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Accompanied by their dad, Lloyd, 10-year-old Tory Stott and 12-year-old Dominique Stott ventured over to the fairgrounds Monday evening to try out the new kite Dominique got from her brother for her 12th birthday this week. After several days of much-need...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Irrigators in the Upper Republican Natural Resources District (URNRD) will get to voice their opinions on a new transfer rule May 5. The NRD will hold a hearing on the transfer rule during their regular...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican As of the first of June, the Chase County Extension Office will be in new headquarters in Imperial. At their April 14 meeting, the Chase County Commissioners signed a contract that will lease the former NR...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican The Imperial Republican repeated this year as one of the three winners of the Omaha World-Herald’s (OWH) Service to Agriculture award. The award was presented by OWH Publisher Terry Kroeger and Gov. D...
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Managers of local lounges still debating how their outlets will comply with new state lawBy Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican As of June 1, all Nebraska indoor worksites are to be smoke-free. In February of 2008, LB 395 was passed by the Nebraska L...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican After 32 years of teaching, 20 of those at Chase County Schools, Jane Lenners is eagerly planning life after retirement. She submitted her resignation as Title I teacher in the elementary school recently. ...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican New playground equipment has been set up at the new Imperial Swimming Pool site, with more to be installed at Campbell Park this weekend. The equipment at Campbell Park was to have been erected last weeken...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican The Bureau of Reclamation will receive stimulus funds to refurbish the outlet tube at Enders Dam. The Department of Interior, of which the Bureau is a part, will receive $1 billion in stimulus funds to ...
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Council, rural fire board, commissioners to meet with committee April 27By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Progress on a new building that could house the Imperial Volunteer Fire Department (IVFD), Imperial EMS and the county emergency manager ha...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Adding a new “life skills” segment into the Chase County School’s special education program is being considered by the Chase County School board of education. Supt. Matt Fisher floated the idea at th...
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the Blackwood Creek watershed south of Hayes Center is among 55 watershed projects nationwide receiving USDA stimulus funding. Vilsack said $2 million dollars is committed to a Blackwood Creek wa...
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Southwest Nebraska Weed Management Area (SWWMA) will receive $300,000 from the Nebraska Environmental Trust for the Republican River Riparian Improvement Project. The Trust Board announced funding for the project at its meeting on April 2, i...
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“Ag Lender Magazine” recently unveiled its annual ranking of the nation’s “Top 100 Ag Banks” in its April 2009 publication. At the top of the list was Nebraska-based, family-owned Pinnacle Bank. Pinnacle was honored with the title o...
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The Nebraska Public Service Commission issued a consumer alert regarding possible violations of the federal Do-Not-Call rules by a company soliciting new or extended automobile warranties. These telemarketing calls have been received on both wirele...
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While tree windbreaks may last for 50 years or more, some older windbreaks may need renovation because of reduced effectiveness due to age, poor health or neglect, says Dennis Adams, forester with the Nebraska Forest Service. There are some q...
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■ Editor’s note: This article is one in a series about the concept and use of no tillage farming methods.By Mark WatsonPanhandle No Till Educator The producers and NRCS soil conservationists from North Dakota have shared with me the recip...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican If the lines at the take-out window, plus the cars dotting the parking lot are any clue, JJ’s is a busy place since opening last week. JJ’s is the former Sweden Creme, now owned by Jennifer Bell and Ja...
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LORI PANKONIN is co-publisher of Johnson Publications newspapers in Imperial, Wauneta and Grant, and part-owner of the Holyoke Enterprise in Holyoke, Colo. E-mail: ljpank@chase 3000.com We were working with a consultant from Lincoln who had come to help u...
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By Jan Schultz, The Imperial Republican News EditorBloated budgets and trillions in debt that our federal government is amassing are what last week’s “tea parties” across the country were organized to protest. You might think differently, thou...
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The tour guides who man the I-80 rest stops took a trip around Chase County Saturday, as part of an educational experience. Chase County Tourism Coordinator and Marketing Director Claudette Swanson showed them the Wauneta Roller Mills and Chateau Theater ...
