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The Plainsmen track team took part in their second competition of the season Thursday, March 28 at Ogallala. Setting a new school record was Elliot Carlson, first in the long jump with a 20’ 10” leap. Taking home a first place in the 400 meter dash wa...
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By Elizabeth StrandSports Writer The Wallace Wildcats at tended the Sutherland Booster Club Invitational on Thursday, March 28. There were 11 other teams at the meet: Paxton, North Platte St. Patrick’s, Stapleton-McPherson County, Sutherland, ...
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The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission began collecting walleye the night of April 1 at Sherman and Merritt reservoirs and will collect the following week at Lake McConaughy, weather permitting. Closures and warnings for boaters and anglers again are in p...
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Light green team members are (Front row, l-r): Coach Courtney McClenahan, Colson Uehling, Blake Soper, Coach Carlie Waitley. Back row: Mikale Wendell, Mallory McClenahan, Eli Gaston, Zaybreon Hansen. Not pictured: Maggie Fisher. (Courtesy photos)
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Cancer fundraiser expected to sell out well before the event. Even though the 2013 Cattlemen’s Ball is more than 60 days away, tickets are going fast. In fact, about 1,000 of the 4,000 available tickets have already been sold–and the pace is picking u...
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The Nebraska Corn Board presented its annual awards to six Nebraskans during its Cooperator and Awards Dinner in Lincoln recently. The agricultural awards pay tribute to outstanding representatives of Nebraska’s grain elevator, livestock, and ethanol i...
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The deadline is fast approaching for local school districts to compete for a grant of up to $25,000 through America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. The more farmers who nominate a school district, the more it demonstrates...
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4-H is making a difference in the lives of young people across Nebraska. The 2012 Nebraska Youth Development Outcome Report helps to clarify the impact and importance of the 4-H program to Nebraska. In Nebraska, one in three age-eligible youth were enro...
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By Jeff BradshawExtension Entomology Specialist As many of you know, Nebraska, and particularly western Nebraska, has had another mild dry winter and is expected to have a warm, dry spring. These conditions are conducive to the survival of some of the ins...
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The 2013 Nebraska Ranch Practicum gives ranchers cutting edge research in range livestock production from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Natural resources, livestock management and economic reality are integrated throughout the Practicum. During the ...
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By Sharry NielsenUNL Extension Educator University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Tractor Safety/Hazardous Occupations Courses will be offered at seven locations in Nebraska during May and June. Any 14 or 15-year-old teen who plans to work on a farm other ...
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Industry-wide cooperative meat identification standards committee adopts updated URMIS nomenclature for the meat case. The National Pork Board and Beef Checkoff Program received unanimous approval from the Industry-Wide Cooperative Meat Identification Sta...
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By Bethany Knipp Nebraska News Service A bill that would help protect Greater Nebraska against forest fires advanced through the Unicameral Monday. LB634, the Wildfire Control Act of 2013, made it through the first round of consideration on a vote of 36-0...
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I picked up my granddaughter after school several days ago. What a frightening scenario! I could not believe the chaos at the elementary school. Cars and kids going every which direction. It’s a miracle that something tragic hasn’t happened already. ...
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Dear Editor: Please allow me to share a concern for the next generation, specifically, that they may not survive us to carry on. My fear is that one or more will be hit as they are leaving the grade school or crossing Central Avenue in Grant. I moved here...
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By Jan RahnManaging Editor Superintendent Tobin Buchanan will be leaving his post at Perkins County Schools around the beginning of July to start a position he has accepted with First National Capital Markets of Nebraska in North Platte. Buchanan has s...
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By Jan RahnManaging Editor Clinging to God’s promise of renewal, Jim Styskal looks forward to being back home this spring to watch new life burst forth. Styskal, who has been in the confines of Craig Rehabilitation Hospital in Englewood, Colo., since...
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By Jan RahnManaging Editor Perkins County Schools is in search of a new superintendent to replace Tobin Buchanan, as well as three classroom instructors to fill vacancies by teachers who are retiring. Buchanan resigned his position as superintendent duri...
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By Jan RahnManaging Editor Students and fans at Perkins County High School will see a new face in the classroom, the halls, and along the gridiron when school resumes this fall for the 2013-14 term. Carlie Wells has been hired as the new head football ...
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Telephone conference report held on Tuesday, March 26.By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican On Monday and Tuesday, senators debated whether to allow medical providers to provide drugs to treat the partner of a person diagnosed with a sexually-transmit...
