on Saturday morning with the inaugural 5k run and...
Members of the Jewell County Historical Society are preparing for the threshing bee and antique machinery show which traditionally is held the third weekend of July in the Mankato City Park. Saturday the wheat which will feed the threshing machine was cut and bound. Now volunteers are being sought to serve as button sellers....
Kelly and Becky McNichols will be the guest leaders when the Lovewell Lake Church meets this Sunday. ...
5 Jewell County Fair is introducing Amateur Ranch Rodeo Games. The event will be at 7 p.m., Friday, July 9, in the horse arena. The event can be done individually or with teams of two to three. This event is strictly for fun. There will be no entry fee or prize money. The ranch trail course will include opening a gate, crossing a wooden bridge, crossing a tarp, going between trees and over larger logs, roping a dummy, dragging a log and finishing up with sorting and penning a calf. It will be strictly a fun event. Jackpot Barrel Racing will...
The Jewell County Commissioners met Monday, June 21. Commissioners Brent Beck, Steve Greene and Keith Roe were present. The commissioners approved to sign the corrected letter for the Corrective Action Plan to the Department of Health and Human Services, the Elder Abuse Awareness Month Proclamation for June 2021 and the management representation letter to Lindburg Vogel Pierce Faris Chartered. Kevin Peroutek, emergency preparedness director, provided a copy of the letter from the Office of Recovery stating Jewell County’s SPARKS Funding P...
Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) announced the winners of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition for the Third District of Nebraska. “Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Congressional Art Competition and to all of the students who submitted their work,” said Smith. “The impressive art submitted this year is a testament to the talent of Third District students and their teachers.” Artwork by the first-place winner will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol. The runners-up will have their art displayed in Congressman Smith’s Washington,...
The Elk Creek Couples Summer Golf League met in Nelson Friday evening for another round of competition. It again turned out to be a pleasant and beautiful evening after receiving some much needed rain the prior week. The format this week, in addition to the usual two-person scramble, had the guys doing all of the putting. Dorrel Lipker and Carla Jeardoe had a low net score of 30 and also a high gross score of 51. Hunter Holland and Emily Wulf took an 8 on the par 4 No. 5 for the most over. Royce Schott had the fewest putts, only 11, and Joe...
I wouldn’t want any of our readers to miss out on any of the festivities coming up this weekend, especially all the food and the opportunity not to have to cook. So with that said, here is what you have to look forward to. In Nelson, on Saturday, you can get away with not having to cook a thing all day. The Nelson Fun Days kick off with a free-will breakfast in the park, beginning at 7:30 a.m. The Sacred Heart Altar Society will serve lunch at Noon. For dinner, the Nelson Volunteer Fire Department will be hosting a free-will hamberger feed. I...
Rollan Schott, originally from Nelson, published his debut book, a novella titled A Grave Concern, on May 8. The fictional work is available for order on Amazon in paperback and Kindle e-Book formats. A Grave Concern tells the whimsical tale of a young artisan as she travels across vast kingdoms in search of a missing king, who might hold the key to a romantic longing she struggles to define. The story's episodic narrative offers a clever and modern twist on classic fairy tale tropes and...
(The following article was taken out of The Nelson Gazette June 29, 1967) The Fourth of July was always celebrated with great fervor in the old days Everyone welcomed the opportunity to break the monotony of the day-to-day frontier loneliness. The first observance of the Fourth of July in Nuckolls County was in 1872. It was held under a spreading cottonwood tree on the west side of the Little Blue, opposite 'The Narrows', scene of an early-day Indian raid. The Declaration of Independence was rea...
