KEARNEY, NE—He who hesitates may not have the opportunity to attend the 2010 Cattlemen’s Ball, June 4‐5 in Kearney....
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KEARNEY, NE—He who hesitates may not have the opportunity to attend the 2010 Cattlemen’s Ball, June 4‐5 in Kearney....
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by Kristina Volf (Ord, NE) – The Ord Area Chamber’s Summer Media Capture Contest is back! Once again, you...
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Shirley Jean Schimmer, 84, of Burwell, Nebraska died May 14, 2010 at the Community Memorial Health Center in Burwell, Nebraska. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at Hitchcock Funeral Home in Burwell, Nebraska. Burial will be in Cottonwood Cemetery in Burwell. Rev. Matthew Berndt will officiate. Visitation will be from 5 – 7 p.m. Monday at Hitchcock Funeral Home. Memorials are suggested to the family. Shirley was born November 20, 1925 in Hastings, Nebraska to...
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Eldon F. Lukesh 98 of Ord died Friday, May 14, 2010, at the Valley County Health System Hospital. Mass of Christian Burial will be on Monday, May 17, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Ord with Father Tom Ryan officiating. Burial will be in the Ord Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be on Sunday, 6:00-8:00 p.m. with a Rosary at 7:00 p.m. at the Ord Memorial Chapel. Memorials are suggested to the Our...
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by Sandy Stachura The Sandhills Dodgers improved their record to 3-1 on the season this past weekend with a...
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Ord – Valley County Health System will be offering two fitness classes for the public beginning June 7 and continuing through August 12. Johnathan Tomjack, Personal Trainer at VCHS will instruct a boot camp. The class will include mild walk/jog intervals, overall conditioning and strengthening, deep glut and quad toning and mat work for total core workout. This class will be offered Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 to 6:45 am at the Ord Track. Anyone participating should bring a...
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NORTH LOUP,Neb. – The NLS community theatre will be performing “Cotton Patch Gospel” on July 15, 16, and 17. “Cotton Patch Gospel” is written by Tom Key and Russell Treyz, with music and lyrics by Harry Chapin. Sherian Craft will be directing Auditions for the show will be held at the North Loup Community Building from 6:30-8:00 PM on May 20th and 22nd. They are in need of Men and Women ages 16 and up for singing and non-singing...
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Sky-gazing just got a lot more interesting for 41 school children in rural Nebraska. Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, or NET, recently awarded a top-of-the-line, $2,000 telescope to teacher Rhonda Ammon and her fifth, sixth and seventh-grade students at Rock County public Schools in Bassett. Each of the students wrote a short essay describing how the school would use the telescope and why it was important to their ducation. NET Television viewers reviewed each of the entries...
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Mildred E. Hrebec, 94, of Ord passed away Friday, February 03, 2012, at the Valley County Health System Hospital....
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Paul Waltman, 89, of Ord passed away Thursday, February 2, 2012, at the Good Samaritan Health System in Kearney....
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Verna M. Penas, 81, of Ord passed away Monday, January 23, 2012 at the Valley View Living Center in...
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Gertrude L. Osentowski, 96, of Ord passed away Sunday, January 22, 2012, at the Valley View Living Center in...
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