News from Neighbors

Sunday’s hailstorm is hard on soybean crop
    IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Oct. 5 — Area soybean fields suffered the brunt of damage from a Sunday afternoon hailstorm that moved through Chase County, Nebraska.
    Local hail insurance providers said initial damage reports showed losses ranging from 40-50 percent all the way to 100 percent total loss.
    Areas from southwest of Champion, Nebraska, to Lamar, Nebraska, back to Imperial, Nebraska, represented some of the worst crop damage that occurred.
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‘Our Souls at Night’ released
    YUMA PIONEER, Oct. 12 — The Netflix movie based on Kent Haruf’s final novel, “Our Souls at Night,” recently was released on Netflix.
    The movie stars legendary actors Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Much of the movie was shot in Colorado Springs and Florence.
    Haruf, who died a couple years ago, spent part of his childhood in Yuma, was an English teacher at Yuma High School and other area schools, and went on to become a celebrated novelist. He wrote a series of incredible books highlight by “Plainsong.”

Venango annexation discussed with commissioners
    GRANT TRIBUNE-SENTINEL, Oct. 11 — Village of Venango, Nebraska, board member Tom Tines briefed Perkins County, Nebraska, commissioners during their Oct. 2 meeting on the annexation issues being discussed in Venango.
    In 2010, the Village annexed an entire section, but they were not informed they would be in charge of maintaining the county roads. Because they do not have the equipment to do this, they de-annexed in 2013.
    The new area being annexed will take in sewer ponds, the solar complex and other open areas.
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Sheriff’s contract with Julesburg may be in peril
    JULESBURG ADVOCATE, Oct. 12 — Some Julesburg Town Board members may have left Monday night’s meeting flabbergasted after a heated discussion between Sedgwick County Sheriff Larry Neugebauer and Julesburg Mayor Ken Berges.
    Neugebauer had been standing at the door throughout the meeting, waiting until it was his turn to address the board. He began by telling the board that he had been contacted by Mayor Berges to set up a meeting at 4 o’clock one afternoon — the exact date was not disclosed during the evening session.
    Neugebauer understood that the meeting was to have been held at the Julesburg Town Hall, and he arrived on time and waited for Berges to show up. Meanwhile, Berges had gone to the Sedgwick County Courthouse, expecting to meet Neugebauer there. Obvious lack of communication had transpired.
    Later that evening, Neugebauer recalled, he went to Berges’ home to visit with him there. It was during that meeting that Neugebauer claims that he was told by the mayor that members of the town board were less than satisfied with the sheriff and his staff’s performance. Berges was said to have told Neugebauer that he was no longer interested in the sheriff’s stats.
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