I had a chance Monday to do some checking in on some of the things going on in some Central Nebraska over the past few weeks. Here’s what I found: Burwell — The big news out of Burwell is that the city council is taking bids for the Community Memorial Health Center, Burwell’s city-owned nursing home [...]

A nice, quiet weekend shift on Saturday gave me plenty of time to check in on what’s going on around Central Nebraska. Here’s a few items I found noteworthy — I wrote this on Saturday, and I must have been hungry. (An explanation of Nebraska Notes is here.) Albion (and Ord) — The Albion News reports that city [...]

In a presentation to the Grand Island Rotary Club on Tuesday, John Jordison of the rural-focused group Nebraska Renaissance outlined a strategy to boost Nebraska’s population to 2 million by 2020. (It’s at about 1.78 million right now.) The strategy, from a study (PDF) commissioned by the group last month, is remarkably thorough, with 47 [...]

One of the regular routines of the Central Nebraska beat involves going through many of the area’s weekly newspapers for nuggets of news. Sometimes those nuggets are splashed across the front page, and other times they’re hidden in the tiny print of public meeting minutes or even advertisements. I don’t typically report on many of [...]