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Col. Tom Brewer promises to give a real voice to Nebraskans in the third Congressional district. Brewer, who hopes to replace Adrian Smith as western Nebraska's representative to U.S. Congress, is a veteran of the armed services who survived six gunshot wounds and a rocket propelled grenade attack while deployed in Afghanistan. "I think if you look at the third district and the one thing they've lacked for the last eight years is a congressman who's aggressive, who is willing to take on issues...
Stacie Hermes demonstrated the techniques necessary to spin fibers the old fashioned way on Saturday morning at Sidney's public library. Hermes brought two types of spinning wheel to the class and instructed a small but rapt audience the steps that turn wool into yarn....
A typical tornado has windspeeds of about 100 miles per hour, and a diameter of 100 yards wide. On the evening of May 4, 2007, however, a massive tornado with winds in excess of 200 miles per hour and diameter of 1.7 miles-wider than the town itself-smashed headlong into Greensburg in Kiowa County, Kansas. The wind speed and damage it caused garnered this tornado an EF5 rating, which is the highest possible rating a tornado can receive. Eleven people died and 60 were injured in the Greensburg...
The past few weeks I’ve been looking at the possibilities of improving the health of the soils we work with here in western Nebraska. The soils we work with have lost organic matter, soil microbial populations and diversity as well as soil structure over the years with our crop production practices. To begin to restore soil health, the remedies seem pretty simple but can be hard to implement. When I’ve listened to presentations by experts on the remedies for restoring soil health, there are common threads throughout each presentation. Some of t...
Although the host Creek Valley track team was missing a large contingent of its team, the show went on as scheduled at the Creek Valley Tri-State Invitational in Chappell on Friday. Among the locals, the Leyton girls put on the strongest performance, racking up 99 points to finish an overall third. A pair of Class C schools, Kimball and Bridgeport, ran ahead of the pack with 149.5 points and 113 points respectively. Burns, Wyo. (91.75) and Bayard (63) also finished among the top five. The...
As Alexus Rozelle of Potter-Dix readied to take her turn in the girls shot put, a public address announcement caused her to pause. With the shot resting on her shoulder, Rozelle waited until the quiet returned. "And the winner of the boys long jump is Kelsey Rozelle of Potter-Dix High School," concluded the announcement. Kelsey and Alexus Rozelle helped lead the Coyotes to several of the strongest finishes at Perkins County on Saturday--quite a feat, as some 15 team members were absent. The...
Regyn Hicks of Potter-Dix battles in the 100-meter hurdles final at Perkins County on Saturday....
