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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican There will be bugs in the Children’s Theatre Company of South Dakota’s musical performance this weekend, but they won’t be problem bugs. They’ll be fireflies and scorpions, along with penguins, cactus pl...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Following more than four months of discussion, the board of the Upper Republican Natural Resources District (URNRD) board forwarded transfer rules for a public hearing. The public hearing on the clarifi...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican It’s easy to read into the comments from Eldon Kuntzelman, a Nebraska Army National Guardsman in Afghanistan, that he thoroughly believes in their agribusiness mission there. Kuntzelman of Imperial is pa...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Classroom teachers in the K-6 grades at Chase County Schools and administrators appear excited about a new language arts program that will be instituted during the 2009-2010 school year. School board membe...
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One of spring’s big events at Chase County Schools is the Prom. This year, the event is arriving much earlier, this Saturday night in fact. In the past, the Prom here has been scheduled the end of April or early May. This week, members of the junior c...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican For the past 17 years, the Nebraska Department of Education has matched federal funding for programs under the Career Education Student Organizations. Those include FFA, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Kody Weiss of Imperial couldn’t imagine why he was getting phone calls after last week’s paper came out. Callers were asking Weiss about the registered sex offender living at his address. Wei...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Costs for a number of city public works projects were discussed with Kent Cordes of Miller & Associates at last week’s city council meeting. Paving projects on East 5th and East 9th Sts., the laying of a...
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Southwest Nebraska Community Betterment Corporation (SWNCBC) in Grant has received $100,000 in Nebraska Affordable Housing Trust Fund money to continue providing a down payment and closing cost assistance program to help 10 individuals in Perkins, ...
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Dan Steinkruger, Acting State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Nebraska, reminds producers of the March 31 deadline to apply for 2008 crop year commodity loans for wheat, oats, barley, canola, crambe, flaxseed, honey, oats, ra...
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Buffalograss wins praise for its low maintenance characteristics, but homeowners still tend to avoid it. University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers hope some new varieties in the works will encourage more people to plant the grass. Bob...
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■ Editor’s note: This article is first in a series about the concept and use of no-tillage farming methods.By Mark WatsonPanhandle No-Tillage Education Coordinator No-till is not just a change in farming practices. It’s a change in mindset. It...
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In an effort to protect working agricultural lands in Nebraska, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced that $1 million will be available to successful applicants through the agency’s Farm and Ranch Lands Protection P...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican More money was bid on a fewer number of students at this year’s Chase County Schools Labor Auction. Held Feb. 28, the auction raised over $11,000 for the chapter. The highest bid was from Martin Leibbran...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Two Bayard children whose house caught fire in December recently received blankets made by the Imperial Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary. Rebecca Koellner of the Auxiliary traveled to Bayard March 1 to ...
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By Jan Schultz, The Imperial Republican News EditorIt was a long shot when I submitted an email to Bill O’Reilly’s “The Factor” show last week that it would make the cut and air. But, that’s what happened on March 10, and I’m glad to say it ga...
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Letter to be sent home on Little League girls’ softball program By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican A new group of parents have moved into some of the leadership roles within the Imperial Baseball/Softball Association (IBSA), which supports the ...
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The Frenchman Valley Ducks Unlimited Chapter will hold their annual fund-raising banquet on Friday, March 27th in Imperial. Committee members John Flood, left, and Jeremy Vlasin, display a Terry Ridlen print that will be auctioned off. For ticket informat...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Seven men and young adults from the area gained valuable information from an experienced umpire at a clinic here Sunday afternoon. And, by completing the clinic and the open book test given at the clinic, ...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican University of Nebraska-Kearney wrestler Taylor May of Imperial earned All-American honors with his fifth place finish in the NCAA Division II championships held last weekend in Houston, Texas. This marks...
