Students chosen for 80 percent FFVF scholarships
Imperial Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge (FFVF) members held interviews Dec. 3 for the next spring’s trip to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C.
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Weather was near perfect as the group processed through the streets, en route to the church. (Johnson Publications photo)
Youths who depicted Mary and Juan Diego, at right, being carried on the back of the pickup, were CCS students Ashley Fregoso, a freshman, and Jesus Juarez, a seventh grader. (Johnson Publications photo)
Annual procession remembers Our Lady of Guadalupe appearance in 1531
Several members of the catholic Hispanic community and Fr. Lothar Gilde celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a procession through the Imperial streets Sunday.
Lions members from left, Sheryl Curtis, Jordan Hammerlun and Bruce Curtis man the stand on Sunday, and also handed out “golden tickets” to all who attended. (Courtesy photo)
Free movies bring in crowd
More than 100 children, teens and adults attended the free matinee showings of “The Polar Express” at the Imperial Theatre last weekend.
State taking lead on Annika Swanson murder prosecution
The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office will be prosecuting the three individuals arrested after the November disappearance and death of Annika Swanson, 22, of Imperial.
Last murders in Chase County were in 1978
If the murder charges filed against two people last week in Chase County seem unusual, they are.