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Livingston advocates need for grain bin safety equipment at state speech contest
Sometimes, it's not about the medal but more about mettle and message. Battling a stomach bug, Carlee Livingston pushed through three rough rounds of competition in the persuasive speech division at...
Livingston places in state recitation contest
Carlee Livingston, a Summerland junior, placed third in the state finals of Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation contest held Saturday at the Sheldon Art Gallery in Lincoln. Six students from across...
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Speakers compete in state championship
Summerland speech team members competing in last Thursday's Class C2 state championship in Kearney finished the season by earning superior ratings. Faith King finished ninth overall after preliminary...
Speech team finds success in lead-up to district competition
Summerland "speechsters" earned four medals at the Creighton Speech Invite, held Friday, Feb. 17. Champs finals medal winners included Faith King, third, informative speaking and poetry...
Olivan entertains at West Holt speech invite
Fourteen members of the Summerland speech team competed at the West Holt Invitational on Saturday, coming in seventh of 18 teams. Earning top honors in entertainment speaking was Yulianna (Julie)...
Teachers take on summer's coolest jobs
With school beginning next week, summer's end is in sight. What did you do over summer vacation? While the question may be a first-day ice breaker, a teacher's response may surprise you. Several...
No summer break: Summerland teachers, students take stage in production
Disney claims, "Beauty and the Beast" is "the most beautiful love story ever told." The O'Neill Community Theater had a busy summer with practices, and was rewarded by crowds supporting performances o...
Summerland speakers win medals
The Bobcat speech team participated in the West Holt Invite, Feb. 5. Five speakers claimed medals in four events. In varsity competition, Faith King finished fifth in poetry interpretation. Adrienne...
First-time speakers gain experience at novice speech meet
Four novice Summerland speakers traveled to Stuart, Saturday, for Stuart's inaugural novice speech meet. Schools in attendance were Pope John, Stuart, Summerland and West Holt. Coach Julie Harley...
Bearinger recognized as top actres
Summerland play production team's production of Zink: The Myth, The Legend, The Zebra finished third at the Niobrara Valley Conference East Divison One-Act Contest, Nov. 16, at Elgin Pope John. The Bo...
-Isms: Views on life in rural America
Where were you 50 years ago, on Thanksgiving, when two of the top college football programs battled it out in what is known as the game of the century? I was hoping for a repeat outcome Saturday,...
Dynamic duo
Irelyn Bearinger and Talya Nilson placed second in duet acting/duo interp at the West Holt junior high speech invitational, Saturday, after losing a tie-breaker by points in the two-round, no-finals...
Nordby, Nilson earn bronze medals at state speech contest
A poignant story about two brothers - Aaron and Frankie - and the fine line between reality and fantasy, landed Summerland speech team members Kyra Nilson and Emily Nordby on the medal stand at...
Summerland speechsters qualify for state contest
Three students will represent the Summerland speech team at the 2021 Nebraska School Activities Association State Speech Contest, Friday, March 19, in Kearney. Kyra Nilson, Emily Nordby and Adrienne P...
Speechsters earn medals
Summerland speech team members competed in two meets recently and several students brought home hardware. At the Feb. 13 Wausa Invite, Emma Hoffman finished fourth in junior varsity extemporaneous...
Speechsters begin season with seventh-place finish
On a typical Saturday during speech season, students can be found boarding a school bus before the break of dawn, traveling hours to reach a destination to perform. While the possibility of those...
Get the show on the road
Summerland one-act cast and crew presented Peter Pan, Dec. 1, in Newcastle, competing in the Class C2-3 district contest. The Bobcats finished sixth, receiving rankings of fourth, seventh and seventh...
The show must go on
Even in the best of times, staging a live performance requires suspension of belief, pulling audience members into a mystical realm situated beyond the fourth wall. This year - 2020 - may be...
-Isms
During my 25-year stint as a play production director, I faced several challenges: kids late to practice, costume malfunctions, broken props, ill students requiring a substitution from an understudy....
Tigers tame competition at Ainsworth Invite
The Ewing Tiger speech team took top honors in team sweepstakes at Saturday's Ainsworth Invitational speech meet. In the field of 10 teams, West Holt was second; Gordon-Rushville, third and...
Experience pushes Ewing speakers
A strong core of polished speakers, along with an ambitious group of novices, comprise the 2020 Ewing speech team. Coach Julie Harley said a dozen students will fill spots on the team. Participants...
