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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Mark the calender for the annual Frenchman Valley Chapter of Ducks Unlimited (DU) banquet, scheduled this year for March 23. The evening will begin at the Imperial City Gymnasium with a social hour and silent auction ...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Members of the Chase County Schools National Honor Society have initiated a new program at the school, designed to help students with homework. National Honor Society members mentor students who ask for help. They mee...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Tuesday night Chase County Schools board members verbally agreed with Imperial Education Association representative Jason Speck to hold an open enrollment for Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance for the 2013-2014 ...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Attention all shoppers! March 24 is the last day to buy Girl Scout cookies! Girl Scouts are busy selling all of those favorites now. They have pre-ordered cookies, so you don’t have to wait for your order to be proc...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Chase County Schools (CCS) speech students Emily Johnston and Blair Hartman will head to the state speech tournament in Kearney next Thursday, following district competition in Ainsworth Monday. Johnston, a senior, pl...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Steve Smith of Steve’s Video and Entertainment of Imperial is reaching a milestone this Friday. He is celebrating 20 years of business at 621 Broadway. The anniversary celebration and customer appreciation will be h...
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Ranchers in drought-stricken parts of Nebraska are facing tough decisions in 2013, including how many livestock their depleted pastures will be able to support and whether to supplement pastures by planting forage crops to be grazed or harvested. Universi...
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The UNL Extension Service can answer producers’ questions concerning planning for the future. How do I get ready to make a plan? How do I review my existing plan? How can I be a good consumer of legal and estate planning services? What have others d...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Students and staff at Chase County Schools are busy getting ready for the annual Arts Fest at CCS. Arts Fest week is March 18-22. During school hours, parents and patrons are invited to make an “art crawl” to see ...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican For the second year, the Balcony House Bed and Breakfast of Imperial is one of the 80 featured stops in the 2013 Nebraska Passport project. Sponsored by the Nebraska Tourism Commission, the Passport program encourage...
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By Russ Pankonin, The Imperial Republican Last week, the 24-hour news (?) channels all got themselves in a tizzy about a Bakersfield, Calif., independent care facility that would not administer CPR on an 87-year-old woman who had collapsed. The 911 disp...
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Under the direction of elementary vocal music teacher Jodie Liess, grades three through six at Chase County Schools performed both vocals and on recorder and chime instruments Monday night. Third graders, pictured above, sang a selection including “I’...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Three teams from western Nebraska left their mark on the 2013 boys state basketball tournament with one state championship and two runner-up finishes. Third-seeded Southern Valley claimed the school’s first ever ...
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The Nebraska Game and Parks Board of Commissioners tabled big game regulation recommendations at its March 8 meeting in Kearney. Agency staff will make minor amendments to the recommendations for the board to consider at its May 24 meeting in Chadron. Th...
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LINCOLN (AP)—It’s the end of an era for the house that cigarettes built. The Devaney Sports Center will hosted its last college basketball game Wednesday night when Nebraska upset Minnesota, ending a 37-year run as the home of the Cornhuskers. While t...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Don and Trey Evans of Ogallala took first place in the 1st annual Chase County baker style doubles bowling tournament held at Imperial Lanes Saturday, March 2. The flighted tournament was organized by Alex Marsha...
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Snow from this last weekend’s storm has almost all disappeared, allowing Chase County Longhorn golfers to return to practice Tuesday. Coach Larry Munger said he has 11 players out for this year’s team. Here, Curtis Laird and Darin Knobbe, left, and Sa...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Chase County Schools (CCS) speech coach Jill Bauerle wanted her team to finish in the top half at the SPVA speech tournament in Sutherland March 5, and it did. CCS took third in the contest, with Perkins County High S...
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The public, as well as elementary students, will be host to HawkQuest and its raptors in June. HawkQuest is a Colorado non-profit organization that educates the public about, while interacting with, its eagles, owls, falcons and hawks at close range. “O...
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Mid-Plains Community College students planning to transfer on to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska-Kearney, University of Nebraska-Omaha, or University of Nebraska Medical Center or University of Nebraska-Curtis and graduated from...