Palisade News

On the Monday evening the fifth and Tuesday morning the sixth, the Wauneta and Palisade schools held their yearly Parent-Teacher Conferences.A The Palisade building and the Wauneta elementary instructors met with the parents in their individual rooms.

The school is busting with college opportunities this year. We are receiving three classes and sending one in the distance learning room.

Halloween is just days away, coming up this Saturday, Oct. 31. A number of eerily fun events are in store in Wauneta, Palisade and Imperial this weekend.

Children and young adults continue to bear the brunt of the H1N1 flu, as the virus makes its way across the region and the rest of the nation.

We would like to apologize for the lack of updates recently on our web site. Gone for a week because of circumstances unforeseen, our updates were two weeks behind going in to an extremely busy time of year for our office.

Grand Island Schools could have avoided a media firestorm recently if it had the newest member of Wauneta-Palisade's bus fleet.

On Wednesday, Sept. 23, fourth grade students from across the eight county health district participated in a one day health and fitness day hosted by McCook Public Schools and Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department.

Wauneta Roller Mills and Palisade businesses the Pioneer Cafe and the Bargain Center are all featured in the July/August 2009 issue of Nebraska Life Magazine.

A Palisade couple is homeless following a Saturday afternoon fire that claimed their home of 35 years.

The City of Kearney announces that, weather permitting, 5th Avenue will be closed beginning Wednesday, June 17, at 7:00 a.m. The purpose of the closure is for reconstruction of 5th Avenue starting at 13th Street.

Nebraska native Alison Johnson will read passages from her memoir, The Eleventh Hour Cana t Last Forever, at the Kearney Public Library on Thursday, June 18 at noon in the Norman Room.

Maureen Rohlfs, middle photo, development manager with the Nebraska Multiple Sclerosis Association , answers questions posed by Adam Spanier, station manager at KNGN 1360 AM and worldwide at www.kngn.org during a live remote Saturday during the MS Walk.

McCook Senior High science club member Anna West scrapes lime build-up from the veterans' memorial stone in McCook's Memorial Park Cemetery, in preparation for Memorial Day services Monday, at 10:30 a.m. McCook American Legion Post No.

A book about hidden treasure in Nebraska didn't involve pirates, but a small-town resident who preferred to hide his money rather than put it in a bank.

There are certain settings that trigger a cannonball of memories. For me, one of those places is a tiny parcel of land on the northeast corner of Palisade, just down the ol' park hill.

Well, of course you are. This is our weekly ritual. You look forward to this block of time when you can sit down and be alone with me.A Every week, most of you go to the mailbox early to get your hands on me, your local newspaper.

Area fire departments joined forces to contain a Hayes County blaze last Thursday evening.

Last week, Senator Ben Nelson announced that Wauneta-Palisade Schools would be among the Nebraska schools receiving Title I grants, with money made available from federal stimulus funds.