In this month’s Essent (PDF – it’s on page 6), the newsletter of the Nebraska Municipal Power Pool, I ran across some fun little factoids that illustrate just how closely linked many Nebraska towns are with their railroad-generated past. Corrinne Pedersen, NMPP Energy’s manager of member development, noted a few Nebraska towns named after railroad [...]

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 [...]

I got to report last week on one of my favorite stories of this summer: the local production of an original play to re-enact Loup City’s 1934 riot. This is a chapter of rural Nebraska history that I doubt many in the area are terribly familiar with, particularly younger or newer residents. (I had never [...]