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Well—the season is over
By Larry PritchettPast PCHS activities director
The NCAA Championship Tournaments are over for both the men and women’s basketball teams. The women’s tournament was a good one and the championship game featured Louisville a...
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The Perkins County Plainsmen track teams hosted their home meet at the E. Lee Todd Track in Grant on Saturday, April 6, under sunny skies and mild temperatures. The boys team placed third in a field of nine schools, three of which had JV teams who...
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By Elizabeth StrandSports Writer The Wallace Wildcats was one of 13 teams at the South Loup Invite on Friday, April 5. Other teams competing included: Anselmo/Merna, Ansley/Litchfield, Arcadia, Brady, Burwell, Elwood, Maxwell, Mullen, Pleasanton, Sa...
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On Tuesday, April 2, Plainsmen golfers participated in the Dundy Invite. They were among eight competing teams and finished in the third place spot with 377 points. Other teams and their placings were Cambridge first, 360; Medicine Valley second, 368; Che...
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By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Senator Mark Christensen of Imperial wants the state to reimburse surface water irrigators in the Republican River Basin if they don’t get water this year. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has issued a c...
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By Janet LaglerNatural Resources Conservation Service
Your CRP is expiringLand that is CRP is considered cropland, however, not all cropland is created equal in terms of erosion and yield potential. In fact, many of the acres enrolled in CRP may be best ...
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Irrigated no-till economics
By Mark WatsonPanhandle No-Till Educator
No-till crop production has proven to be the best production system for conserving moisture. Leaving the previous crop’s residues on the soil surface and attached has improved water ...
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Corn growers can take an active role in an on-farm research project sponsored by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension in partnership with the Nebraska Corn Growers Association and the Nebraska Corn Board. The goal of the Nebraska On-Farm Research Netw...
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The annual Elsie Easter egg hunt was held March 30 at the Methodist Church lawn and the park. A large crowd of kids of all ages attended. Special eggs were marked and those finding them earned a prize....
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Five-year-old Cooper Harris gets a kick out of being up close and personal with the Easter Bunny prior to the big hunt held at Grant City Park on Saturday. The mild weather coaxed a large bunch of little hunters and their families to the event...
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By Jan Rahn Managing Editor A new administrator has been hired to oversee a portion of the facilities at Perkins County Health Services (PCHS). Peggy Rogers began on March 18 as the administrator of Golden Ours Convalescent Home, Park Ridge Assisted Li...
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Second defendant will be sentenced April 8.
By Jan RahnManaging Editor One of two defendants in an attempted robbery of the Farmers State Bank in Wallace was sentenced last week. Tracy Black, 53, of Evanston, Wyo., entered a no contest plea and was se...
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By Jan RahnManaging Editor Patients at Perkins County Health Services will now be able to have their bladder volume measured with a bladder scanner–a portable ultrasound instrument. The new bladder scanner provides a quick, painless, reliab...
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By Jeff HeadleyKeith County News The Cattlemen’s Ball has a new icon that, literally, can’t be missed–a 2,000-pound set of steel spurs constructed by Ogallala High School graduate Shannon Hansen of Lincoln. The steel spurs were set into ...
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By Mark ChristensenNebraska Senator, Dist. 44 The Legislature has started all-day debate on priority bills. One of the priority bills that may come up for debate again this session, is Legislative Bill 543, introduced by Sen. Chambers. LB543 would repeal...
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Community-wide prayer vigil held for troops
By S. Goff
One Year AgoApril 5, 2012 The Lady Plainsmen basketball team was welcoming their new head coach for the 2012-13 season. Taking over the coaching reins for the Lady Plainsmen would be Deanne Bishop, ...
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Volunteers needed for the event to be held near Sutherland June 7-8.
On June 7, a Trail Boss reception will be held to open the Cattlemen’s Ball, with a live auction to follow. A midnight dance to Shur Thing will be held in the saloon tent. A four-pers...
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Singer/guitarist/actor, Earl Bates, returns to Perkins County to reprise his retro, neo-folk, old-school-cool classics of the 60s through the 80s at the Cactus Palace in Venango on Friday, April 5 at 9 p.m. Mr. Bates is once again touring his one m...
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With just old machinery parts, a cutting torch, welder, paint and imagination, Kent Hilferty of rural Madrid has created a unique mailbox that resembles a 1925 D John Deere tractor. Hilferty, a fan of antique JD tractors, has has restored several ...
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Hastings Memorial Library in Grant received internship grant funding in March 2013. The Nebraska Library Commission and the Nebraska Library Association recently awarded 21st Century Librarian internship grants totaling $20,250 to 18 Nebraska public libra...
