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Funeral services for Eleanor Hemenway, 89,of Neligh, will be Thursday, Sept. 17, at 10:30 a.m., at St. Francis Catholic Church, in Neligh, with Father Pat Nields officiating. Burial will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 5 to 7 p.m., at St. Francis Catholic Church, with a 7 p.m. wake service. Beyer Snider Memorial Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Eleanor died Sept. 13 at her daughter’s home near Monroe, surrounded by family. Condolences may be d...
After a week filled with seven matches, the Lady Bobcats capped off Saturday play with a sweep at the Creighton Invite, laying claim to first place. Tuesday triangular On Sept. 8, Summerland hosted a triangular with Niobrara/Verdigre and Stuart, in Orchard, after EPPJ was unable to host their regular-scheduled double triangular, following a positive COVID-19 case. Summerland made short work of Niobrara/Verdigre, winning 25-11 and 25-2. Brenna Wagner and Emily Nordby finished with seven kills api...
People who want to enjoy an agricultural field day that will feature a variety of topics will soon will have the chance. A demonstration field day will be held 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Sept. 9, at the Bazile Groundwater Management Area’s soil health site near Creighton. To find the soil health site, people will need to travel two miles south of Creighton on Nebraska Highway 13, turn east onto 870 Road and travel three-fourths of a mile. The outdoor event, during which social distancing will be...
Cancer cannot keep Barb Roland out of the classroom. The K-6 Title I teacher and literacy coordinator for Summerland Public School in Ewing has been battling various oral cancers for the past 11 years. However, that has not stopped the Oakdale woman from teaching and working with students, which is her passion. "I enjoy helping children grow and learn," Roland said. "My doctor told me to do what I love, and this is it. I am taking precautions with COVID, as we all are doing." Her battle with...
Only one of the three Summerland Public Schools sites has seen much in the way of building repair projects this summer. The school locations in Clearwater, Ewing and Orchard underwent normal summer cleaning, repair and maintenance, according to Superintendent Dale Martin. "In addition to that, there have been some building repair projects necessary to get us to the next step," Martin said. "The Orchard site has a sewer project where a line was getting plugged fairly regularly last year during...
The family of Marvin and Maxine Haswell request a card shower to celebrate the couple's 70th wedding anniversary, Thursday, Aug. 13. Their family includes son Scott and wife, Sherilyn, of Delavan, Wisconsin; son Brett and wife, Cheryl, of Aledo, Texas; daughter Angela Kummer and husband, Larry, of Creighton; 12 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Cards will reach the couple at P.O. Box 94, Orchard, NE 68764....
The Antelope County commissioners voted, last week, to issue $3 million in bonds to repair county roads. All five commissioners voted aye to a motion made by commissioner Carolyn Pedersen, seconded by commissioner Eli Jacob, late in an eight-hour meeting at the courthouse in Neligh on July 14. Proceeds from bonds will allow county employees to complete projects totaling more than $2.5 million yet this calendar year, road superintendent Aaron Boggs told the Advocate-Messenger. "Big-money" overlay...
SUBMITTED ARTICLE Filips Vision Source of Hartington and Creighton recently announced winners of the O Say Can You See American Flag photo contest. Northeast Nebraska residents were asked to show American pride by sending in a photo of an American flag from their community. Ewing residents answered the call, submitting 34 flags, putting the village in second place for 2020. Wynot residents submitted 49 photos and Boelus residents, 19, to round out the top three. Each community will receive a...
The family of Marvin Haswell request a card shower to celebrate his 90th birthday on June 27. His family includes wife, Maxine; sons, Scott (Sherilyn) of Delavan, WI, Brett (Cheryl) of Aledo, TX, daughter, Angela (Larry) Kummer of Creighton, NE; 12 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Cards will reach Marvin at P.O. Box 94 • Orchard, NE 68764....
Nebraska School Activities Association recently released student recipients of the Spring 2019-20 Nebraska Chriopractic Physicans Association Academic All-State award. To be nominated, a student must be a varsity player or organizational leader who has played a significant role during the season and must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 93%, or 3.7, on a four-point scale. Area students honored include James Kester and Eli Thiele, Clearwater, boys' track and field; Charlie Anson...
Prepared. Diane Carlin, chief executive officer of Antelope Memorial Hospital, used the word to describe staff members' efforts to be prepared if the health care facility in Neligh is faced with an influx of COVID-19 patients. "We've done a lot of good work here at the hospital to be prepared. That's been a best part of this - the coming together of staff," Carlin said during a telephone interview Monday afternoon. She said the hospital has had several trial runs with testing patients and have...
Three football players with ties to area schools have been selected for the Northeast Nebraska All-Star Classic. OC's Eli Macke will join Clay Curtis of Royal, who plays for the Creighton Bulldogs and Josh Klabenes, of the CWCE Renegades, in the June 13 classic. The game will be played at Veteran's Memorial Field in Norfolk. Kickoff is scheduled for 12 p.m. Mike Sunderman, president of the event's board of directors stated the board will continue to plan for the game. A final decision will be...
Douglas D. Carpenter, 43, of Neligh, who was scheduled to face the Honorable Donna Taylor for a bench trial in the Antelope County courtroom Monday, March 23, reached a plea agreement with prosecutor Joe Abler. Carpenter had pleaded not guilty in October 2019 to Count I, stalking, a Class 1 misdemeanor; Count II, disturbing the peace, a Class 3 misdemeanor; and Count III, resisting arrest, a Class 1 misdemeanor. Per terms of the agreement, Carpenter pleaded no contest to an amended Count I, criminal attempt – stalking, a Class 2 misdemeanor, a...
Aaron Boggs of Creighton, who has served as foreman of Antelope County's road department for about a year, was hired to head the department when the county commissioners met at the courthouse in Neligh on March 10. The commissioners entered closed session to consider applications, after an announcement by chairman Charlie Henery just before 11 a.m. "I have to leave by noon or so," he said. "So, we need to go into executive session to talk about personal employee stuff. We need a motion to do...
Jackie Olivan may be the funniest girl around. Judges in the Niobrara Valley Conference voted her the top speaker in entertainment speaking during the conference meet, March 2, at Keya Paha School in Sprinview. Olivan was the lone Cyclone medalist in the 14-team meet. On March 7, the OC squad traveled to Creighton for the Bulldog Invitational. Olivan placed third in entertainment speaking in regular finals. In the next-in finals grouping, the oral interpretation of drama team comprised of...
Ewing speech team individuals placed in five events at Saturday’s Creighton Speech Invitational. Twenty-one teams participated and Ewing finished eighth in team standings. Speakers qualified for championship finals in three events. Elizabeth Nordby earned bronze in poetry interpretation, while Katie Hawk finished third in humorous prose. The OID team of Skylar Eacker, Kyra Nilson, Emily Nordby, Elizabeth Nordby and Hawk earned fourth place medals. Two individuals qualified for the next-in finals. Sidney Stallbaum received the silver medal in e...
Six Holt County supervisors listened as nearly 50 citizens presented testimony last Friday afternoon. A public hearing regarding TC Energy's application for a pipeline construction permit was held in the district courtroom at the Holt County courthouse. Pipeline opponents, from elementary students to 90-year-old grandparents, packed the courtroom, filling approximately 100 seats, and spilled out to the second-floor hallway. Speakers were called in order of sign-up, which had begun in the morning...
Christofer N. Carstens, 21, of Oakdale was found guilty of felony child abuse last Wednesday when he appeared before the Honorable Mark Johnson in the Antelope County district court in Neligh. A plea agreement was reached, resulting in Carstens pleading no contest to the crime in exchange for prosecutor, Joe Abler’s agreement to file no further charges in the case and to recommend no more than 20 years imprisonment at sentencing, which is set April 29. Johnson ordered a presentence investigation report. Accused of injuring his infant d...
The Ewing Tiger speech team tied for second with Stuart in the O/C Whirlwind Invitational speech meet, Feb. 29. Creighton won the meet Kyra Nilson earned gold in serious prose. Katie Hawk and Sidney Stallbaum finished first in duet acting, while Nilson and Emily Nordby ended fourth. Hawk claimed the gold medal in humorous prose. Stallbaum finished second in entertainment speaking and third in persuasive speaking. Three speakers placed in poetry interpretation: Elizabeth Nordby, third; Natalie Stallbaum, fourth and Olga Mendoza, sixth. The oral...
Three citizen meetings have been scheduled in the Bazile Groundwater Management Area. The goal of these meetings is to have everyone who lives, works or farms within the Bazile Groundwater Management Area participate in a discussion about the water-quality issue in the area that includes the communities of Brunswick, Bazile Mills, Creighton, Foster, Orchard, Osmond, Plainview, Royal, Wausa and Winnetoon. The meetings are an opportunity to voice an opinion and concerns regarding groundwater contamination throughout the area. Meeting dates and lo...
Bobcat football will face a challenging schedule during its inaugural season, according to football coach Jeff Shabram. The Nebraska School Activities Association released schedules for the 2020 and 2021 seasons last Wednesday. Summerland will open the 2020 season at Elkhorn Valley. In week two, Summerland will host St. Mary's and travel to CWC in week three. Weeks four and five will feature home contests against West Holt and Neligh-Oakdale, respectively. The Bobcats will face North Central in...
It was a meet of firsts. First districts competing as Summerland Bobcats. And for the first time in Summerland history, two wrestlers will don the blue and silver singlets at the Nebraska School Activities Association State Wrestling Championships. Colton Thiele and Rafe Grebin finished second and fourth, respectively, in their weight classes, to advance to this week's state party at the CHI Health Arena in Omaha. The Bobcats ended 11th in a field of 20 teams in Class D District one...
The Holt County supervisors spent nearly two hours at a meeting last week, reviewing a road-haul agreement brought to the table by TC Energy representatives last October, paragraph by paragraph, despite having a new agreement drafted by Dave Domina in hand. The scrutiny came after Holt County attorney Brent Kelly presented a preliminary agreement drafted by the Omaha attorney who was hired by the county officials on a 4-2 vote Oct. 31, 2019, to negotiate a road-haul agreement with TC Energy. At Kelly’s suggestion, the supervisors held an execut...
The Summerland Bobcats will face Neligh-Oakdale in the first round of post-season play in the Class C2-6 subdistrict. The teams will meet at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 24, at O'Neill High School. The Bobcats enter as the fifth seed, with a record of 2-18, while the Warriors are seeded fourth. Their record is 3-17. The winner of Monday's game will advance to a 6 p.m. game against Creighton on Tuesday, Feb. 25. The Bulldogs, 13-8, enter as the top seed. The 7:45 p.m. contest will feature Ainsworth,...
A trip to the 2020 Nebraska School Activities Association State Wrestlng Championships will be on the line for Summerland wrestlers when district competition begins Friday, at 3 p.m., in Plainview. Competition will continue Saturday, Feb. 15, at 10 a.m. In addition to Summerland, schools participating in the Class D-1 district include Arapahoe, Brady, Burwell, Cambridge, Clarkson-Leigh, Creighton, Elgin Public/Pope John, Elkhorn Valley, Fullerton, Meridian, Neligh-Oakdale, Niobrara/Verdigre,...
