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This spring and summer, people in America are ready to burst out, make a break for it and get away. Much like a caged bird, Americans were confined long enough following the COVID-19 scare and lockdown, and are ready to get out of the cage. When trying to make reservations at hotels while forming trip plans, it seemed rooms were all booked for months ahead and the prices had risen. If a person was looking to purchase recreational vehicles they were selling like hot cakes. If a person was fortunate enough to have or purchase a camper, making res...
It took 21 years but Friday I finally made it to Deshler and the Spring Creek Model Trains store. I had planned to attend their spring toy show but a family conflict took me south to Osborne on show day. As a youngster, I enjoyed playing with a Lionel model train and dreamed of expanding the train layout to circle the basement of my family's home on Blauvelt's Hill. I studied the toy catalogs and designed the layout I wanted to build when I got sufficient money together. Of course, there had to...
Presenting Biblical answers to tough questions Q: Some Bible passages tell us to ‘pester’ God with our prayers, others say that 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 that 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 that the first person lives...
August . . . Always a special month to me as birthdays abound; wedding anniversaries seem abundant, and . . . football season gets all that much closer. I learned from the comic section of today’s paper that in August there are no national holidays . . . so we have to make our own holidays. It is fortunate that we do have the religious holiday of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We can add that to our personal holidays. I start the month with my own birthday and 55 never looked so good. Of course I have to look back at that age w...
I’m always joking that I will drive a car until the tires fall off. Well, folks, I almost did that very thing. I knew the tires were fairly worn but was hoping to get through a few more months before I had to replace them. We took the car in for an oil change and the attendant in the pit noticed that I had wires showing on one of them. Talk about embarrassing. I have been doing the maintenance on my vehicles for 20 years. In the last couple of years, I have become lazy. Having a car that doesn’t burn oil and a check engine light isn’t stuck...
The Superior Public School hallways glisten and a sense of excitement radiates throughout the school. All teachers report for duty Monday morning and students check-in Thursday to start the 2021-22 school year. Visual changes will greet elementary students. The office and hallways are decorated with brightly colored bees, hives and honey combs to reflect the building's theme, "Bee Kind," for this school year. A collage of ceiling tiles just inside the main elementary entrance may be the first...
The Superior Municipal Swimming Pool will close for the season on Sunday. Bev Czirr, pool manager, said the pool will close at 5 p.m. Sunday. It will open at 1 p.m. Normal operating hours will be in effect until Sunday. Czirr said attendance figures varied with the weather. Extreme high temperatures limited the number of afternoon swimmers. The pool averaged 75 patrons each afternoon. The lifeguard staff is comprised of high school and college students who are returning to school next w...
Monday evening a west bound pickup travelling on Highway 136 struck a bull in the roadway about one half mile west of Ruskin. The vehicle ended up in some trees along the Jeff and Jennie Scholl driveway with the bull underneath the vehicle's rear. Members of the Ruskin Volunteer Fire Department and the Deshler ambulance crew responded to the call for assistance. The bull was pulled from under the rear end of the pickup with a tractor and a passenger in the vehicle was removed and taken to an...
The Nuckolls County Board of Commissioners met for their regularly scheduled meeting, Monday, at the county courthouse in Nelson. Jeff Wagner, county highway superintendent, Cindy Buescher, executive secretary and Jim Bolte, county road department foreman, were present for the letting of the bid for the replacement of a bridge south of Ruskin. The bridge will be replaced with three eight by 40 feet culverts. The culverts come with head walls installed. The low bid was $72,020. The contract was awarded to Contech with an Oct. 11 or earlier...
Whether or not you are a rail fan , a piece of American history will be rolling through northern Nuckolls County Sunday. A restored Union Pacific Railroad Big Boy locomotive will pass through Sedan on its way to an overnight stop in Fairbury. The Big Boy is the largest steam locomotive constructed in the United states. It played a major role in keeping the supply lines of the United States fluid during WWll. There were 25 Big Boys built for the Union Pacific. The first one arrived in 1941. It received its nickname when a worker at the American...
There was a time when Saturday was the busiest shopping day of the week in Superior. Farmers from far and wide came to town that day to do their trading and stayed late. Often store owners didn’t finish up the day’s business until sometime after midnight. That has changed. Other days now are the busiest but that may not be true for the coming two Saturdays. Special events are planned both days that will draw shoppers to the community. First up is the Sidewalk Sale event sponsored by the Superior Chamber of Commerce. It will be held this Sat...
The New Flights of Honor exhibit is scheduled to arrive at the Superior Auditorium on Friday, Aug. 20. It will be available for public viewing from 1:30 to 9 p.m. and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 22. For those concerned about COVID-19 the exhibit will have nine separate frames arranged to provide spacing between visitors. The exhibit, created by Patriotic Productions of Omaha, includes of hundreds of photos from the Heartland Honor Flights that took 3,466 veterans from 386 Nebraska communities to Washington, D.C., during the years 2008 to...
Blair Hofstetter is serving her pharmacy internship at Superior Pharmacy for the month of August. She is no stranger to a small town having grown up in Daykin. Blair graduated from Meridian High School in 2015. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Hastings College. She is currently in the pharmacy program at the University of Nebraska Medical School in Omaha. She is on track to graduate in May, 2022. Hofstetter wanted to pursue a career in which she could give back to a community...
Sunday evening saw "Meal and Movie with the Mayor"in (where else?) Maag Park in Jewell. A fun event on a marvelous evening had a crowd munching on a meal of hotdogs and chips hosted by Jewell'smayor Darrell Bohnert and his wifeDeb Moyer Bohnert. To go along with the "drive-in movie," area youngsters made cardboard motor vehicles. There were cars, Gators, tractors and fire trucks to "drive" to the movie. The Moyer family from Salina provided the popcorn for the movie goers. There was also ice...
The Jewell County Cinema Board, Inc. (JCCI) met last Monday, via ZOOM and in person. Thadd Hinkle, Liza Goodheart (ZOOM), Phyllis Christie, Janis McDill, Chris Klos and Kristin Underwood were present. Janis McDill presented the treasurer’s report, stating ‘Spirit’ didn’t do well, but ‘Cruella’ was somewhat better. In old business, Klos asked if Janis McDill had received an invoice for insurance coverage. She stated she has not, nor has she received a bill from Sonic for the warranty. She will contact Sonic about the warranty bill. Christie sa...
3 Years Ago August 2, 1901 Twenty-nine acres of wheat belonging to Elwood Butts yielded 829 bushels. It was estimated Kansas would raise 25 million bushels of corn during the year, a little more than twice as much as Jewell County alone used to raise in a single year. Frank Murphy, Mankato, had a close call while working with Shell and Walter Hill’s steamer at John Divel’s place. He had been feeding and jumped down to oil. As he reached over the big belt with the oil, his jacket was caught by the belt. He yanked the belt off the wheel and...
Final Summer Tales Jessica Olp and Kodi Smith from Rolling Hills Zoo joined eager children Thursday morning at the Mankato City Library for the last presentation of the "Tails and Tales" summer reading program. Olp and Smith brought a bearded dragon named Beardy B, a ball python named Zeus, and a couple of African millipedes. The topic of the program was adaptation. Olp gave two adages to help the attendees know the difference between predators and prey. "Eyes in the front are animals that hunt...
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) has arrested two individuals after an investigation into former employees of the Cloud County Jail. On Wednesday, July 28, at approximately 8:35 a.m., Amber Lindberg, 40, of Concordia, was arrested at 212 N. Concord in Minneapolis, Kan. She was arrested for theft, misuse of public funds, official misconduct, making false information, conspiracy to commit theft, conspiracy to commit official misconduct, conspiracy to commit misuse of public funds and conspiracy to commit destroying a written instrument....
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) wants to alert Kansans to potential air quality impacts from Western wildfire smoke. Ongoing wildfires across the Western U.S. continues to produce dense smoke that is being transported into Kansas by the atmospheric winds. While some of this smoke is remaining high in the atmosphere, there are times when this smoke is being observed at the surface and impacting air quality. These air quality impacts may continue to be seen as long as the Western U.S. wildfires continue to burn. Smoke can...
The Couples Summer Golf League met in Nelson Friday evening for the ninth week of competition. What a hot and humid evening it was! But it took more than the weather to keep these ‘die-hard’ golfers home! The format for the evening, in addition to the usual two-person scramble, everyone teed off from the women’s tee boxes. This helped lower some of the scores. Cody and Crystal Wyatt had a low net score of 28 after parring the course! Dorrel Lipker and Carla Jeardoe had a high gross score of 49. Dorrel Lipker was the closest to the 100 yard...
If you've ever been to Harbine Park in Nelson and sat on one of the wooden benches, you know the park is in need of an update. Over the years, city employees and volunteers have done their best to keep the wooden benches in the best condition possible by painting, treating and replacing rotted or broken boards. Just a few years ago, treated lumber was purchased and a few new benches were made. Even those are showing signs of wear and tear. The park board is aware of this and with your help...
The “Happy Little Feet” campaign for this fall is underway. This group raises money to buy underprivileged students a good pair of tennis shoes for this school year. There are red cans in most businesses to put your donations in. Or you can send donations to: Happy Little Feet PO Box 25 Superior, Nebraska 68978...
Community Action Partnership of Mid-Nebraska has notified this newspaper of a plan to hold a WIC Clinic in Superior on Monday, Aug. 23 but the agency did not indicate a time or place. When sending news items to this newspaper, be sure to remember to include the Who, What, When and Where....
Jeanette Brockman, 68, of Lawrence, Neb. departed this life July 29, 2021 at Bryan East Hospital in Lincoln, Neb. She was born in 1953 to Robert and Arlene (Witrhlik) Svoboda. She attended Lawrence High School and graduated in 1971. On Oct. 9, 1976, she was united in marriage to Duane Brockman at Sacred Heart Church in Lawrence, Neb. They spent their married life together on the farm in the Lawrence area. Jeanette enjoyed cooking, reading, tending to her many flowers and gardening with her...
Miss Elyssa Kohmetscher, daughter of Frank and Marilyn Kohmetscher, and Mr. Zackary Johnson of Doniphan, Nebraska were married July 24, 2021 at the Moonlight Ridge Vineyard in Grand Island. A reception and dance followed in Grand Island. Attending were Helen Kohmetscher of Lawrence along with the families of Elyssa and Zach. Relatives and friends came from nine states for the occasion....
