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In Nebraska, opportunity doesn’t knock—it gobbles. According to a recent survey, turkey populations have increased in all areas of state, ranging from a 500% rise in the southwest and central portions of the state to a 400% increase in...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Due to a full school calendar this month, the high school’s annual athletic awards night will be held on Wednesday, May 20, beginning at 7 p.m. In many of the past years, this awards program has been hel...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Imperial’s Longhorn golfers will get in three tournaments in eight days as they gear up for the C5 district tournament next Tuesday, May 19. The Longhorns got to the play the district course last Thur...
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Chase County Schools was alive with pirates last Thursday night, as the Imperial Education Association sponsored a family night during the week of Arts Festival. “A Treasure Chest of Learning” featured decorated doorways, games, a display of the new m...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican In separate awards programs May 4, students in grades 4-8 at Chase County Schools were honored for their work the past year in the classroom and extracurriculars. A program earlier in the afternoon was set...
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Multitude of academic certificates, medals distributed on May 4By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican The first Monday in May brought high school students to the auditorium, where they were recognized for a year of hard work in the classroom at the...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. However, according to the Center for Rural Affairs, over half of the counties in the United States have no mental health professionals, a situation that has changed...
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The gap between what has been raised and what needs to be raised for the new playground equipment in Imperial was considerably narrowed last week. Frenchman Valley Coop. donated $1,000 to the fund-raising, which was matched by Land O’Lakes, for a total ...
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Prospective kindergartners visited Chase County Schools last Friday to get a preview of what school will be like next fall. The youngsters participated in a milk break, classroom activities, lunch, story time, recess, physical education and music. Above l...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Much to the dismay of Sen. Mark Christensen, it looks unlikely that his efforts to make a change to the occupation tax in LB 701 will be heard in this year’s legislative session. But it’s not becaus...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican It was a long day and a half by Amtrak, but Kaye Einspahr of Enders said it was well worth the trip east to see her uncle buried May 1 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. It was a fitting ...
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By Joseph MortonThe Omaha World-Herald WASHINGTON — This time there were flowers, prayers and traditional military honors. Sgt. 1st Class Patrick Arthur of Broken Bow, Neb., received a long-delayed proper burial Friday at Arlington National ...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican When new students walk into fourth grade teacher Vicky Fine’s classroom the first day of school at Chase County Schools, they gasp at the number of pizza boxes she has stacked on her shelves. “Did you...
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County’s warning system getting ‘official’ test this Thursday at noonBy Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Chase County was included in a severe thunderstorm warning last Wednesday night, April 29, and the conditions warranted the first use of...
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The Chase County Historical Society will open its 2009 season at the Chase County Museum with a quilt show this Sunday and continuing on Sunday, May 17. Members of the Quilt Guild will host the show and have invited Barbara Holtzman of Holyo...
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They’re everywhere. People who want to steal your identity and use it for illegal purposes. A seminar was held Tuesday in Imperial for those interested in protecting themselves from identity theft. It was sponsored by Mid-Plains Community C...
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Many trees, shrubs and other ornamental plants in Nebraska suffer from iron deficiency. In the Southwest part of the state there is no exception. In fact, it can be much worse here than other areas. The high mag soils in this area caus...
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By Jan SchultzThe Imperial Republican Earlier this year, Governors of the U.S. Postal Service approved new prices for mailing, including a two-cent increase for first class stamps, from 42 to 44 cents. That change in price arrives Monday, May ...
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By Mark WatsonPanhandle No Till Educator In the past several articles I have talked about diverse mixtures of forage crops and grain crops. We know diverse crop rotations have the benefit of breaking up persistent weed and disease cycles. ...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican About 30 persons enjoyed an afternoon of reminiscing Saturday, as Cherish the Past and Celebrate the Future, a centennial style show, was held at Chase County Schools. CCS Family & Consumer Sciences stude...
