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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Chase County Schools junior Calen Griffin was voted vice president of the Nebraska State Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) at the state convention this past weekend. The 16-year old was installed during a cere...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican The Chase County Schools (CCS) board accepted four resignations, hired three staff members, and elected current certified and classified staff for the 2013-14 school year during a meeting Tuesday night. Elementary Pri...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Chase County Schools senior Spencer Hartman’s desire to give back to FFA has led him to the state’s highest office. He was elected president of the Nebraska FFA last Saturday during the state convention in Linco...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Senator Mark Christensen of Imperial wants the state to reimburse surface water irrigators in the Republican River Basin if they don’t get water this year. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has issued a c...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Automatic federal budget cuts that kicked in earlier this year, known as sequestration, will affect Medicare payouts at the Chase County Community Hospital and Clinic. During the regular hospital board meeting Thur...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican A one-vehicle accident early Saturday morning resulted in multiple injuries for an Imperial man. Perkins County Sheriff Jim Brueggeman said 25-year-old Arturo Acosta/Martinez was transported by Flight for Life from ...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Think boats. Think water. Think fish. Think lots of pretty girls and handsome youth during Chase County Schools’ (CCS) prom this weekend. “Rolling in the Deep” is the theme of this year’s prom, to be held th...
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In the April 4 Imperial Republican and Wauneta Breeze, a press release provided by Chase County Community Hospital contained information relating to the Mini-Health Fair being conducted by Chase County Community Hospital April 22-30. That article containe...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican It was a highly successful State FFA Convention for the Imperial FFA chapter. Five State Proficiency championships, two teams headed for national competition, two runner-up teams, one third-place and one fourth-place ...
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Despite an extreme drought and indicators of weaker agricultural earnings on the horizon, Nebraska’s agricultural land markets remain strong, with an overall increase of 25 percent in the last year, according to preliminary findings from the University ...
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By Nate JenkinsAsst. Mgr., Upper Republican NRD Farmers interested in using soil-moisture probes during the upcoming irrigation season can now apply for cost-share under a program administered by the Upper Republican Natural Resources District (URNRD). Th...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Land values in Chase and surrounding counties have followed the statewide trend of higher prices. Local appraiser Tom Luhrs of Imperial said values for irrigated have risen in Chase, Dundy and Perkins County to leve...
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The private pesticide training that was to be held at the UNL West Central Research and Extension Center on April 9 has been postponed to Friday, April 12. It will be held at the same location at 1:30 p.m. CT sharp. If you have any questions contact th...
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By Russ Pankonin, The Imperial Republican As those words roll off your lips, you immediately hear the tune in your head and all of the sudden, you hear yourself singing the Nebraska fight song. “There is no place like Nebraska . . . Good old Nebraska...
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By Sheri Hink-WagnerThe Wauneta Breeze Travelers on highway 6 between Wauneta and Hamlet may experience delays as work begins on a $3.4 million project which includes bridge work, widening and resurfacing the highway. Project inspectors indicated work to...
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Tower climbers completed an upgrade on the Viaero Wireless tower in Imperial Monday. The upgrade enables the carrier to offer 4G data speeds to their customers. 4G is the fourth generation of cell phone mobile communication technology. Smartphone users wi...
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By Brenda Johnson BrandtThe Holyoke Enterprise Huge trees were uprooted, airport hangars blew away, buildings were leveled, a semi overturned, and much of the town lost power Monday evening, April 8, when a spring storm roared into Holyoke, Colo. Reports ...
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The man known as Kayakjak, Marty Hughes of Benkelman, will loan his expertise to the SCORE (Science Camps Offer Rewarding Experiences) this June. He will teach individual sessions at Champion Lake June 12-14. Students in grades 1-4 will have the opportuni...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican The drought’s over—at least for the Longhorn boys track team. For the first time since 2007, the Longhorns brought a track meet title back home to Imperial. The Longhorns scored 121 points en route to capturing...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Chase County’s Longhorn girls finished in the middle of the pack Saturday at the E. Lee Todd Invitational at Grant. Coach Al Zuege said the girls’ fifth place finish would have likely been better had he not bee...
