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Suspect Vehicle From Gering Hammer Attack ID’d
The Gering Police Department has released a little more information regarding an assault with a hammer that occurred last week on 20th Street. Today, Capt. Jason Rogers released several images of a black sedan captured by home surveillance video. Investigators believe this to be the vehicle the culprit behind the…
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Detected in South Dakota Dairy Herd
PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Agriculture (DANR) and the Animal Industry Board (AIB) have received confirmation from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) of the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a dairy cattle herd in South Dakota. This is the first…
Oikos Development rezoning request decision delayed
A decision on a re-zoning request from a Kansas City-based non-profit development company for an affordable housing project near McClellan Park has been pushed back. Monday night, the Gering City Council had been scheduled to vote on the change for Oikos Development, which plans to build duplexes and quadplexes in…
Blair FFA Chapter wins Launch! entrepreneur program at state convention
The Launch! Final Pitch took place on Friday, April 5 at the 96th Nebraska FFA Convention. Students from four different schools spent the school year developing their Launch! projects and businesses. McCool Junction’s “Blue River Freeze Dried Treats,” Blair’s “Bear Brew,” Plainview’s “Pirate Treasure,” and Thayer Central’s “TC Freezers” presented…
McGrew Man Sentenced to 4 to 6 Years in Prison
A 45-year-old McGrew man has been sentenced to prison after being convicted on two felony counts. Christopher Scala was arrested by Scottsbluff Police in October after officers found a stolen handgun and more than 10 grams of methamphetamine. In February, he pleaded no contest to charges Possession of Meth with…
World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
WHEAT: This month’s supply and demand outlook for 2023/24 U.S. wheat is for lowersupplies, reduced domestic use, unchanged exports, and higher ending stocks. Suppliesare tightened with a reduction in projected imports by 5 million bushels to 140 million on aslower-than-expected import pace, primarily for Hard Red Winter. Domestic consumptionis forecast…
KNEB.tv Sports: WNCC baseball feature
The WNCC baseball team is set to host a big four game weekend series with Otero Junior College at Cleveland Field on Saturday and Sunday with the regular season starting to wind down. WNCC is currently 20-19 on the year but more importantly sitting at 11-1 and atop the Region…
Bureau of Reclamation reports on water outlook for irrigation season
The annual Yonts Water Conference, held on Wednesday, April 10, at the UNL Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center in Scottsbluff, updated ag producers on topics from water to weather. “So, we've seen some improvement early on the snowpack, which was below average. Improvement is in the upper and lower…
WNCC’s Shintaro Inoue named Region IX Player of the Week
Western Nebraska Community College's Shintaro Inoue, of Yamaguchi, Japan, was named the Region IX Player of the Week for the week ending April 7. Inoue, the Cougar shortstop, had a historic week for the Cougars. Over the weekend Inoue broke two career records for WNCC, career home runs with 25 and…
Sidney’s North Elementary to be closed to help address budget gap
The Sidney Public School Board has made the decision to close an elementary school to help close a $600,000 budget gap for the coming year caused in large part by the loss of state aid. https://youtu.be/Jq_vID8HQRs In a letter to parents, Superintendent Andrew Farber announced the decision to close North…