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Legal Notices.................2Social Side ....................3Obituaries ......................3Stapleton SeniorMeal Menu...................3

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Business Directory ........5McPherson CountyNews............................6

McPherson Co.School News ...............7

MCHS Prom ..................7StapletonSchool News ...............8

SHS Spotlight ................8Stapleton Prom..............8Sports ............................9Church Page................10CommunityCalendar....................11

Logan CountyBallots........................12

McPherson CountyBallots........................13

Awards.........................14Legislative News..........15Cards Of Thanks .........16

• Ruth Reynods• Ron Detlefsen• Rev. James Novakowski

LOGAN COUNTY, STAPLETON NEBRASKA 69163 (USPS 518780) THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2017 NO. 1

THE STAPLETON SERVING LOGAN & McPHERSON COUNTIES

FOR OVER 100 YEARS

McPherson Co.News

Graphic FilesOver The Hills

Audrey French StoryGirl’s State

Sonnenfelt Honored

I Can Only Imagine

LOGAN COUNTY, STAPLETON, NEBRASKA 69163 (USPS 518780) THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2018 NO.18

Who IsDan Stapleton?

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Newspaper people fromacross the state of Ne-braska gathered April 20-21 at the CornhuskerMarriott Hotel in Lincoln,for the 144th annual Ne-braska Press AssociationConvention. The Ne-braska Press Associationis the state’s oldest tradeassociation, comprised ofall 166 daily and weeklynewspapers in Nebraska.

Members of the TexasPress Association judgedmore than 3,800 separateentries, representing ninedailies and 62 weeklies.

First, second, and thirdplace winners were an-nounced Saturday nightat an awards banquetwhere more than 160journalists attended, in-cluding Marcia Hora, pub-lisher and Kendra Cutler,editor of The Stapleton En-t e r p r i s e / M c P h e r s o nCounty News and ThomasCounty Herald.

The Stapleton Enterprisebrought home fiveawards, including onefirst place in Division A.

First place went to theCreative Printers Onlinead submitted in the singleretail advertising idea –black and white division.The judge commented,“Good half page ad with

Revamped website goes liveWhat Stapleton has to offer may surprise you!

Check out what Stapleton has to offer by going to a professional website that went live last week. Sublime Artistry and Creative Printers collab-

orated over the past few months to put together the site showcasing businesses, Stapleton Public Schools, activities and organizations. The

user friendly site is mobile responsive and easy to use on your computer, smart phone, or tablet.

Months of work and collaboration has re-sulted in a professional and user-friendlywebsite for Stapleton.

Web designer, Melody Hansen of SublimeArtistry, used her expertise and experienceto create a site that portrays the communityin a positive light. Information on servicesand businesses is easily accessible.

“I was so excited to make this site live aftermany months of work. I feel having an aes-thetic, professional looking website that re-ally represents our growing community andshowcases all we have to offer was impor-tant,” Hansen said. It was great being ableto work with Marcia Hora and Kendra Cut-ler of Creative Printers to make it a reality.They took on the writing, tracked downmost of the photos, helped me populatesome of the content, figured out the sitemap, and really made the process go a lotsmoother.”

Hansen went on to say she and the two-person staff at Creative Printers donatedtheir time to build something the commu-nity can be proud of. Other communitymembers contributed photos which also re-ally helped she said.

Some of the features of the new site in-clude:

• New business directory featuring the 52members of the Stapleton Area Chamber ofCommerce. All listings link back to Face-book pages or websites where available.

• Shopping and convenience page featur-ing photos inside many local businesses.

• Logan County Fair & Rodeo page with in-formation you need for this year’s event.

• The Augusta Winds Golf Course page in-cludes upcoming tournaments, contact in-formation, and photos and video from the2017 Total Solar Eclipse on the Range event.

• The new lodging option in town - TheBunk House - located on Main Street.

You will also find information on theLogan County Courthouse, Stapleton Fire &Rescue, the Village Hall, a community calen-dar of monthly events linking back to theCreative Printers website, the front page ofThe Stapleton Enterprise, and the blue rib-bon elementary winner - Stapleton PublicSchools. Read what others have to say aboutthe community after attending the August2017 Total Solar Eclipse and check out thecommunity photo gallery.

The site is mobile responsive and easy touse on any mobile device and is fully SSL se-cured and meets all of Google’s upcoming

website requirements.“In this day and age, people use their mo-

bile devices for almost everything. Having awebsite that is mobile friendly is important,needs to be something easy to view andscroll through with your fingertips and getyou to the information you are looking forfast,” Hansen said. “It was also important tome that our Chamber website attractyounger generations to our community byshowing we are “up with the times” andalso present them with all we have to offer.For a town with a population of roughly 300we have a lot to offer and I’m proud of whatwe have accomplished. I also feel our newwebsite reflects that.”

Hansen said everyone needs to get outthere and check it out! On your phone, onyour desktop, on your tablet. Share it on so-cial media platforms with your friends.Show that you, too, are proud of our com-munity and all it has to offer.

Go to www.stapleton-ne.com or google Sta-pleton, Nebraska.

The Stapleton Area Chamber of Com-merce sponsors and maintains the website.Your $30.00 dues will get you listed on thesite.

Newspapers bring home six awardsPublisher to serve on NPAS board of directors

good art selection. News-papers should advertisewhat they have to offer,and this is a great exam-ple of doing it well.”

Second place wasawarded to “Blast fromthe Past,” entered in thereader interaction-contestdivision. The judge com-mented, “One of yournewspapers does some-thing similar to Blastfrom the Past. It gets read-ers to participate with en-tries, and I think readersenjoy reading.” The judgesuggested, when possible,to date the photos, even ifyou have to approximatewith something like1930’s.

Third place awards wentto:

Look Who’s New To Youin the feature series cate-gory. The judge com-mented, “the Look Who’sNew To You” series is awonderful way to high-light and promote com-munity, and the storiesare well done. They areenjoyable to read and re-ally give the reader asense of being introducedfirsthand to each person.”

Salute to Veterans in thesmall ad (1/4 page or less)division. The judge com-mented, “Definitely the

most prominent ad on thepage. Again, the simplesilhouette draws the eyebecause the ad is not clut-tered with too many ele-ments.

A & B Hay Company ofArnold in the agriculturaladvertisement division.The judge commented,“They look happy. Lovethe understated message.Hits quick, doesn’t say toomuch, but likely sticks inthe reader’s mind. We allneed to show this to otheradvertisers to convincethem that by saying less,they can say more.”

The Thomas County Her-ald was awarded firstplace for their Sandhills

Family Dental advertisingcampaign. The dentalclinic runs a new ad everymonth and three adswere submitted. Thejudge commented, “Niceuse of photos to draw mein.”

Marcia Hora, publisherof The Stapleton Enter-prise/McPherson CountyNews and Thomas CountyHerald was elected toserve as a director on theNebraska Press Advertis-ing Service board. The an-nouncement came at theannual meeting of the Ne-braska Press Associationand Nebraska Press Ad-vertising Service held Fri-day afternoon, April 20, at

the Cornhusker MarriottHotel.

“I am looking forward toserving on the NPASboard and representingwestern Nebraska. Ourhometown newspapersare so important to oursmall communities andwe want to keep them atthe front and center in de-cision making on the statelevel,” Hora said.

Sessions at this year’sconvention included adand page design tips, dig-ital sales strategies forsuccess, postal issues up-date, and how to get peo-ple to pick up yournewspaper.

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