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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Some extra effort on the track and in the field events last Thursday lifted the Lady Longhorn track team to the runner-up C-11 District title. With some solid performances, the team is also sending four girls to the...
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There is room for about 10 more students in the driver’s education program at Chase County Schools (CCS) this summer. As of Monday 40 students had signed up, while the capacity is 50. There will be two sessions offered this summer, either June 5-14 or J...
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By Ryan QuamBST Racing For the second time this year, racers took to the Phillips County Raceway in Holyoke, Colo. to duke it out on the dirt track Saturday, May 11. New lights were put up in the corners to help the view. The track was in great shape with...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Seven athletes at Chase County Schools have been named as Academic All-State Award recipients by the Nebraska School Activities Association. The seven were recognized at last week’s 7-12 academic awards program by A...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Imperial Manor has been celebrating National Nursing Home Week—May 12-18—in several ways. Balloons have been launched. Staff at the Manor have been wearing crazy things all week, such as pajamas on Monday, crazy h...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Twenty-five of the 29 graduates in the CCS Class of 2013 will be helped with college expenses next year and beyond thanks to scholarships. The scholarship funds, included as an insert in the program distributed at Sat...
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The spring concert featuring four different instrumental groups at Chase County Schools gave their spring concert Monday, their finale of the 2012-13 school year. Individual performances were given by the high school concert band, the high school’s Si...
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Paving on both projects expected to start in July
By Jan Schultz
The Imperial Republican
With work starting this summer on the street pavings in Sage Addition in northwest Imperial and on East 2nd Street in the Cornerstone property, city council ...
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By Lori Pankonin
The Imperial Republican
Four educators from Brazil and their team leader visited Imperial Tuesday as part of a Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE) to share ideas. In turn, a Nebraska team from District 5630 will visit the Brazil Distri...
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By Carolyn Lee
The Imperial Republican
The traditional Chase County Schools colors of orange and black will be mingled with silver when the seniors walk down the aisle Saturday. Those are the colors of the Class of 2013, graduating when the ceremony be...
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Water is being released to Kansas from Harlan County Reservoir as part of Nebraska’s ongoing efforts to comply with the three-state Republican River Compact.
The release of approximately 20,000 acre-feet of water from Harlan County Lake Wednesday, Ma...
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By Jan Schultz
The Imperial Republican
A special presentation came Wednesday morning during the Chase County Schools’ senior class meeting, with a resounding “we want you back” message.
Members of the senior class, which will graduate Saturda...
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The Chase County Schools elementary vocal concerts will be split in two this month, with younger children performing May 16 and older ones on May 20.
Grades K-1 will be presenting “Bugz” May 16 at 6 p.m. During a picnic the ladybugs tell everyone h...
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By Carolyn Lee
The Imperial Republican
The new president of First Bank & Trust Company in Imperial is David Fulton, currently of Wilcox. He will begin his duties May 13, replacing Ryan Richmond, who took another position in Nebraska.
Fulton, 53, ...
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While not as many participated as in other years, a good number of Imperial area citizens took advantage of a free household hazardous waste pick-up on Saturday, April 27. City Public Works Supt. Pat Davison, in front left, said most residents dropped off...
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Telephone conference report held on Tuesday, May 7
By Russ Pankonin
The Imperial Republican
Holdrege Senator Tom Carlson’s bill, LB 517, to create a new Water Sustainability Project Task Force will likely come up for final reading this week, Sen. ...
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Pheasants Forever, local FSA and NRCS offices and Nebraska Game and Parks will be hosting a series of informational meetings about the upcoming General Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) sign-up.
This general CRP sign-up will begin May 20 and continues...
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At left, Gisele Barger of Imperial, second from right, was delighted to join the young educators from her home country of Brazil who visited Imperial on a Rotary Group Study Exchange Tuesday. Pictured from left, are Christiane Lobo, Giselle Queiroz, Felic...
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By Russ Pankonin, The Imperial Republican
On last week’s Opinion page, we reprinted an editorial by the Lincoln Journal-Star on the issue of the state paying surface water irrigation users for water they have lost this year.
In April, the Department...
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Last week, Joe Hahn, a Syngenta agronomist from Junction City, Kan., was applying varying rates of fungicide to the Syngenta wheat plot on the Tom Luhrs farm northeast of Enders. Hahn said they’re wanting to measure fungicide application rates to see wh...
