Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Carma Weisbrook’s fifth grade classroom at Mary Lynch Elementary has been ranked a Top 100 classroom in the Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program. The BOOK IT! Program is a sixth month reading program for elementary students that focuses on motivating children to read more and helping them develop a lifelong love of reading. Weisbrook’s classroom logged 143,760 minutes of reading this past run of the program to place 65th on the Top 100 list. With over 14 million students in 680,000 classrooms across the... Full story
The City of Kimball has found a new police chief to take over the spot vacated by former Police Chief Mark Simpson. Captain Darren Huff, who has worked in law enforcement for approximately 16 years, was approved by the City Council at their April 22 meeting to take over the Kimball Police Department as police chief. “I had the option as the mayor of opening this up for people to apply for the position of chief of police or go within our own ranks and assign someone to that,” Mayor James Sch... Full story
The Kimball FFA was well represented at the 85th Nebraska State FFA Convention in both the Leadership Skills Events and the Career Development Events. Kimball FFA had several high individuals and multiple teams that were recognized with top honors. The chapter also had one State Degree recipient. Of the 10 teams Kimball took to state, 9 were in the top 50 percent of their competition. For the medals and placing, the Junior Parliamentary Procedure Team competed against 24 other teams. They...
Following the tragedy that took place in Boston last week, countless questions have arisen: Why did these attacks take place? What caused these two young men to act in such a manner? Was extremism involved? Were they lone wolves or part of a larger terrorist organization? The younger of the two suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is still in serious condition after sustaining several gunshot wounds, according to reports from The New York Times. Several high-ranking Republican lawmakers have called...