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Clearwater Village Board of Trustees reviewed results of a recent housing survey during the board's March 8 meeting. According to Clearwater Economic Development Director Lauren Sheridan-Simonsen, survey results identify the need for affordable housing as a priority for the village. "The housing shortage has been identified as a priorty for the ED office," she said. The survey evaluated current housing quality, while identifying needs. Included in the results is public comment about housing stoc...
Camryn Prall Nebraska News Service Marty Matlock, chairman of the Cherokee Nation Environmental Protection Commission, talked about Native American natural resource rights in a presentation as part of the Nebraska Water Center's annual Spring Seminar Series on March 3. The series is in partnership with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources. This year, local, national and international speakers are connecting water issues with race, justice, and the environment over Zoom every other week. Jesse Starita, the public r...
Madelyn Meier Nebraska News Service With the 20 below-freezing temperatures that swept Nebraska this winter, most gardeners had a concern: if previously planted perennials would grow this year. For plant lovers and gardeners alike, the snow layers have acted as good insulation against extreme temperatures, protecting most herbaceous perennials. “Snow cover helped keep soil temperatures from reaching the extreme lows, so the roots should still be in good condition and resume normal growth in the spring,” said Kyle Broderick, extension edu...
The Bazile Groundwater Management Area is inviting people to stay inside where it’s warm during an upcoming winter series of one-hour webinars. The three-part series will take place virtually via Zoom at noon on the following Fridays – Feb. 19, Feb. 26 and March 5 – and feature three different speakers. Updates on the BGMA’s University of Nebraska-Lincoln demonstration sites and presentations on soil management strategies and groundwater research taking place within the management area will be...
A popular conference, geared toward women in agriculture, will be held this spring at Northeast Community College. Registration is currently underway for the 12th annual Northeast Community College AG-ceptional Women’s Conference – a daylong event to be held Friday, March 12, originating from the Lifelong Learning Center on the Northeast campus in Norfolk, with opportunities to attend off campus as well. This year’s conference theme is “AGssential.” The AG-ceptional Women’s Conference - northeast Nebraska’s premier event for women in agri...
On a typical Saturday during speech season, students can be found boarding a school bus before the break of dawn, traveling hours to reach a destination to perform. While the possibility of those early morning trips still exist, Summerland speechsters were able to arrive at Saturday's competition site within minutes of leaving home. Instead of competing at Wisner-Pilger Public School, speakers performed virtually via Zoom, at the Ewing site, in W-P's annual Practice Makes Perfekt meet....
Summerland Public School Board of Education held a regular meeting, Jan. 11, 2021, at the Clearwater site. President Ed Nordby called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m., and noted the Open Meetings Act posted n the room. Roll call taken. Present: Marty Kerkman, Ed Nordby, Nate Schwager, Steven Thiele, Jeremy Wagner. Absent: Candice Hoke. Motion by Kerkman, seconded by Thiele, to approve the absence of board member Hoke. Voting aye: Kerkman, Nordby, Schwager, Thiele, Wagner. Nay: none. Absent: Hoke. Motion carried 5-0-1. Motion by Thiele,...
JERRY KANE Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Staying warm and comfortable while on the ice will go a long way toward ensuring you have a fun outing ice-fishing. The conditions will determine exactly how you will want to dress, but, regardless, you should dress in layers. The reason? You'll want to stay warm, and you'll need to avoid sweating. Getting set up for fishing – or moving to new fishing areas on the ice – is where you can work up a sweat. This includes carrying or dragging your gea...
Even in the best of times, staging a live performance requires suspension of belief, pulling audience members into a mystical realm situated beyond the fourth wall. This year - 2020 - may be remembered as the worst of times for aspiring performers, as concerns about safety take center stage. Summerland School's play production team and coaches have learned to adapt to on- and off-stage challenges so the show may go on. Director Julie Harley said the initial adaptation came with play selection....
Joel Schrader, 49, of Martell appeared before the Honorable Mark Kozisek in the Holt County district courtroom in O’Neill for sentencing Nov. 23, for crime committed in 2018. Kozisek sentenced Schrader to 24 months incarceration under the jurisdiction of the Nebraska Department of Corrections, to be served consecutive to a sentence imposed in Lancaster County district court. Assuming Schrader loses none of his good time, he must serve 12 months before his mandatory release. In addition, Kozisek ordered 12-months post-release supervision, includ...
Together, and only together, Nebraskans can rebuild the state’s struggling child care system, which is reeling during COVID-19. We can do it in a way that makes age-old problems, like a statewide shortage of quality child care, largely disappear. And we can do it in a way that benefits families, companies, communities and our state economy. That was the message Nebraskans delivered to the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee at a recent hearing. Child care providers, the University of Nebraska’s president, business leaders and experts made...
Last week, I spent part of Thursday, Friday and Saturday meeting colleagues via Zoom, taking part in sessions of the National Newspaper Conference. The socially-distanced version offered multiple chances for sharpening skills and networking with newspaper publishers and reporters from across the United States. The event renewed nearly all of the ethics I believe are key to providing community journalism. And, several sessions left me re-evaluating some ideas newspapers use because “it’s the way...
PROCEEDINGS Summerland Public School Board of Education Sept. 14, 2020 Summerland Public School Board of Education held a regular meeting, Sept. 14, 2020, at the Orchard site. President Ed Nordby called the regular meeting that was duly published in Antelope County News on Sept. 9, 2020, to order at 7:21 p.m. Nordby noted the Open Meetings Act posted in the room. Roll call was taken with all members present: Candice Hoke, Marty Kerkman, Ed Nordby, Nate Schwager, Steve Thiele, Jeremy Wagner. Motion by Schwager, seconded by Kerkman, to approve th...
Ronald E. Frazier, 48, of Neligh faced the Honorable Mark Johnson in the Antelope County district courtroom last Wednesday, Aug. 26, for arraignment on count of making terroristic threats. Frazier faces a possible penalty, if convicted of the Class 3A felony alleged July 6 at a Neligh bar, of up to three years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine, or both. Accompanied by public defender Patrick Carney of Norfolk, Frazier entered a not guilty plea. Pretrial hearing is set Sept. 30, with a jury trial scheduled for Jan. 19, 2021. Bond, in the...
The ability to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions is the definition of the adjective resilient. Since March, resiliency has been shown on many levels, at many ages and in many different situations. Whether being released from a job, experiencing financial struggles, sent home from school, forced to homeschool, battling an illness or standing by someone’s side as they fight an illness, nothing has been easy. Since March, life as we know it has been turned upside down, s...
Summerland Advocate-Messenger publisher, LuAnn Schindler, earned three awards and partnered with SAM designer Jenna Hemenway for a fourth honor, during the National Federation of Press Women's virtual Professional Communications Contest ceremony, Saturday, June 6. Usually the culminating activity of the organization's annual convention, this year's ceremony was held on Zoom, with approximately 200 members logging in. Schindler took top honors in personality profile, less than 500 words. Her...
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture and Legal Aid of Nebraska are hosting free farm finance clinics in June. The clinics are one-on-one, not group sessions, and are confidential. The legal and financial clinic gives farmers a chance to meet with an experienced ag law attorney and farm financial counselor. Clinic staff specialize in legal and economic issues related to farming and ranching, including business planning, estate and transition planning, farm loan programs, debtor/creditor law and other relevant matters. It is an opportunity to o...
Antelope County’s rural residents, who hoped for answers to deteriorating paved roads at a special meeting of the county commissioners last week, will have to wait a while longer. After spending nearly four hours of dialog with road superintendent Aaron Boggs, part-time foreman and former superintendent Casey Dittrich and engineer Brian McDonald, the five commissioners tabled action to borrow funds for repairs. The May 22 meeting at the courthouse in Neligh was transmitted via Zoom to the basement meeting room to accommodate an excess of 10 a...
Freshman year cut short. These four words pretty much sum up what my college experience, being sent home, meant to me. Don’t get me wrong; I absolutely love it back home. In the same sense, it would be an understatement to say I’m bummed. This is the time we’re supposed to start spreading our wings and figuring out where we want to go and who we want to be. Freshman year of college includes a lot of new experiences. While attending Wayne State College, I have already created many life-long frien...
Too many holes in the road to count. That's the situation on 516 Avenue, in a one-mile section from the Elkhorn River Bridge, north to the intersection of 853 Road. The condition of this stretch of county road isn't the only section of asphalt requiring attention. Individuals who drive 851 Road on a regular basis compare driving on certain parts of the road, especially between 510 and 513 avenues, to "bouncing around on a pinball machine." These are just two examples of disrepair of asphalt...
Instead of watching the big screen at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln for the announcement of the State FFA student leadership, Alyssa Moser, of Clearwater, discovered she was one of seven students selected as a state leader while she sat with family in their home's living room, via a Zoom call, May 7. Moser, an O'Neill Public Schools senior, will serve as one of five vice presidents for the largest student-run organization in the world. Moser's introduction to FFA began as a sophomore when she...
The purchase of a refrigerated semi-trailer and the county fund it was paid from were among matters of contention at the Antelope County commissioners' meeting last week. All five commissioners, several other county officials and others were present in the courthouse meeting room May 5 and the meeting was shared electronically via Zoom. Some of those present were asked to step into the hall at one point, when more than 10 were observed in the room. Jared Reimers addressed the commissioners...
Orchard school board members completed their final business for the school Monday, May 4. Orchard advisory board members Candice Hoke, Nate Schwager, Kristi Schutt and DeAnna Clifton were joined by Unified District #1 representatives Terri Hergert and Terra Williby to wrap up district business remotely via Zoom. Hoke and Schwager will continue to serve as board members on the new Summerland consolidated district’s board of education, while tenures of the other board members will end when the new board is seated in June. The only official b...
Summerland oversight/board committee will meet. Wednesday, May 20, at 6 p.m., via Zoom. Zoom meeting address is https://zoom.us/j/92817511160. Agenda items include: • Design update; options for new school • Zoning/roads update • Bond update • Partial GMP amendment • Summerland accounts update • Staffing update for 2020-2021 • ALICAP presentation • Policy and procedures for 2020-2021 • Activities update The tentative agenda contains a list of subjects known at the time of distribution. A copy of the agenda, reflecting any changes, will be...
By Terri Hahn With social distancing still the norm and the common sense move of "shelter in place," a big family gathering to celebrate Mom, Grandma and other important women in our lives probably isn't going to happen on a grand scale this year. That doesn't mean we can't celebrate Mother's Day, no doubt it's going to be different. FaceTime and Zoom conferencing don't replace actual one-on-one contact of course, but in these uncertain times, that's the best thing to do. And of course, they...
