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Articles from the March 17, 2016 edition


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  • Locals depict The Last Supper during meaningful pageant

    Tonia Copeland|Mar 17, 2016

    The Last Supper Pageant will once again be presented during Holy Week and the Trinity United Methodist Church. Written by Ernest K. Emurieian, the play depicts the scene of the Last Supper painting by Leonardo da Vinci done in 1491 in a convent in Milan, Italy. Leonardo's painting depicted the moment during the Last Supper just after Jesus announced "One of you will betray me" and continues from that moment with the actors frozen in their poses and coming to life, one at a time, to speak about t...

  • Citizens once again are given a Choice

    Dawn Fossand|Mar 17, 2016

    Residents in our community are asked to choose their natural gas provider during the selection period, which begins on Friday, April 15, 2016 and ends on Thursday, April 28, 2016 for the Nebraska Choice Gas program. The program began in 1998 when a group of Nebraska communities banded together to take advantage of an opportunity to compete as a supplier in the natural gas retail market. ACE, the Public Alliance for Community Energy, was created under the Nebraska Municipal Power Pool (NMPP) umbrella with the mission of supplying competitively...

  • Kimball BOE faces tough hiring year and dual credit courses

    Tonia Copeland|Mar 17, 2016

    Administration at the Kimball Public Schools anticipate difficulty hiring for the upcoming school year with the acceptance of high school English teacher Erin Aerni’s resignation and the retirement of language teacher Pat Sulu. “Replacing both of them will be very difficult,” Superintendent Marshal Lewis said. “Just to my knowledge, there is at least three English teachers that have been hired in the last three weeks (in the area) and I know of a couple more postings out there. I did follow up on a lead for a foreign language teacher. For jus...

  • Friends and Neighbors: Becky Mannon

    Dawn Fossand|Mar 17, 2016

    "I was invited to go to London", exclaimed Kimball's newest author, "well, not me personally – but, my little bear book." Mannon's creation, "IF ONLY BEARS COULD TALK: Teddy Bear Tales from the Heart" was written to share her love of her hobby and to share the heart-warming memories of her journey in the art of creating these one of a kind, handmade bears. Born and raised in Kimball, Mannon, a lifelong Kimball resident graduated from Kimball High School in 1974. She and her husband, Steve, h...

  • Mayor procliams Job's Daughters Founder's Week March 5 through March 12

    Mar 17, 2016

  • Letter to the editor

    Larry Nelson|Mar 17, 2016

    Hello, I am Larry Nelson, a volunteer interviewer for the Veterans History Project. This wonderful program aims at interviewing Veterans from all branches of the military during any time of their service. The purpose of the interviews is to obtain the Veteran’s story and keep it alive…that is, at the Library of Congress, and with the respective families involved. The United States Congress created the Veterans History Project in 2000. The authorizing legislation (Public Law 106-380), sponsored by Representatives Ron Kind, Amo Houghton, and Ste...

  • Randomly Tonia

    Tonia Copeland|Mar 17, 2016

    Following graduation I had the opportunity to move to several cities in Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, Minnesota and Nevada. These moves happened every few months, and in preparation I would call the local Chamber of Commerce to learn as much as possible about the next town we would be calling home. The Chamber gave me information on rentals, hotels, trailer parks, businesses, and the general feel of the community. I was able to make contact with some of the most active and involved people in the town before I ever entered it, and that enabled me...

  • FFA labor and silent auction

    Mar 17, 2016

  • Jock Talk

    Tom Southard|Mar 17, 2016

    South Dakota State University is headed to the Big Show College Basketball Tournament and they can, and have, thanked Kimball’s Mike Daum for his major role in getting them there. We gave you a report last week on the first two games of the Summit League Conference Tournament where Mike was so instrumental in getting the needed wins over Oral Robert University and Denver University. Big Mike stayed right on course in the title game with North Dakota State, scoring 18 points to lead the Jackrabbitts to a 67-59 win. In that championship game M...

  • Kimball speech winners headed to State

    Mar 17, 2016

    The Kimball High School Speech Team won the C1-6 District Championship in Gering, on Monday, March 14. Individual awards were presented to Desyree Nelson for sixth place in Persuasive speaking, Kennedy Lewis for fifth place in Serious Prose, and the Oral Interpretation of Drama team of Nicholas Thomas-Lewis, Taylor Muldoon, Kaden Adrian and Leisha Casimiro took fifth place. Sebastian Portillo, Audrey Day, Paycen Harroun, Mikylah Seely, and Tristen Cook were awarded fourth place in Oral...

  • Kimball Public Library open house

    Mar 17, 2016