Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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The Timmerman Ranch is where a western Nebraska horse met a Virginia teenager. The program that introduced the two is called the American Quarter Horse Association Ranching Heritage Young Horse Development Program. This program is intended to promote the Quarter Horse program and, according to the AQHA, "Youth in this program are engaged in the horse industry at a fundamental level that is both fun and educational." This AQHA program takes horse breeders, such as the Timmermans from Kimball Coun...
The atmosphere in the K-12 school was shockingly relaxed. Students were enjoying themselves, yet they were fully engaged in Option Enrollment Friday (O.E.F.) activities at Banner County School. The OEF program in Banner County is the first of it's kind in Nebraska. The mandatory school week is four days while the fifth day, Friday, which is optional for the students, is an enrichment day. Between 65% to 85% of the students voluntarily come to school on Fridays. Planning for a four day week...
The drawing for the $5,000 worth of tools from the late Dan Kinnison estate was conducted Jan. 31 at Hometown Hardware. Proceeds from the raffle went to the Andy Shaw Memorial Fund. Tyler Weisbrook was the lucky winner, and Dan Kinnison’s 3-year-old grandson, Karson Shaw, drew out the winner. Karson is pictured with his great-grandmother and wife of Dan Kinnison, Shirley Kinnison, and Patty Shaw, mother of Andy Shaw and daughter of Dan Kinnison. Karson is the son of Corey and Jen Shaw. Patty S...
A Kimball man was arraigned and will appear in court Feb. 12 in a case involving drug charges. Shawn Howell, 36, on Tuesday remained in the Kimball County jail on a $50,000 bond. After his arraignment, he was appointed an attorney. His preliminary hearing will be in Kimball County Court on Feb. 12. A search warrant was executed by the Kimball Police Department with the Kimball County Sheriff’s Department assisting on Jan. 25 at 400 S. Myrtle Apartment #2. Several items were discovered, including drug paraphernalia, bags of Marijuana, THC wax a...
Good morning everyone this first week of February 2020. Wow, did this ever sneak up on me. I totally did not realize the date and forgot to mention ol’ Phil and his weather prediction for the next six weeks. I did see where he claimed six more weeks of winter. I also did see a comment in which that prediction did not apply to Nebraska because we do our own thing! This past Sunday proved that with spring like temperatures followed by a few late starts and cancellations on Monday. Extremely icy roads. Very little extracurricular activity going o...
This year's Kimball High School Interact Club is on its way to another of year of helping the club help the community in so many ways. Club projects ad actitives include: • Organizing and helping with the annual food drive to restock the local food pantry before the holidays. • Helping Kimball Rotary with the Holiday Food Basket Program (supplying a ham and other food items to over 60 families in Kimball County for a holiday style meal at Christmas. • The Purple Pinky Fundraiser – All money rais...
Dale Hendrickson, a regular at almost all of Kimball's home basketball games, watched intently at the action at Friday night's Kimball-Sutherland contest. The man, who spent many years as a coach and administrator at Kimball High, will miss the Kimball games this weekend as he will be back east at Beatrice being inducted into the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame. Dale is one of five players, along with a coach/manager and a media personality, who will be honored at this year's induction being...
A split weekend for the Kimball High girls this past week with a convincing 50-32 win over Sutherland on the home court Friday evening and a 58-39 loss to the St Pats Irish on the road Saturday. The Lady Longhorns are now 6-10 as they head into WTC Tournament play this week. KIMBALL 50, SUTHERLAND 32 The Kimball girls out scored the visitors in every quarter enroute to their big win Friday and had a good effort according to Coach Chauncey Pedersen, "Other than our shooting," he commented. Sam...
A good day for the Kimball High Wrestling Team as they placed 4 wrestlers and finished 4th in the team standings of the 11 team field of entries in the Mitchell tournament. The Longhorns had two champions in Connor Cluff and Stephen Bateman, a 2nd place from Trey Schindler and a 3rd from Matt Johnson and scored 63 team points. Coach Wade Brashear said, “As a team we wrestled very well. Stephen Bateman led the way at heavyweight, registering 4 pins on his way to becoming the champion at 285 pounds. He had to battle out of some tough s...
A tough week for te Kimball High boys as they suffered losses to Sutherland and North Platte St. Pats on back to back nights despite good effort. On Friday night in a home contest it appeared the Longhorns were going to wrap up a win over the Sailors only to lose 43-42 on a last second 3 point field goal, and then on the road Saturday they played hard after the long road trip, and after trying to forget the disappointment of the night prior, they fell to te Irish 54-46 leaving them now with record of 8 wins and 7 losses as they ready for this w...
A busy weekend was held this past week for the Kimball high athletic program with Kimball hosting Sutherland Friday evening for basketball with the girls winning big and the boys losing in an exciting contest that Sutherland won on a last second long 3 point field goal making the final score read 43-42. Games can be won at the foul line ... and they can certainly be lost at the foul line. Such was the case Friday night as the Kimball boys had a bad night in this category. See the complete story. It was also a night where Stephen Bateman and...