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NEVER FORGOTTEN
A solemn ceremony honoring those who died in the service of their country was held Monday, Memorial Day, at the Kimball Cemetery. About 125 people attended the event, which began with 2023 graduate...
Ruiz Appointed Kimball Police Chief
In a special meeting on Wednesday, May 24, the Kimball City Council unanimously approved the mayor’s appointment of Jose Ruiz as police chief. According to the Mayor John Morrison, Ruiz is in the process of purchasing a house and will be moving to...
Program Helps Students Catch Up While Working In Ag, Fishing
Educational Service Unit 13, which serves the Panhandle, would like to find some children and young adults in Kimball County to participate in its Title 1C Education Program. Title 1C helps students – who work in agriculture or fishing –with...
Sewer, Water Plans Progress
The Kimball City Council on Tuesday, May 16, spent a significant amount of meeting time on presentations and reports from Olsson Engineering on preliminary expansion and upgrades to the sewer and...
This Is The Week! Banner County Historical Day!
Good morning Banner County, neighbors and friends near and far. Memorial weekend has come and gone, bringing typical cloudy wet weather with it. Remembrance of our lost ones,especially those lost in service to this country never lessens whatever the...
City Goes After Stoney Vance For Loan Money
Legal issues continue to follow Stoney Vance as the City of Kimball has filed a complaint against Vance individually and his Cuisine Caravan, L.L.C. in Kimball County Court. Vance was the former CEO/manager of Arrow Medical in Kimball. In March, Vanc...
Mayor Wants Ruiz As Chief
The Kimball City Council planned to meet in special session on Wednesday evening, May 24, to consider Mayor John Morrioson’s appointment of Jose Ruiz as police chief. Ruiz would follow former Chief Andy Bremer and Interim Chief Dwain Murdoch on...
GONE FISHIN'
Kimball County Manor residents were treated recently to a circus complete with games and prizes for everyone. Above, Paul Heidemann does a little fishing to catch the biggest fish in the pond. Other...
MEMORIAL DAY PLANS IN PLACE
Kimball's Memorial Day observance will begin at 10 a.m. Monday at the Kimball Cemetery. The VFW also will serve burgers and fixings at their hall at 227 South Chestnut. Donations will be accepted for...
Mmm, Mmm Good: Plants Being Harvested At Library
Every couple of weeks, Rose Curless stops by the Kimball Public Library to get some parsley, lettuce and tomatoes. The tomatoes are for her husband. After gathering a bag of parsley, Rose said, "I...
Circle June 3 On Your Calender For Historical Day
Good morning! beautiful weather and lots of green, thanks to the rain. Here today I am sending off the last little news letter for the month of May and I can’t hardly believe it. Time is going way too fast when at the same time some days seem to...
Super Saturday
A capacity crowd gathered in the Longhorn gym on Saturday, May 13, to watch the Kimball graduating class of 2023 receive its diplomas. Recognized as the top 10 percent of their class were...
Welcome Center's Future In Focus
The Kimball County Commissioners’ first item of business on Tuesday, May 16, was to enter into an executive session. The subject of the session focused on real estate negotiations related to the High Point Welcome Center property. No decision was...
Potter-Dix Graduation
Potter-Dix School graduated 15 seniors at a commencement that began at 2 p.m. and was conducted in front of a large crowd of family, relatives, and friends. After introductions and singing the...
Banner County High School
Summer is just right around the corner, but first, there must be graduation. This year's Banner County School commencement ceremony was held on May 13. The graduating class was composed of seven...
The Good, Bad & Ugly Of All That Rain
Good morning, little soggy out there. Although the rain was greatly needed and appreciated by many, so much all at once has caused quite a lot of damage to some of our roads. Water over the roads and creating ditches and lakes where there are not...
A Special Moment
During the Presentation of Roses at Kimball High School's commencement ceremony, salutatorian Emma Patterson shares a special moment with her mom. More Kimball, Potter-Dix and Banner County...
THE KIMBALL KINGS
One of Kimball High School's newest programs, the Kimball Kings eSports team, made it to State. In the program's first year, their League of Legends team ranked fourth in the state. They left for Conc...
Serrano Faces Decades In Prison
William Serrano was sentenced May 2 on four charges, including involuntary manslaughter, two counts of terrorist threats, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. In March, a Kimball County jury of five women and seven men...
Pederson Resigns From Board
Kimball School Board member Chauncey Pederson submitted his letter of resignation to the board and Superintendent Trevor Anderson on Monday evening at the regular board meeting. Pederson’s resignation will be effective May 31. His letter stated,...
Former Kimball Restaurant Owner Jailed After 140 mph Chase
Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol said they have arrested a Kimball woman, Rebecca Brown, 46, former owner of Java Blend in Kimball, following a pursuit on Interstate 80 Thursday evening. At approximately 9:10 p.m. Thursday, a trooper reported...
Hospital About Halfway Done
Construction workers are taking advantage of recent ideal weather conditions for building Kimball's new hospital, but nationwide supply chain issues are likely to delay completion of the $43 million...
COMMUNITY CLEANUP DAY!
Kimball High students helped out in the Observer office’s basement organizing years of bound copies of the Observer from the early 1900s to early 2000s. They organized by taking all the books off...
BANNER COUNTY MUSIC
Banner County High School musicians performed their Spring Concert on Thursday evening. From left in the front row are Amanda Montelongo, Conrad Kaminski, Travis Onstott, Isaac Olsen, Brendyn...