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Glenvil’s 150th celebration, themed “Your Life, Your Memories, Our Town,” is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 3, and Sunday, Sept. 4.

On Saturday, there will be a display of tractors and cars at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, located at 403 Sturgis Street.

All modes of transportation are welcome; all entries will be displayed from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. To sign-up for the car/tractor show, contact Dan at 402-460-0163 or email him at brandenburgerdan17@ gmail.com.

A parade will begin at 10 a.m. To sign-up for the parade, contact Breanna at 402-519-5331 or email her at spitzbreanna@gmail.com Several other activities have been planned for the event, including a water fight, bounce houses, petting zoo, volleyball tournament, history hall, bingo, cake walk, local band for a dance, church in the park, and delicious meals and snacks available throughout the day.

As the Sutton Community Home prepares for it’s annual meeting, coming up Monday, Sept. 12, new faces, a new aura and certainly a new attitude will be strongly felt and visible to those who attend the 2022 annual meeting.

Suttonites Amy Schelkopf and Sophie Carlson will stand out as the new leaders of the nearly 60-year-old Sutton facility.

For Schelkopf, the timing to become the newly appointed administrator of the skilled nursing center and assisted living facility couldn’t have been better.

“When I was approached by Sheila Griess and Amy Baumert about a position with the home I was just coming back into the workforce after being a stay-at-home mom.”

Schelkopf went on to say, “when my husband and I moved to Sutton back in 2011, we together made a commitment to our kids that I would be at home, at least until the boys were all in school, so when I was approached about a position with the home, the timing was perfect.”

Fairfield celebrated the town’s 150 years during the annual Triple F Fest Aug. 19-20. Saturday morning, Aug. 20, festival-goers were treated to a parade down Main Street, as seen above. At the right, Bodie Jarchow leans down to put his frog on the right path during activities in the park Saturday afternoon. 

CCC Board of Governors member Diane Keller has been named the recipient of the 2022 Western Region Trustee Leadership Award by the Association of Community Colleges Trustees (ACCT). The award recognizes community college leaders for meeting the needs of their communities.

Keller will receive the award during the 53rd annual ACCT Leadership Congress in New York City in October. As a regional award recipient, she is one of five nominees for the ACCT’s prestigious M. Dale Ensign Trustee Leadership Award, which will also be presented at the leadership congress.

“It has been an honor to work for all community college students in Nebraska, but especially at CCC to make Nebraska the best place to live and do business,” Keller said.

In preparation for their new school year, students and their parents/guardians attended the annual Harvard Public Back-to-School Picnic Tuesday, Aug. 16. Here, groups enjoy a meal before dropping items off in their lockers, meeting teachers, and touring the school.

It’s finally time to celebrate Fairfield’s 150th celebration—” The Best Little Town in the State”—this weekend, Friday, Aug. 19, and Saturday, Aug. 20.

Friday night kicksoff with music, as Tim Zach, with Joe Parr, begins at 8 p.m., compliments of Trailhead Tavern.

Saturday morning begins early with garage sales at 8 a.m., and craft vendors set up behind the Opera House. Contact Chanda at 402-460-9090 about garage sales; contact Rachel at 402-762-5159 about craft vendors.

Those participating in the parade should line up at 9 a.m., with the parade slated to begin at 10 a.m. For those interested in joining the parade, contact Joanna or Brett at 402-984-112 or 402-224-1006.

From 10 a.m.-2 p.m., there will be a car show, and at 11 a.m., volleyball at the park will start, as well as kid and adult activities. Those wanting to participate in volleyball can contact Josh at 402-469-2128.

Deweese’s annual festival appeared to be well attended Aug. 13 and 14, with Saturday kicking off the event with the tractor pull. Sunday’s events included the demo derby, as seen above, turtle races, and a to-go meal. Above, two cars slam into each other while the crowd watches from behind during Sunday’s demo derby.

ABOVE: Dawson Kucera focuses on getting as far as he can during the tractor pull Saturday. RIGHT: Paisley Faimon encourages her turtle, Tiny Tim, to cross the finish line during the turtle races Sunday evening.

Sutton Mayoral candidates Todd Mau, left, current mayor, and Tim Anderson served as Thursday’s speakers of the quarterly Sutton Chamber of Commerce meeting.

At the quarterly Sutton Chamber of Commerce meeting Aug. 11, Sutton mayoral candidates Todd Mau and Tim Anderson served as the guest speakers.

Anderson, the opponent of incumbant mayor Mau, spoke first and gave a brief overview of goals he’d like to achieve, should he be voted in as mayor.

He said currently he doesn’t believe the town has a vision or goal that is actively being implemented or talked about; Anderson said he’d like to be mission-driven and strive to achieve goals in a timely manner.

After three straight months of the reading of Ordinance 406, members of the Sutton City Council were able to take the final step in the annexation process of a new 80 acre tract of ground, known as the Schwab addition during their August meeting. The land was officially added to the city limits with final approval of the tract.

In addition to the official annexation, members of the council took a look at very early conceptual drawings from three architectural firms, Olsson and Associates of Grand Island, Miller, and Associates of Kearney, and JEO based out of Lincoln.

Council members took action and asked to pursue further, more detailed drawings from Miller and Associates and JEO and start the process of getting a more detailed plan for the new residential sub-division.

When asked by a member of the public when work will begin on the development, councilman Jeff Schelkopf shared, “After harvest is over, we’d ultimately like to start moving dirt this fall.”

When push came to shove, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission heard loud and clear from nearly 25 landowners and county commissioners that the donation of nearly 1,100 acres that encompasses what is known as the Verona Complex to the NGPC was the wrong path with the ground, located just north and east of Clay Center.

As county commissioner Dick Shaw stated, “we’ve been snake bitten too many times with land deals, we just don’t want to go down that road again.”

The contingency from the game and parks commission heard Shaw, one of seven commissioners in Clay County, and the overflowing room of ag producers, landowners and county officials filling the Clay County Commission board room loud and clear, as game and parks officials have decided not to pursue the donation from the Ducks Unlimited (DU) organization, according to an email from Alicia Hardin, the administrator of the commission’s wildlife division.