Local News
Losing a loved one to death is one of the hardest things people will experience in life, and that loss makes a large impact on a person.
By Erin Gibbens
Contributed
Work has started to concrete Fourth Street from Hall to Mitchem Avenues.
CSC Construction began work last week on the concrete street project on Fourth Street from Hall Avenue to Mitchem Avenue.
By Brooke Robertson, Grant Tribune-Sentinel
Weather permitting, a cold milling and armor coating project is scheduled to begin today, Sept. 11 on Highway 61 north of Imperial, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation.
Sports
After talking about the 1966 State Championship team, I was asked a few times this past week which team did you have that you would consider the best team of my career.
By LARRY PRITCHETT, TRIBUNE SPORTS COLUMNIST
Perkins County sophomore Kayton Brueggeman tees off at districts. (Contributed photo)
The Perkins County High School girls golf team competed at the C-5 districts in McCook on Oct. 8.
By Erin Gibbens
The Friday night lights in Wallace have been shut off this football season after a shortage of players for eight-man football forced them to forfeit the season.
Ryan Finley moved to Wallace in 1985, when he was in second grade, and has lived there ever since. He owns a construction company in town.
By Blake Gumprecht
School
Students at both Perkins County and Wallace schools performed well on the latest statewide achievement tests, better than their peers and much better than statewide averages.
Contributed
Student presenting this weekend’s musical include (front row, l-r): Mallory McClenahan, Jessie Craig, Savannah Schmitt, Matthew Wendell, Meghan Bishop, Sophia Perez, Jacob Woodmancy. Back row: Sarah Cockerill, Hannah Kempf, Sam McArtor, Summer Postlewait and Anselmo Perez. Not Pictured: Jayden Huntsman, Miah Long, Jordan Mireles and Kayla Reichenberg.
Perkins County Schools will present Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway this Saturday and Sunday at the high school.
Karen Ruiz of Grant was one of 50 University of Nebraska at Kearney students to be selected to serve as resident assistants for the 2019-20 academic year.
Ag & Business
Contributed
Hexagon Helicopters, Inc., seeds a cover crop with their patented spreader bucket.
Hexagon Helicopters of Elkhorn was in Perkins County last week seeding cover crops.
By Brooke Robertson, Grant Tribune-Sentinel
Contributed
Darin Bottger joins Ben Holmstedt as the new physical therapist at PCHS.
Perkins County Health Services welcomed Physical Therapist Darin L. Bottger to their team at the end of last month.
By Brooke Robertson, Grant Tribune-Sentinel
During the evening hours of Saturday, Aug. 17, investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol performed alcohol inspections on businesses in Perkins, Keith and Chase Counties.
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