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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican The Imperial Republican will feature a new column on collecting, beginning next week. The new column, “Collecting with Jeff Figler,” will begin with the basics of collecting, including how to ge...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican With a slight increase in numbers over last year, the Imperial Swim Team is preparing for its first meet Saturday. About 40 youngsters will compete in Bird City, Kan., up from about 36 youthlast year. Prac...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Three 2009 graduates of Chase County Schools will be in the spotlight with other top athletes from the western part of the state when they play in all-star football and volleyball games on Saturday. Jeremy...
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The second annual “Slice FORE Life” golf benefit and charity auction to be held on Saturday, June 13, at the Enders Lake Golf Course will serve as the kick-off for the Chase County Hospital Foundation’s newest effort, “Campaign for Life.”...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Imperial’s wood bat baseball team dropped its first game of the 2009 summer season Sunday to Haxtun, Colo. Errors hampered the Imperial Crush team, as they dropped a 19-2 game in a shortened seven-inning...
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It’s the first of June, and that means Imperial’s ball parks are busier than ever. Baseball and softball games and the city’s T-ball programs keep the three fields at Schroeder Park busy most nights of the week. The first game of the 2009 season the...
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By Dave VrbasThe Wauneta Breeze Landon Lemburg said Jan. 7 started out just like any other day in Iraq. Unfortunately, the ordinary didn’t last long. He and his company, assigned to keep watch over the Iraqi elections, had been patrol...
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People of all ages turned out Monday to observe Memorial Day at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Imperial. About 200 attended the ceremony sponsored by Imperial VFW Post 4688. Above right, Joel Grosbach played echo taps with Sasheena Rowley, not pictured. Above left...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican On Monday, Nebraska will become the 16th state to have a state law that requires workplaces, restaurants and bars to be 100 percent smoke-free. All of Imperial, except for the Eagles Club and VFW, has bee...
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More than 200 in pool to swim opening dayBy Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican A “visionary” effort by two governmental entities and Imperial’s residents were key to the opening of a new pool and bathhouse/lockerroom complex in Imperial. ...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican With the dedication and grand opening of the new pool/lockerroom complex complete, one question still remains—will the school have lights on the new football field this coming season? “I’m still h...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Tiffany Reeves of Imperial was all smiles Tuesday when she picked up a new 32-inch LCD television at the Imperial city offices. She was the grand prize winner in a fundraising raffle for new playground equ...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican After a low month in February, the monthly Imperial city sales tax receipts bounced back in March, with a total of $33,342.07 coming in, according to the report from the Nebraska Dept. of Revenue. That was...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican Just about everyone school age and older has read either “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” or “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” both written by Mark Twain. Now, residents will get to see friends in the ...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican One of Imperial’s longest tenured instructors is moving from the community this week, but not without leaving a few things behind. Dr. J. Gordon Christensen, who spent 40 of his 42 years in education as ...
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■ See the honor class photos in our DotPhoto Album; go to Photos (above), then click on DotPhoto. By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican It was a night of reminiscing and fond memories as the Chase County Alumni Association hosted its annual alum...
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By Mark WatsonPanhandle No Till Educator I was fertilizing a field of wheat stubble recently and a half a dozen mallard ducks flew off a pothole in the field that had water in it. I hadn’t witnessed ducks in a stubble field for several years. ...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican The Imperial campus of Mid-Plains Community College will be moving up Broadway next week, from its present home at 1320 Broadway to 1324 Broadway. The former Hometown Pharmacy is being remodeled into the new cam...
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For many children, the farm is a home, a playground and a place where they do chores. Teaching them how to take some sort of responsibility for their own safety on the farm is the subject of the upcoming Chase County Progressive Agriculture ...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican A new study completed for the Nebraska Department of Economic Development’s Travel and Tourism Division indicates that travel and tourism has contributed meaningfully to the economies of all the state’s 93 c...
