Folks traveling in Holt County Missouri along Highway 159 south of Fortescue this next weekend will think they have stepped back in time. The sound of cannons, marching Civil War units and seeing Calvary troops on horses is sure to draw attention!
Highlights from the 2010 Otoe County Fair Veterans Parade.
The Nebraska City Community Foundation selected Carol Crook as philanthropist of the year during the community street dance Saturday night.
Crook, an Otoe County commissioner, substitute school teacher and Arbor Day farm tour guide, is the third recipient of the annual award.
The 4-H and FFA grand champion market hogs at this year’s fair were born under careful watch at the exhibitors’ farms.
Connor Schomerus, the junior showman champion from the Better Ba-C’s 4-H club, showed the grand champion hog for the second consecutive year.
The judge of the crops and garden show at the Otoe County Fair said the humidity and heat were perfect this year for a lot of garden diseases, but local growers appear to have found patience is the remedy.
Tomato plants across the region were hard hit by blight, that spread each time a drop of water was splashed from leaf to leaf. Many onions rotted in the moist ground where they were planted.
The heat wave that prompted warnings of heat indexes as high as 110 degrees may subside by the start of the Otoe County Fair on Saturday.
A temperature of 94 degrees at 4 p.m. on Tuesday with relative humidity of 58 degrees translates into a heat index of 107 degrees.
The champion of Nebraska City’s Good Wood Barbecue Challenge this weekend will receive a Nebraska City-made trophy.
Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce had considered ordering a commercially-produced trophy, but decided a unique prize would best suit the city’s first official barbecue cooking competition.
Amanda Mcnees was crowned Sidney Iowa Rodeo Queen prior to the opening of the 87th annual rodeo Tuesday.
2009 Queen Morgan Mowery, who led the queen’s horsemanship competition at the rodeo arena, presented Mcnees with the crown.
Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce has organized the first Good Wood Barbecue Challenge as part of an event weekend that includes the annual Lemon Days sales event and Wine Under the Pines.
The Avenue Grill and Lady Bug BBQ of Nebraska City and Smokestack Bar-B-Q of Bellevue are scheduled to compete from noon to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 7, at Kimmel Orchard.
The Otoe County Board offered its approval Tuesday for an outdoor band fundraiser, orchard wine tasting and Nebraska City street dance.
Nancy Holmquist told commissioners she is planning to sell wine on her property near Eagle on Aug. 21 as a fundraiser for Voices of Hope, a Lincoln crisis center for victims of domestic violence.
Video>>> Over two inches of rain fell on Nebraska City over the Fourth of July weekend, but only a few drops landed before the Jaycees’ annual fireworks show.
“It was fortuitous that we had it on Saturday night,” said Jaycee volunteer Daryll Steinman.
Scattered rain clouds passed over Steinhart Park, but only a few sprinkles fell.
Video>>> Despite hot and humid conditions, the Mayhew Cabin’s annual Juneteenth Celebration June 26 drew good crowds.
Video>>> Skills in fishing, pedaling a tractor and raising a bottle with a wire all paid off Saturday for kids attending Talmage Days 2010, but few skills struck dread like those of Emma Grobe.
After the fishing derby, where 40 kids competed to catch eight-inch bullheads, children assembled on a top of a hill with their bicycles, tricycles and tractors. The Three-block parade turned into an Indy car-style pedaling demonstration that primed participants for games at the park.
Video >>> Highlights of the 2010 Arbor Day celebration in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Video>>> The top chili cooks at the inaugural Arbor Day chili cook-off last year defended their titles Saturday.
The best of show, judged by a panel that included Mr. Applejack and this year’s Arbor Day honorees Duane and Jackie Smith, went to the Nebraska City Fire Department.
Video>>> By the time Duane and Jackie Smith turned the soil for a bur oak planted in their honor at Arbor Lodge State Historical Park on Saturday, Nebraska City has already planted enough trees to rival its first Arbor Day in 1872.
The Smiths, honored for community service and planting hundreds of white pine and red cedar trees to establish a wildlife refuge in rural Nebraska City, are carrying on the tradition established by J. Sterling Morton and his family, said author James Ballowe.
Four teams will put their chili recipes to the test Friday to guarantee a heat wave for the 138th annual Arbor Day celebration.
The Nebraska City Volunteer Fire Department, hosts for the 5:30 p.m. competition, is expected to enter its prize-winning recipe that dates back to the 1930s.
Nebraska City's Arbor Day celebration is Friday, April 30, through Sunday, May 2, 2010.
In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims, early settlers of Plymouth Colony, held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest, an event many regard as the nation’s first Thanksgiving.
Nebraska City marked Veterans Day Wednesday with a presentation at the Nebraska City High School and flag displays.
Veterans Randy Powell, Russ Morton and Harold Huss of Nebraska City were among volunteers to put up 90 flags around the Otoe County Courthouse and war memorial.
