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By Jan RahnManaging Editor Grant Rotarians proudly hosted a team of Brazilian public school teachers recently through the Rotary International Exchange Program. The team, led by Waldir Francisco de Andrade, spent time in Imperial, Ogallala an...
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EMC Insurance Companies has declared and recently paid a dividend to members of their Municipality Safety Dividend Program. Local agent Jeff Skeels of HomeTown Agency has presented checks to the City of Grant, the Village of Madrid, the Villa...
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Offered to parents, school staff, clergy, hospital personnel, first responders, counselors and mental health professionals and others willing to volunteer after a disaster.
By Jan RahnManaging Editor Volunteer disaster training workshops are scheduled to...
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By Sen. Mark Christensen44th District, Neb. Legislature To purchase, to lease, or to study? That is the question the Legislature addressed this last week regarding the governor’s request in the budget to purchase the Beechcraft Super King Air airplane f...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Pumping at the Rock Creek augmentation project has reached the capacity of the pipeline with a total of 10 wells operating. During the Upper Republican Natural Resources District meeting last week, board member rec...
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See below to register for upcoming free disaster training sessions during June in Imperial and McCook.
“A tornado has hit the elementary school in Grant”—this was the beginning statement of an emergency tabletop exercise held on Monday even...
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Fire causes $150,000 in damages
One Year AgoMay 17, 2012 Third and fourth grade students from Grant Elementary School assisted tree board president Jon Forney and other tree board and community members and students from the high school horticulture class...
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Local author BJ Wolfe (Barbara Kirkpatrick) will be at Hatch’s Super Foods on Saturday, May 18, from 10 a.m. to noon to autograph copies of her latest western novel, End of the Rope. First edition books will be on sale for $14. This is her sec...
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The May 10th Elsie/Madrid Blood drive once again reached its goal that was set by the American Red Cross according to coordinators Michele Cutler and Rosalie Curtis. Lunch was provided by the Hi-Line Coop and served by the Elsie senior citizens. Coffee m...
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A memorial in the name of Doug Lee was presented to the Grant Volunteer Fire Department and Perkins County Ambulance at the May 6 business meeting by the Lee family. This memorial will be used to purchase additional equipment for the fire department and a...
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The Grant City Park has a new tree, planted by tree board president Jon Forney (pictured), compliments of Dave Twomey of Twomey Tree Service in Ogallala. The tree, a bur oak, was a gift from Twomey in gratitude to the customers he has in Grant. ...
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On April 26 seven young men completed all requirements set forth by the Boys Scouts of America and participated in the Pack 160 Cub Scout Arrow of Light Ceremony. This ceremony signifies the “Crossing Over” from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. T...
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Each year the National Daughters of the American Revolution honors young people from across the country for qualities of good citizenship, specifically dependability, service, leadership and patriotism in their homes, schools and communities. Winners of...
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Sawyer News Henry, Huntin and Betty Taylor visited Betty Larsen Friday afternoon. Betty Larsen and Connie Taylor visited with Jake and Jeremy Klima at the home of Ron and Christi Klima on Saturday. Vern Mailand, Pearl Kuskie, Marguerite Ott, Ted Heinnema...
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He keeps it all together
By Father Mark PfeifferMother of Sorrows/St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Every couple has photos and videos of the big event, “Our wedding day.” It is a good thing we have the sacred moment captured on film. Many couples say th...
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Scientists are seeing double
By Vernon WhetstoneAmateur Astronomer
More about double stars. Astronomers have estimated that between one half to 80 percent of the stars in the Milky Way are double stars. It was once thought that most of the stars in the ...
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Can’t beat a breakfast meal
By Ashleigh NoyesTribune columnist
Who doesn’t love Brinner? You know what I am talking about–breakfast for dinner. If I had enough recipes my husband would have me make breakfast every night. I am a fan, too, but I enj...
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Accepting who we are
By Jo McCormickPark Ridge resident
Proverbs 11:28 A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump: a God shaped life is a flourishing tree. All the advertising that touts, “Live Life to the Fullest” by using or having this or t...
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The 26th annual five-day Tour de Nebraska bicycle ride will head to beautiful central Nebraska on its 306-mile round trip journey, June 19-23. Approximately 300 cyclists will leave Doniphan on Wednesday, June 19 and camp overnight in Loup City, Callaway, ...
