UPDATED 5/3/24: Compost Days for this Saturday, May 4th and Sunday, May 5th are canceled due to the amount of rain received and the saturation of the compost. ALCC is still planning on having their Compost Days on Saturday, May 11 and have added the date of Saturday, May 18. Both days will be…
Crop Progress as of April 28th: from Water Street SolutionsCorn Planted 27%; 12% last week; 22% on averageCorn Emerged 7%; 3% last week; 4% on averageSoybeans Planted 18%; 8% last week; 10% on averageWinter Wheat Headed 30%; 17% last week; 21% on averageWinter Wheat Condition 49% G/E; 50% G/E last…
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office/ Gordon Spencer. A search warrant on Sunday, executed by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and Aurora Police Department resulted in the seizure of drugs and one arrest. According to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, it was served at a residence in the 500 block of 14th…
Seward County Sheriff's Office reports what they believe, could possibly be the biggest methamphetamine bust in Nebraska. A deputy with the Seward County Interdiction Task Force initiated a traffic stop of a Toyota Highlander last Thursday, April 25, 2024 on Interstate 80. During the traffic stop, the deputy became increasingly…
MANHATTAN — A Kansas State University researcher has new support to battle one of the biggest global threats to pigs and swine production, which is a $57-billion-dollar industry in the U.S. The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, or FFAR, recently awarded a $1 million Seeding Solutions Grant to Waithaka Mwangi, immunology professor…
ROSEMONT, Ill. – A checkoff-led pilot in Cincinnati schools that offered lactose-free chocolate milk increased consumption and reached students who weren’t drinking milk because of real or perceived lactose intolerance. National Dairy Council (NDC) and American Dairy Association Mideast worked with Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) to offer the country’s first single-serve…
BROKEN BOW - Broken Bow senior MaKinley Tobey will continue her basketball career at Peru State College this fall. Tobey said Peru State's coaches reached out to her and attended a few Broken Bow games this past season and she made an official visit after the season ended. Broken Bow…
Due to wet conditions, today's B-8 Sub-District games are being moved from Lexington Optimist Fields to Ray Ehlers Stadium. Lexington will play Gering at 3:30 CT pm and the Scottsbluff vs Holdrege game will be 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first game.
Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., a first-generation college student, heart surgeon and longtime college administrator who for the last decade has led the University of Nebraska Medical Center through a period of record growth, was confirmed Friday as NU’s ninth president by the Board of Regents. Dr. Gold, who also serves as the…
OMAHA — Gov. Jim Pillen joined leaders from the Omaha, Bennington, Elkhorn and Waterloo areas in thanking Nebraskans for listening to weather forecasts that warned them to take shelter during Friday’s storms. “It is an extraordinary miracle that we’ve had this kind of a cell come through, and no categories…