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VILLAGE OF EXETER
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Friday, December 16, 2016
New Bench at Edgar Rec
Lots of improvements are happening at Edgar Recreation Center in Exeter. The Exeter GFWC Woman's Club recently purchased and installed this bench near the playground equipment at the park. The bench was purchased with memorial funds from the Marilyn Manning family along with funds the local club received from their District committee. Additionaly, some of the playground equipment has been updated, repaired and repainted by United Methodist church members.
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Exeter Village Board Signs Contract With JEO for Designs
By
Leesa K. Bartu
Exeter
Village Board members opened their meeting on Wednesday, December 7 with the
reelected members, Mitch Schlegelmilch, Kathy Erdkamp and Alan Michl, reciting
the oath of office.
The
board once again nominated Alan Michl as Chairman and Tim Wilbeck as Vice
Chair. Both were reelected to their current positions. The board
also reviewed the appointments on various committees of the village.
After a brief discussion the board approved the assignments with a few changes.
Next
on the agenda was a presentation from Steve Parr and Nathan Boone from JEO to
review the progress on the downtown revitalization and street paving
agreements.
The
projects were divided into two separate agreements. Parr was looking for
the board to approve the design phase of the project. He emphasized that
once the design is complete the board can decide when and if construction will
take place.
Parr
estimated that the total costs for the downtown revitalization construction
would be in the $650,000 range. This would include new lighting and
sidewalks downtown along with quite a bit of water main work.
LED
lighting could bring a large cost savings to the village, according to
Parr. He noted that Schuyler, Neb. had replaced all of their
lighting with LED and were anticipating a 10 year payback in the whole town.
“It was more like a four or five year payback. That is something we are
not pushing it is just more efficient with better energy savings.”
Next
Parr moved on to the street improvement project. The JEO estimate
included some geotechnical investigation. “We will do a sample boring on each
street so that we can see what the substrate is. This will limit the
unknowns,” explained Parr.
JEO
estimates the paving project will come in around $1.4 million but emphasized
that cost estimates are very preliminary at this time.
The
plans will include designs to pave current streets in town that are unpaved
including the block on Union Avenue from Tecumseh Street to Seneca Street,
another on Burlington Avenue from Maplewood Street to Liberty Street and also
on River Avenue from Otoe Street to Kiowa Street.
Several
streets are scheduled for repaving and Chairman Michl clarified the fact that
homeowners would not have any costs where the village is repaving since those
projects are maintenance related.
The
board approved the contract to hire JEO to design the downtown revitalization
project and the street improvement project.
The
board discussed the current maintenance tractor used by the village which is 20
years old and has 2300 hours. Clerk Becky Erdkamp reviewed the current
financial situation of the village noting that the village has retired some
debt but has also purchased some recent assets.
Maintenance
Supervisor John Mueller reported to the board that the price he was quoted was
$49,250 with a trade in of $8000 for the current tractor. The tractor quoted
included a loader bucket.
The
board discussed waiting an additional year to replace the tractor but after
reviewing financing opted to purchase the tractor with a loader attachment this
year.
Clerk
Erdkamp received a request from the cemetery board to increase the pay for the
secretary/treasurer from $88.25 a month to $125 a month. The board
approved this effective January 1.
The
board asked Maintenance Supervisor Mueller about the progress on the ballfield
project. He reported that the new infield is in place, the sprinklers are
in, the fence is back up and there are just some small clumps of clay in the
infield that should melt away.
Board
Member Justin Harre commented, “I am happy we got it done when we did because
it will pack down over the winter.”
Clerk
Erdkamp reported that $15,597.20 has been spent on the ballfield update. The
Exeter Community Foundation has indicated they will donate $7,500 toward the
project. She also reported that sales tax for the month of September was
$8542.00 and Keno for October was $378.92.
Erdkamp
noted that the landline is not working in the fire hall and the police
department phone is rarely used. The board opted to disconnect both the
fire hall and the police line.
Erdkamp
had requests recently from two different people wanting to bring trailer houses
into the village which is not allowed. She notified the county zoning
administrator that the village does not allow them. The next meeting was
scheduled for January 4.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Exeter-Milligan splits with Friend in home stand
The Friend Bulldogs definitely dogged the Exeter-Milligan
Timberwolves Tuesday night in Exeter. The first quarter of the girls Game found the Timberwolves just trailing the Bulldogs but one until Sophomore Kate Jansky sunk a three pointer at the buzzer to give E-M the lead 12-10. The girls were only up by two at the half 21-19. Regulation finished with a nailbiter tie 40-40 so it was off to overtime. The E-M girls dominated the overtime winning 46-40. Above: KK White handles the ball for
Exeter-Milligan while Raeleigh Menke follows.
below: Samantha Horne (with the ball) finds a way out from the
pack of bulldogs to find the net.
Above: Sidney Hall tries to hang on to the ball with #14 Brooke Baugh and #2 Claire Kubicek trying to strip the ball away.
Above: Samantha Horne throws a pass out from under the basket while Hailey Luzum, below, dribbles the ball.
Sydney, above and below working the ball in traffic,
The Bulldogs were too much for the Exeter-Milligan boys team/ The first quarter ended with Friend up 12-9 and at half it was 28-23 with Friend ahead. They bulldogs pulled ahead the third and fourth quarter winning 59-42. Above, Trevor Luzum, gets the ball out before the Bulldogs get him.
Cameron White hits the hoop for two above the Friend players and below, Eric Olsen beats Kolby Holden down the court.
Above: Patrick Murphy hit the hoop for two points and below Max Zeleny looks for an open player.
Above: Seth Maxson gets ready to pass the ball and below Patrick Murphy shoots one of his three point specials.
Above: Spencer Pribyl shoots on the line after he is fouled and below Eric Olsen takes some time to see where he wants to pass the ball.
Above: Patrick Murphy shoots and below Caleb Horne watches the progress of a shot.
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Exeter-Milligan Update: Sixth Graders Recycle
Ms.
Katherine Roemmich and sixth grade students have joined together to promote
recycling among students, teachers, and staff at Exeter-Milligan. Once a
week, students volunteer their time to pick up boxes of paper. Students
then gather all the paper together to be sent to a recycling center.
Students Sophia Gilliam and Jozie Kanode, are pictured gathering full boxes of
paper collected by the office staff, as well as 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
grade, and 6th grade students and teachers.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Exeter-Milligan Splits against Heartland Friday Night
The Lady Timberwolves extended their win record Friday night at home versus the Class D-1 Heartland Huskies. The Timberwolves held on to the lead that they had during the entire game but the final score ended just like the first quarter, ahead by one point. The final at the buzzer was Timberwolves 55-54 Huskies.
Above: Exeter-Milligan’s KK White shoots around Heartland #20 Megan Kroeker for two points in their one point win over the Huskies Friday night in Exeter. Below: KK goes up for another two.
15 – Hannah Beethe controls the ball for the Timberwolves in
an exciting fourth quarter in Exeter against the Heartland Huskies. The
Timberwolves kept their lead by one point at the final buzzer.
Sydney Hall takes stock of her options on the court above before taking a shot below.
Timberwolf Samantha Horne handles the ball around Huskie #12 Katie Bergen. The Timberwolves were up by over ten points during the third quarter but the Huskies came back in the fourth to make an exciting few minutes for the crowd in Exeter. The Timberwolves came out on top by one point.
Above: Sydney Hall is watched by the Huskies as she puts another two points up while below Kate Jansky shoots another three!
Above: Kate Jansky is hounded by some Huskies. Below: Hannah Beethe dribbles around two Huskies and hits the hoop for two.
Anna Sluka handles the ball during the third quarter.
The Timberwolf boys had a rough first quarter with their first points of the game coming from the foul line from Cameron White. The T-wolves were down by19 points at the half and never came close to the Huskies. The final score was 65-36 during the Friday night match-up.
Above Seth Maxson brings the ball into play for the Timberwolves.
Below: Eric Olsen dribbles the ball around Heartland’s #1
Austin Stuhr during Friday night’s matchup in Exeter.
Above: Patrick Murphy put the first three pointer on the board for the Timberwolves. Below: Murphy gets a fast break down the court.
Above: Trevor Luzum heads for the hoop for two while below Cameron White fights his way through traffic for another two points.
White sends another ball toward the hoop.
Above: Colton Bossaller goes up for two points before #22 Ben
Driewer knocks it away during Friday night’s game with the Heartland Huskies.
Below: Cameron White #42 looks for a way around #22 Ben
Driewer during the Timberwolves loss to Heartland Friday night.
Trevor Luzum rises above the Huskies to sink another bucket in the second half.
Eric Olsen looks for some room to move around the Huskies.
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Exeter Cemetery Clean-up
Over 35 people from Exeter and the surround community
members took advantage of the long Thanksgiving weekend to spend some time at
the Exeter Cemetery cleaning the windbreaks. Many uninvited trees had
grown into the windbreak and the crew spent the morning and part of the
afternoon cleaning up the overgrowth. Many volunteers brought their
chainsaws and other equipment to make quick work of the mess. The crew
were also provided with lunch on the beautiful day.
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