Early last month, I was at a party with some friends, when one of them had to excuse themselves. They had gotten a phone call, and their cows were out.
A couple of weeks ago, a brown patch started to show up in the middle of my front yard. Ample rain this summer, and relatively little trouble with sprinklers, had kept my yard green and lush all year.
We should know soon if a group called Support Our Schools Nebraska was successful in gathering enough petition signatures to allow voters to decide the fate of the Opportunity Scholarship Act passed by the Legislature in its tumultuous session.
Over the years, I have written a lot of unique stories. However, on Friday evening, I believe I was confronted with writing one of the most unexpected and toughest stories of my career.
In May, ten Nebraska State Patrol troopers went to Texas for two weeks to help with drone surveillance of the border with Mexico. Recently, sixty Nebraska National Guard members went to Texas for a month for a similar assignment.
Ten Years Ago, 2013 The Greeley-Wolbach Board of Education’s building committee is in the process of formulating plans for constructing additions and renovations at the Greeley site. The building committee and Superintendent Amy Malander met on August 8th with Beckenhauer Constrution, whose management company will work with BVH Architect to assess the needs and identify the costs of the project.
A couple years ago, I was sitting around a campfire a couple miles from my home in Howard County, when an out-of-town guest asked me what I thought about a local attraction. Caught off guard by the question, I answered as truthfully as I could.