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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican This year’s Chase County Fair kicked off over the weekend with the 4-H Horse Show and Imperial Community Players’ musical. Events will continue through Sunday afternoon, Aug. 16, for western Nebraska’s grand...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican People needing the medical services of a urologist can now look to Chase County Community Hospital (CCCH) and Dr. Rick Schmidt. Dr. Schmidt recently relocated his weekly clinic from North Platte to Imperial. He sai...
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Number of upgrades to facilities made over summer months
By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican It seems like we just celebrated the Fourth of July. Now, it’s Chase County Fair week, and on Tuesday, Aug. 18, it’s the first day of classes at Chase Coun...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Although her recent college degree is in music education, Shelby Leyland of Imperial will instead be teaching English in Japan this next year. Leyland, 22, graduated this past spring from Hastings College with a Bache...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican As of last Thursday, drivers in Chase County were again able to apply for drivers’ licenses. Due to a delay in the installation of a new drivers’ license system by the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV),...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican A group of area residents plans to begin circulating a petition during the Chase County Fair this week and beyond, asking that Chase County Community Hospital board members be elected by the public in the future. At ...
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Mid-Plains Community College will offer two online business courses this fall that are focused on the agricultural industry. The first, Introduction to Agriculture & Natural Resources, is a survey course that provides an overview of historical develo...
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By Gene HeathersCivil Engineering TechnicianNatural Resources Conservation Service The last 12 months have brought heavy rains and several storms to many of our southwest Nebraska farms. With the increase in rain, we are also seeing an increase in eros...
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By Robert TignerSW4 Agricultural Extension Educator Forage cropping choices and the economics of forage will be the subject of a meeting Aug. 24, 1 pm at the Imperial Public Library. Specific topics include choosing forages, alfalfa stand assessment, est...
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The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is testing landowner interest in a new Wetlands Reserve Program option to reserve grazing rights on their contracted wetland acres. Applications are being accepted statewide from Aug. 10-21 at local NRC...
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By Robert TignerSW4 Agricultural Extension Educator The 2008 Farm Bill’s new ACRE program has an important deadline coming. Aug. 14 is the final day to elect the new ACRE program for agricultural crops. If growers have not taken a close look at ACRE, t...
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Training will be conducted in Spanish at the
Imperial Lied Library
The Center for Rural Affairs’ Rural Enterprise Assistance Project (REAP) will host a five-week business plan basics course beginning Wednesday, Aug. 26, and ending on Wednesday, Sept. ...
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Sign-up started Monday
in NRCS offices
Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced on Aug. 6, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) was to begin a continuous signup for the new Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) on Monday, A...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Catholic parishes in the area learned first-hand about their church’s mission efforts in foreign lands. Rev. Felix Ilesanmi Osasona, a Nigerian priest, spent a week in Imperial recently to tell churches in Indian...
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Recently the Nebraska Department of Economic Development announced that Sept. 25 is the deadline for submitting applications for the next round of grants available through the Agricultural Innovation and Value-Added Act. For both value-added grants and B...
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“Nebraska farmers, ranchers, and landowners need to make sure they have completed farm program signup at their local FSA office by Friday, Aug. 14, 2009,” noted FSA State Executive Director Dan Steinkruger. “We have three major activities that end...
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I needed to provide a couple desserts for a luncheon, so why not double the recipe to make it easier? On second thought, my favorite recipe takes more time with separate layers so I’ll make one Chocolate Butterfinger Delight and stir up some Frosted Pum...
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By Jan Schultz, The Imperial Republican News Editor
Next to Christmas, it’s probably the most anticipated event of the year here in Chase County. That’s the Chase County Fair! By the time you are reading this, events will be in full swing at the fair...
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Close to 300 people attended Friday’s open house at the new Frenchman Valley Coop facilities at 2nd and Broadway in Imperial. Hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans and drinks were served, and many took tours of the new facility. Coop employe...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Teaching music through “singing, saying, dancing, playing” is the theory of new elementary vocal music teacher Amy Walworth. She was hired by Chase County Schools this summer to teach kindergarten through sixth g...
