YORK – With the passage of the 2023-24 budget for the city, the LB 357 capital improvements for theyear have also been set with detail, including the smaller projects that fall outside the bonded projects.The improvement projects are outlined in the city’s annual appropriations bill.Included will be the resurfacing of…
YORK – York’s Peyton Parker Lane Playground and York Parks and Recreation wererecently recognized by the Nebraska Parks and Recreation Association for excellence.Peyton Parker Lane Playground received this year’s NERPA Parks and FacilitiesDevelopment Award. Michaela Stuhr received the organization’s 2023 President’sAward. And Cheree Folts, the city’s parks and recreation director…
GRESHAM – The Gresham community is facing the reality their old school building is over 100 years oldand it is time to take down the old structure – but that takes money and they need local donors to helpthem achieve this goal.The Gresham Community Club is heading up the effort,…
YORK – A compensation study, to determine how county employees’ wages and salaries compare withother counties and in the private sector, has been officially approved by the commissioners.During the budget process, the commissioners considered raises while holding spending, having lengthyconversations about what is competitive, what is reasonable, what can be…
YORK – After months of work and weeks of conversation, as well as a LB644 tax asking public hearingand a separate hearing for the budget itself, the York County budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year has beenpassed.The county commissioners gave their final stamp of approval, while convened in regular session.…
YORK – A 55-year-old York man, who is classified as being a transient in court documents, hasbeen arraigned in a case involving his alleged being drunk on a lawnmower and threateningofficers with a knife.Don Steinshouer pleaded not guilty this week, to charges of terroristic threats, a Class 3A felony,and attempt…
YORK – Tristan Busler, 22, of York, has pleaded guilty to two counts of terroristicthreats and will be sentenced for two Class 3A felonies after threatening to killcorrections staff at the York County Jail, as well as their families.Busler pleaded guilty to both counts this week in York County District…
YORK – York’s Foster Park, one of the most beautiful city-owned acreages in town, officially turned 30years old today, Sept. 13.The park was dedicated on Sept. 13, 1992.Prior to being a park, the land owned by Hub Foster was home to a very large brickyard. When Foster, amore-than-25-year member of…
YORK – Next Monday, Sept. 18, at 6:01 p.m., a special hearing will be held in the basement of thecourthouse, during which a presentation of information regarding the county’s tax asking for the 2023-24 fiscal year will take place.This hearing is being required due to the state’s Property Tax Request…
YORK – The August city sales tax receipts came in as the highest total for any August since the city salestax was created back in 1998.The city took in $482,619.14 in August, compared to $426,694 last year. Last year’s August total was thefirst time the receipts exceeded $400,000 in an…
