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Positive surveys and field reports point toward a more optimistic outlook for Nebraska upland bird hunting seasons this fall. “Surveys conducted earlier this summer looked more promising entering the breeding season, and with improved habitat conditions, good production is expected,” said Bryan O’Connor, upland game program manager for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Statewide, pheasant counts were up 19 percent during this year’s July rural mail carrier surveys and were near or exceeding five-year averages in all areas except the San...
The Lawrence-Nelson cross country team opens the 2024 season at the Superior Invitational Tuesday. The meet is being run over the 5K Superior Country Club Course. Start time for the first race is 4 p.m. The 2024 Raider team is comprised of Sawyer Cox, a senior, Leslie Corman, a sophomore and Kynnedy Beale, a sophomore....
The Lawrence-Nelson High School volleyball team is set to open their 2024 season Saturday at the Axtell Invitational. It is a four-team match. The Raiders face an uphill battle each year to reach the state tournament round. Their schedule is heavily weighted with D-1 and C-2 schools. They play 10 D-1 schools, 1 C-2 and 1 C1 while competing against 5 D-2 schools. The Raiders play above their weight and struggle to obtain enough wild card points to assist in post-season play. The senior class members of the team are Addi McCloskey, Val Koehler, H...
Colleen M. (Borwege) Kucera, 78, of Deweese, died Aug, 16 at the Hospice House in Omaha. Her wishes were to be cremated. A graveside service will be held at the Blue Valley Cemetery near Ayr at 11 a.m. Oct. 12, She was born May 18, 1946, to Norbert and LaVona (Armstrong) Borwege in Hastings and graduated from the Bladen Public Schools with the Class of 1964. Colleen was united in marriage with Leonard J. Kucera, Jr. On March 27, 1971, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Blue Hill. She retired after 43 years as a travel consultant in Hastings. She...
Marlin LeRoy Cox, the son of Robert Duane and Vella Mae (Melvin) Cox, was born on Feb. 12, 1936, at home in Nora, Nuckolls County, Nebraska, one of two children. He died on Aug. 17, 2024, at Bryan Medical Center, Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 88 years. He attended grade school in Nora and graduated from Nelson High School in the Class of 1953. He was drafted into the Army on Nov. 2, 1954, serving during the post-Korean War and was honorably discharged on Nov. 1, 1956. While in service, he was...
Arlo Ray Schoenrock, the son of Paul and Ruth Schoenrock, was born on Dec. 5,1941, in Alexandria Nebraska. Arlo grew up on a farm west of Fairbury and was baptized and confirmed at Zion Evangelical and Reform Church in Alexandria. After graduating from Fairbury High School in 1959, he attended Nebraska Vocational Technical School in Milford, Nebraska, and studied auto body technology. He lived much of his life in Superior, working for Bill Morris Ford and then was owner-operator of Arlo's Auto a...
The funeral for Doris Lee Stark will be held on Friday, Aug. 30, at 1 p.m. at the Nelson Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege, Neb., with Doris' great grand son, Pastor Nicholas Martozie, officiating. A graveside service will follow at Prairie Home Cemetery. Doris Lee Stark, 92 years of age, of Hastings (formerly of Holdrege and Loomis, Nebraska), died on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, at The Kensington of Hastings. Doris was born Dec. 20,1931, in Holdrege, the second of three children to Perry and Annie...
Marjorie Waring, 94, was born Sept. 14, 1929, to Helen (Scott) Howe and Loren Wallace Howe in Belleville. She died July 28, at the Park Villa Nursing Home, Clyde. Marge was baptized in the First Methodist Church, attended Belleville schools, graduating from BHS in 1947. She graduated from Christian College now Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri in 1949, and from Kansas State College in 1951 where she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta Sorority. One of Marge’s interests was horseback riding, and her summer job during her college years was as a...
Vicki Sue (Spiegel) O'Connor, 67, Overland Park, Kansas, died July 11, 2024. Born in Concordia to Richard and Nancy Spiegel, Formoso. Graduate of Mankato High School and Mary- mount College. Retired from St. Joseph Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri, as medical records processing manager. Vicki married Patrick M. O'Connor on Oct. 18, 1980, at First United Methodist Church, Courtland. They raised two daughters, Jennifer and Katherine, in Olathe, Kansas. Survivors include her mother, Nancy...
The Superior High School volleyball team opens their season today (Thursday) with a match against the Thayer Central Titans. The team features a wealth of experience with its returning players. Senior class members of the team are Faith Butler, Sadie Cornell, Halle Bargen, Lisa Hartlage and Mia Gardner. Junior class representatives are Khloe Mundorf, Cora Schnakenberg, Jordan Duncan, Peyton Zadina and Ava Kirchhoff. Liv Eitzmann, Olivia Smullins, Reagan Meyers, Maddi Bargen, Hunter Blauvelt,...
The Superior High School football team takes to the turf at Brodstone Memorial Field, Friday, where they will take on the Class C-1 Fairbury Jeffs in the 2024 season opener. The Wildcats are making a return to 11-man football as they return to Class C-2 play after two seasons of 8-man football at the D-1 level. The team has a new head coach, Ryan Renz, while returning all the players from last season's roster. Derek Clark, Cannon Blauvelt and Andrew Diehl are serving as assistant coaches. Treg...
This may look like written gibberish: "ch, sc, dc," but they are abbreviations for patterns of crocheting; chain, single crochet and double crochet. Some crocheters may say, when interrupted, "Not now, I am counting," or "I am not ignoring you. I am counting," because in crocheting you have to count every stitch; ch 3, dc 24, ch 3 turn etc... as you wouldn't want 24 stitches in one row and 30 in another. One can imagine how lopsided a blanket could be if rows weren't even. Not only can a person...
