Cool summer, wet fall delaying harvest 11/13/2008 FARMING Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Rain stopped harvest earlier this week. Local grain handling personnel predict at least another week of harvesting will be needed after the ground dries to bring in the fall crop. Producers report exceptional yields. Grain quality is also high. However, high moisture grain, rain, soggy fields and f... View
	Vacant house blamed for mouse population explosion 11/13/2008 LOCAL GOVERNMENT Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Angie Moody met with members of the Superior City Council Monday evening to discuss health concerns related to the condition of a former residence at 255 South Converse.... View
	Commissioners discuss request to vacate road 10/23/2008 COMMUNITY Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Commissioners reviewed an official request to vacate a road at Monday's regular meeting of the Nuckolls County Board.... View
	Work progressing on Superior-Hardy pipeline 10/23/2008 COMMUNITY Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Motorists along Highway 8 between Superior and Hardy have probably noticed work is progressing on the municipal water pipeline between the two communities.... View
	SHS adds big screen TV to cafeteria 10/16/2008 EDUCATION Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Members of the Superior Board of Education met for just slightly more than an hour Monday evening in regular session. There was only one action item besides approving the agenda and October claims - approving a local substitute certificate for Rex Kirchhoff.... View
	Superior utility rates heading up this month 10/16/2008 LOCAL GOVERNMENT Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- It's been talked about for weeks and the residents of Superior were warned it was coming. Monday night it happened. Members of the Superior City Council approved new, higher rate schedules for all city utilities.... View
	County Board meets with auditors in executive session 10/09/2008 LOCAL GOVERNMENT Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Monday's regular meeting of the Nuckolls County Board began with an hour-long meeting with two representatives from Contryman Associates, the Hastings company contracted to complete the county's annual audit.... View
	Corn is focus of documentary shot in southcentral Nebraska 10/09/2008 HUMAN INTEREST Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Lights! Camera! Corn!!... View
	Superior veterans make Honor Flight trip 10/02/2008 PEOPLE Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Jim Harvey and Norm Shafer grew up together in Superior. As boys, they built model airplanes together, fished together and shared a canoe on the Republican River.... View
	Trapps to be featured on Dr. Phil Show 10/02/2008 PEOPLE Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Spencer Trapp and his parents, Bob and Sue, returned home to Superior last week after taping a segment in Hollywood, Calif., for the popular "Dr. Phil Show," hosted by the folksy self-help guru, Phil McGraw.... View
	Superior school budget up, but levy may drop 3 mils 09/11/2008 EDUCATION Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- As required by law, the September school board held two public hearings before the regular meeting. One hearing related to the budget and the second to tax requests.... View
	Local tax request steady 09/11/2008 LOCAL GOVERNMENT Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- For the operation of city government in the coming fiscal year, it appears the tax burden on local property owners will remain constant. Monday evening members of the Superior City Council approved a budget calling for the same number of local tax dollars as requested last year.... View
	Diabetes program at Brodstone has new coordinator 09/04/2008 HEALTH Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- The diabetes education program at Brodstone Memorial Hospital has a new coordinator. Carla Ost has taken over responsibility of the outpatient program, replacing Lynette Hunt-singer, according to Karen Tinkham, public relations director at the hospital. Ost, a registered nurse and director of cardi... View
	Pay increase approved for county employees 08/07/2008 LOCAL GOVERNMENT Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- It took four separate motions, but the Nuckolls County Board at Monday's regular meeting eventually approved a pay increase for approximately 30 county employees, excluding elected officials and their deputies.... View
	Lunzer back at work after kidney transplant 08/07/2008 PEOPLE Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Larry Lunzer is back at work managing the Superior Pamida store after a June 17 kidney transplant at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.... View
	More mammoth bones found along eroding lake shoreline 08/07/2008 CURIOSITY Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Tuesday, Steven Holen, curator of archaeology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science drove to one of his favorite digging sites - Lovewell Lake. The high spring inflow eroded the shoreline enough to expose the bones of mammoth which lived in the area 13,000 years ago.... View
	Lakes remaining at flood stage 07/24/2008 WEATHER Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Regular rainfall continues to keep the Lovewell and Harlan County reservoirs filled into flood stage.... View
	BMH testing POD concept 07/24/2008 COMMUNITY Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Brodstone Memorial Hospital is participating in a statewide plan to prepare disaster forces to move the hospital's patients to another site for care should the need arise.... View
	Cablevision system sold 07/17/2008 COMMUNITY Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Monday evening members of the Superior City Council approved the transfer of the Time-Warner Cable's franchise to provide cable television service to the residents of Superior to a start-up company, Windjammer Communications.... View
	Discussion continues on GIS for assessor 07/17/2008 LOCAL GOVERNMENT Superior Express / STPNS Superior, Nebraska (STPNS)- Discussion continued on the proposed geographic information system (GIS) for the county assessor's office at Monday's regular meeting of the Nuckolls County Board.... View