Stories from Tuesday, August 24, 2010

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Joyce A. Bose, 77, died Sunday (Aug. 22, 2010) at her home. She was born in Stamford, Nebraska to Clarence and Zelma (Newton) Bose. The family moved to a farm west of Cambridge when she was young. She went to school in Cambridge and graduated in 1949...

April 3, 1923-Aug. 22, 2010 CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Felix F. Meyerle, 87, died Sunday (Aug. 22, 2010) at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital. He was born on April 3, 1923, to Charles and Delia (Weyenberg) Meyerle on the family farm north of Holbrook, Nebraska in Gosper County. He attended country school and graduated from Holbrook High School in 1940...

OMAHA, Nebraska -- Gavilon Grain, LLC announced plans to construct a 800,000-bushel, slip-form concrete grain elevator with an additional 4 million bushels of bunker storage capacity near Benkelman, Nebraska. The state-of-the-art, 110-car BNSF shuttle facility will feature 60,000-bushel-per-hour truck unloading capability and a high-speed grain dryer. The Benkelman facility will handle corn from the 2010 harvest and is expected to be fully operational for the July 2011 wheat harvest...

CHICAGO -- McCook police officer Justin Pachner actually didn't throw out the first pitch at Sunday's Cubs game, but he was recognized by the announcer before the game. McCook firefighter Shane Smith arranged to have Pachner recognized by contacting his friend Pete Ricketts, a former candidate for U.S. Senate and now one of the owners of the Cubs...

City of McCook ambulance and fire, Red Willow Western Rural Fire Department and Red Willow County Sheriff's Office emergency personnel respond to a two-vehicle near-head-on collision at the intersection of Red Willow County roads 384 and 708 (seven miles south of McCook to the "Herndon Road") about 8:30 a.m., today. Also assisting on the scene was an officer from the Nebraska State Patrol. Accident information will be available when the investigation is complete...

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- A Cambridge woman who has been developing an "eco retreat" on her Cambridge-area farm for five years has 30 days to respond to concerns from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development about progress on "EarthBlooms Inc." Andela Taylor of rural Cambridge has until Sept. ...

When Benjamin Franklin stepped forth at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention he is reputed to have been asked "What kind of a government will we have?" His answer: "A Republic, if you can keep it!" A republic where "We the people" elect representatives to do our public business yet "We the people" still retain the final say in how that business is conducted. On the local level "We the people" have in actuality three ways to express our will...