News from neighbors

Huge hailstone breaks decades-old Colorado record

AKRON NEWS-REPORTER, Aug. 21 — Hailstorms near Bethune and the Colorado/Kansas state line are pretty common, according to the Miltenberger family, but last Tuesday’s storm was something else.

When the storm finally calmed down, one of Kylee Miltenberger’s daughters ran out into the front yard to collect hail samples. She found a whopper.

The Miltenberger family measured it against a ruler, showing it a little larger than 5 inches in diameter. That blows the previous record of 4.5 inches out of the water.

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Plains deer season under scrutiny at meeting

STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, Aug. 24 — An agenda being pushed by a member of the Colorado Commission on Parks and Wildlife could dramatically change deer hunting season on the Eastern Plains.

Marvin McDaniel has made it clear he wants the rifle hunting season on the plains moved away from the breeding season for white tail and mule deer. While he’s taken no formal action to make that happen, he’s voiced his preference, most recently during the commission’s July meeting in Telluride.

McDaniel, however, is in the minority. A presentation at that Telluride meeting showed that there is overwhelming support to leave the rifle hunting season for deer just the way it is: 11 days beginning with the last full weekend of October. That season is followed by the bow season, which lasts until December, when second deer rifle season opens.

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Hail storms devastate crops before plentiful harvest

GRANT TRIBUNE-SENTINEL, Aug. 21 — While some farmers ended up more fortunate, others saw a 100% loss in their crops from a hail storm that hit Tuesday, Aug. 13. From north of Grant, Nebraska, to Madrid, Nebraska, south, people experienced devastating damage from broken windows and overturned pivots to total crop loss.

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Capital campaign underway to fund expansion

STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, Aug. 20 — Northeastern Junior College is launching an aggressive campaign to raise $6.7 million to fund construction that will expand and improve its Applied Technology Campus in Sterling.

Nearly two-thirds of the college’s staff and faculty pledged or donated a total of more than $26,000 last week in support of the expansion, which is scheduled to begin in summer of 2020.

The project will add more than 39,000 square feet to about 54,000 square feet of existing campus buildings that provide needed space for career and technical education programs such as welding, automobile service and repair, diesel vehicle service and repair, wind turbine maintenance, and precision agriculture.

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Suspicious person trespasses on rural Champion property

IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Aug. 15 — Chase County, Nebraska, Sheriff’s Department was called to the home of Matt and Kelsey Owens in Champion, Nebraska, July 31 on a report of a suspicious person.

Owens’ daughter and a friend were home alone.

The girls were moving items from Owens’ trailer into their new house. When they went back outside, the girls saw a man walking up the driveway from the north. “They ran back inside and hid in a room in the basement,” Owens said.

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Radio announcer covers Chase County Fair 50 years

IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Aug. 15 — John Brandt, radio announcer and sales manager for KOGA radio station in Ogallala, Nebraska, has been covering the Chase County Fair in Imperial, Nebraska, for 50 years.

Brandt said his boss had him convinced for the first 10 years that coming to cover the Chase County Fair was like a vacation.

“The truth is, it really was like a vacation. I love this fair,” he said.

There have been so many great entertainers who appeared at this fair through the years, he said. “Special to me was the chance I got to speak with Kenny Rogers, Roy Clark and Lynn Anderson. These were just some of the fair highlights that stand out,” Brandt said.

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