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Parades, pies and 100 years of Farmers Day (opens the original)
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Before there was a Kimball, there were railroad tracks, steam locomotives and a little settlement called Antelopeville. The Union Pacific Railroad helped establish the town around 1870, while farming became a major part of the community that grew around those tracks. That history came together Sept. 26 under the theme “Roots and Rails” as Kimball celebrated 100 years of its Farmers Day tradition. The first Farmers Day dates back to 1923. After farmers lost much of their wheat crop, the town spon
Walking for those who can’t (opens the original)
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They walked 37.5 miles for people who may never be able to walk beside them. Veterans, family members and friends crossed Kimball County Sept. 24-25 as part of the Hometown Veterans Walk, raising awareness of the struggles facing veterans and service members, including PTSD, traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma, addiction, homelessness, problems accessing benefits and veteran suicide. For Army veteran John Ring and Navy veteran Jason Hanner, those miles are part of a journey they start
Where the engines roar, community runs deep (opens the original)
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For the second year, lawn mower racers fired up their rides at the Kimball County Fairgrounds in memory of one of their own. The second annual Gary Bowron Memorial Lawn Mower Races were held Sept. 26 during Farmers Day, bringing together family, old racing friends and a couple of youngsters getting their own first taste of racing. Bowron was remembered during the first memorial races last year as a man who loved lawn mower racing enough to travel across western Nebraska and into Wyoming and Colo
Jury trials and tribulations (opens the original)
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Nearly half of Kimball County’s original jury list unavailable to serve Kimball County Clerk of District Court and Jury Commissioner Jamie Bright has been on the job for about two months, and one of her new responsibilities has given her a firsthand look at how much work can go into finding enough people to fill a jury box. This is Bright’s first time arranging jury pools, and after seeing one excusal after another come through her office, she got curious about just how many eligible jurors Kimb
KCTS’s Warner nominated for state, national transit boards (opens the original)
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Kimball County Transit Service Administrator Christy Warner has been nominated for positions on both state and national transportation boards, potentially giving Kimball and rural Nebraska a voice in transpor tation discussions far beyond the county line. Warner told the Observer she has been nominated as a board member for the Nebraska Association of Transportation Providers and the Community Transportation Association of America.
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