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The Clearwater Rough Stock Challenge will add a few new features for its fourth-annual event, Saturday, Aug. 17. Competition is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m., in the Gene Snodgrass Arena, located along West Highway 275. A calcutta will be held at 7 p.m., prior to the first event. Elgin Livestock auctioneer, Ted Baum, will handle auction duties. Justin Rumford, 10-time PRCA Pro Rodeo Clown of the Year will entertain the crowd between riders. "He'll be a hit with the crowd," said chamber president...
Clearwater village officials have been given the go-ahead from an Antelope County court to proceed with cleaning up a junk-ridden lot that has long been considered a nuisance. District court judge James Kube entered the order last Wednesday, allowing the village to cause cleanup of property owned by CW and Amy Schonemann, at 307 Montana Street, and charge Schonemanns for expense incurred. The order came after a tense hearing in the Antelope County district courtroom in Neligh. CW Schonemann was committed to the Antelope County Jail in Neligh...
At first glance, the mural adorning the wall in the Bunker Bar, inside the newly-remodeled Clearwater Legion, looks familiar. Artist Shannon Schumacher of Clearwater said there are slight differences to the original version he painted nearly a decade ago. "The sky is different," he said. "And the arch of the bunker." When he first met with Clearwater Sons of the American Legion officials to discuss the original design, a bunker was mentioned. Schumacher drew inspiriation for the bunker from a...
The countdown for the first day of the 2024-2025 school year is underway, as Summerland Public School students will return to class, Thursday, Aug. 15. A 1:30 p.m. dismissal is scheduled that day. Staff members will report to work for staff development Aug. 12 to 14. Families of students in preschool through sixth grade are invited to an open house, Wednesday, Aug. 14, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The Bobcat Booster club will host a burger bash, Wednesday, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., at the school. Preschool...
The United States Geological Survey and agencies from four states recently announced low-level airplane flights in the Central Great Plains. Scientists from Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska are partnering to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The aircraft and crews being used are currently being flown out of the O'Neill Airport. The geophysical survey will focus on the buried Spirit Lake tectonic zone, centered in the area between Sioux Fall sand Omaha. The region is...
The Antelope County 4-H shows I viewed were a lot of fun. You could tell members invested a lot of time and energy in their projects. And, despite the heat, animals mostly cooperated. I wish I had been able to see the other shows. Instead, I was battling an infection and made multiple trips to the emergency room to receive IV fluids and antibiotics. The descent into sickness began Tuesday, once the paper was put to bed. A quick whoosh of something washed over me and, within minutes, a 103° fever...
This week, the Legislature concluded bill introduction and public hearings in this special session. Generally, in a special session, few bills are introduced and public hearings are finished in a couple of days. In this special session, a total of 81 bills and 24 constitutional amendments were introduced during three days of bill introduction, the most proposed during any special session since 1937. The large number of introduced proposals required six days of public hearings. Speaker Arch...
Summer is usually a relaxing time in Lincoln. College students have left, state lawmakers have gone home, the weather gets hot, the backyard tomatoes get ripe, and the biggest debate around town is whether this is the year the Huskers become relevant again in football. Optimism always abounds in the pre-season, before the first kickoff. But not sure the same optimism accompanies the special session Gov. Jim Pillen has convened to address the state's traditionally high property taxes. Every...
Jackie Poulsen, also known as Jack Poulsen, 71, of Ericson was sentenced Aug. 1, in federal court in Lincoln, for bank fraud, United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced recently. U.S. District Judge Susan Bazis sentenced Poulsen to 18 months' imprisonment with five years of supervised release to follow. There is no parole in the federal system. Poulsen was additionally ordered to pay $815,000 in restitution. Poulsen was the president of Ericson State Bank from June 2010 until September 2019....
Phil Whitmarsh starts a lot of conversations with an offbeat question: Have you ever played a 500-year-old guitar? Eventually, he'll hand you Mary Kate. The instrument resembles a Fender Telecaster, the six-string synonymous with Americana twang and favored by artists like Bruce Springsteen. Mary Kate looks and plays like a Telecaster, but the sound is different. It's the wood, says Whitmarsh. That wood once helped hold up the old Woolworth warehouse in Omaha's historic Old Market. In a few...
Graduate and undergraduate degrees will be conferred for 200 summer graduates at University of Nebraska at Kearney commencement exercises, Friday, Aug. 9, at UNK’s Health and Sports Center. Presley Jeanne Darlene Young, of Orchard, will receive a Master of Arts Degree in education, curriculum and instruction and Summerland principal Jacob Birch, O’Neill, will receive a Master of Arts Degree in education, school principalship 7-12....
United States Attorney Susan Lehr recently announced that Moody Motor Co., Inc., located in Niobrara, was sentenced on July 31, in federal court in Omaha, for accessory after the fact to a Clean Air Act violation. U.S. District Court Judge Susan M. Bazis sentenced Moody Motor Co., Inc. to a one-year term of probation, a $39,741.95 fine and a $125 special assessment. Moody Motor is a certified Ford dealership. In addition to selling new and used vehicles, Moody Motor has a vehicle service department. The company has been in operation since...
Meat processors have until Sept. 1 to apply for participation in the charitable Hunters Helping the Hungry program for 2024-2025, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. The program pays participating processors to accept and process deer donated by hunters. This program serves Nebraskans in need as processors deliver ground venison to participating food banks. The application form is available at OutdoorNebraska.gov/HHH. Processors can apply to participate in any or all the Nebraska 2024-2025 deer hunting seasons. Contact Jordyn...
Everyone we know, meet, or pass in the grocery store has their own set of personal life experiences that are unique from our own. We all come from different places, have our own set of genetics, and have different parents or families, which is part of what makes us unique from each other. We can even have different experiences than our siblings who grow up in the same home as us. Our experiences are part of what help us learn, create adaptations to the world around us, and how we continue to...
A 21-year-old O’Neill woman who had been given an opportunity to avoid prison, has given up that chance and will spend up to four years in prison. McKenzie A. Dow faced the Honorable Mark Kozisec in the Holt County district courtroom in O’Neill last Monday, July 29, to be sentenced for crimes committed in June 2022. Dow had pleaded guilty Dec. 12, 2022, to Count I, theft by receiving stolen property, a Class 2 misdemeanor; Count II, possession of a financial transaction device, a Class 4 felony; Count III, criminal possession of a fin...
Nebraskans are reminded to check the mail this week if they regularly vote early in Nebraska elections and filed a standing request with their county election commissioner to do so again. Election commissioners in Douglas, Lancaster and many other Nebraska counties recently mailed ballot request cards to people on their regular early voter lists. Douglas County has mailed out 160,000 cards. Lancaster County mailed out 64,000 of its blue postcards Friday. People can return the early voting...
Wildlife officials say conditions in certain areas of Nebraska are suitable for the spread of deadly viral diseases among big game populations. They are asking the public to report unexplained death or illnesses of deer, pronghorn, elk and bighorn sheep. Observations of unhealthy big game animals or unexplained deaths should be reported to the nearest Nebraska Game and Parks Commission office. Locations include Alliance, Bassett, Kearney, Gretna, North Platte, Lincoln, Omaha and Norfolk. In big...
VILLAGE OF EWING BOARD OF TRUSTEES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ewing Village Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m., on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, at the city hall. This meeting will be open to the public. An agenda is kept continuously current and available for public inspection at the office of the village clerk. Except for items of an emergency nature, the agenda shall not be enlarged later than 24 hours before the scheduled commencement of the meeting. Published August 7, 2024 ZNEZ...
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING AND BUDGET HEARING NORTH CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENT BOARD OF HEALTH North Central District Health Department’s Board of Health will hold two separate open-session meetings at NCDHD, locted at 422 E. Douglas St., O’Neill on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. The public hearing on the proposed 24-25 annual budget will begin at 10:30 a.m. The public is invited to provide comment in accordance with state statutes (§13-506). The general busmiess meeting will follow. Current agendas are available at the NCDHD office. Publ...
NOTICE OF MEETING SUMMERLAND PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Summerland Public School Board of Education will be held Monday, Aug. 12, at 7 p.m., in the school board room and will be open to the public. An agenda is kept continuously current and available for public inspection at the administrative office. Except for items of an emergency nature, the agenda shall not be enlarged later than 24 hours before the scheduled commencement of the meeting. The Summerland Board of Education reserves the...
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT VRDG, LLC Commercial Solar Conversion System The Holt County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing Aug. 22, 2024, at 7 p.m., during its meeting in the Holt County Annex, 128 North 6th Street, O’Neill, Nebraska 68763, to review and provide a recommendation to the board of supervisors on the application for conditional use permit filed by VRDG, LLC, for a commercial solar conversion system in Knox County and Holt County, approximately 10 miles west and northwest of Verdigre. At the p...
NOTICE OF MEETING HOLT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION The Holt County Planning Commission will hold a regular meeting on Aug, 22, 2024, immediately following the public hearing that is scheduled at 7 p.m., at the Holt County Annex, 128 North 6th Street, O’Neill, Nebraska. This meeting is open to the public. Agendas are kept continuously current and are available at the office of the County Clerk in the Holt County Courthouse, O’Neill, Nebraska. Published August 7, 2024 ZNEZ...
NOTICE OF MEETING VILLAGE OF PAGE, NEBRASKA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a meeting of the chairman and board of trustees of the Village of Page, Nebraska, will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, at the village office. This meeting will be open to the public. An agenda for such meeting, kept continuously current, is available for inspection at the office of the village clerk for the Village of Page. A complete agenda is posted no later than 24 hours prior to the meeting and may be viewed at www.pagene.us or pagenebraska.com. Published...
Joaquin S. Echeverria, 28, of Brenham, Texas, (in custody) appeared in the Antelope County district courtroom in Neligh on July 31 for further arraignment on a Class 1C felony, possession of more than 28 grams of methamphetamine, with intent to deliver. If convicted, he faces up to 50 years of incarceration, with a five-year mandatory minimum. No good time is awarded to mandatory minimum time. He pleaded not guilty and requested jury trial. The Honorable James Kube set pretrial hearing Aug. 28 and jury trial, Oct. 21. Echeverria is represented...
