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Come and share barbecue, homemade ice cream, and music by the 4 Hyms on Sunday Aug. 29, beginning at 5 p.m.
The Wellfleet Methodist Church will host a pork barbecue and evening of music to be held at the shelter on main street, weather permitting. ...
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By Jan Rahn
Managing Editor
In a collaborative effort, the Perkins County FFA students and their ag instructor, Doug Babbitt, created a welcoming look at the entrance to the middle school building in Madrid.
During sweltering heat, Babbit and t...
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Librarian Robin Quinn gave her annual report at the Grant City Council meeting Tuesday, Aug. 10, describing updates and new features at Hastings Memorial Library.
The library has created a Facebook page and has also added a Bestsellers Club. Another bi...
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By Jan Rahn
Managing Editor
An ordinance to shorten the selling time and detonation hours of fireworks within city limits was given its first reading at the regular meeting of Grant City Council on Aug. 10.
The ordinance would change the selling da...
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By Jan Rahn
Managing Editor
Toward the end of a 2400-mile round trip to Vancouver, B.C., several Ford Model A drivers came through Grant Friday on their way home to Wichita, Kan.
Members of the “Wichita A’s” had been to Canada to an Internati...
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The 2010-11 school term kicked off Monday with an expanse of emotions from pupils and parents as everyone was herded inside the Perkins County Elementary School in Grant. Classes began at 8 a.m. at all three sites across the county, with early dismi...
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By Jan Rahn
Managing Editor
A new deputy, Blake Smidt, joined the Perkins County Sheriff’s Office in early July, and has recently ...
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Even though I am an avid meat eater and am happy as a clam with a giant plate of steak and potatoes in front of me, every once in a while I need a change. Usually pasta is my fix.
The best thing about pasta dishes is that they can be served as a main d...
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Special guests displaying at Meadowlark Gallery during August are the “Fun with Color” Cancer Survivors Watercolor Workshop painters.
This group meets Wednesday mornings at The Art and Gift Gallery in North Platte.
Art instructor Sandy Meyer of...
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Okay, time to grab your mallets and wooden stakes, torches and pitchforks, the evil creature is back! Which one you ask? The one I thought we had killed last year, the one that reports the Moon will be as big as Mars–and in gasping tones says, “And y...
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A crowd-pleasing lineup of parade entries made its way down main street in Grant on July 31 for the annual Perkins County Fair parade with the theme “The Good Ol’ Days.”
Winners in their respective categories were:
Business: First Poppe’s Pos...
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Showmanship
Junior Showmanship: first place Haven Wid. Award sponsor: Adams Bank & Trust. Intermediate Showmanship: first place Robert Engel. Award sponsor: Yost Farm Supply.
Senior Showmanship: first place Elizabeth Krajewski. Award sponsor: Noye...
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Receiving buckles for winning their events are (l-r): Deddy Dawn Grey, Bryder Hickey, Caden Waitley, Carlie Waitley and Austin Thelander. (Photo by Jan Rahn)
Rodeo Results
Mutton Bustin’
First place boys: Bryder Hickey.
First place girls...
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Five Cease & Desist Orders to be issued to another landowner
By Russ Pankonin
The Imperial Republican
Two landowners sanctioned
by the Upper Republican Natural Resources District (URNRD) in June for bypassing irrigation flow meters want an a...
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NRD not asking for property taxes next year.
By Russ Pankonin
The Imperial Republican
After months of consideration, the Upper Republican Natural Resources District (URNRD) board finally gave approval to an integrated management plan (IMP) agreea...
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The office is continuing to receive “whistle-blower” complaints on noxious weeds growing/blooming/going to seed/etc. on both CRP (Conservation Reserve Acreages) and DCP (Direct and Countercyclical Program) acreages.
If you are enrolled in either o...
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Wheat producers whose crop was damaged or destroyed by hail this year need to take special precautions soon to prevent viruses such as wheat streak mosaic and High Plains virus from damaging their 2011 winter wheat crop.
It is critical to plan now for ...
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced the awarding of nearly 1,500 scholarships to 2010 Nebraska high school graduates. The total potential value of the scholarships is more than $12 million.
The awards are comprised of 25 Chancellor’s Sch...
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By Tawny Burmood
UNL Student Intern
When the doors open at 8 a.m. Monday morning, several things will be familiar to students who have had a three-month break. However, new classes and a few new teachers will also provide an aura of unfamiliarity thro...
