News from Neighbors
It’s here: Northbound traffic starts on Fourth Street
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, March 7 — For the first time in over six decades, traffic began traveling both directions on Fourth Street in Sterling on Friday. Third Street is also undergoing a two-way conversion.
The conversion of the one-way to two-way traffic is part of the ongoing S-curve project, which began about a year ago and is slated for completion this fall. The project is intended to reroute truck traffic along a new road connecting highways 6, 138 and 14 in Sterling. The S-curve uses an abandoned railroad right of way to join Chestnut at Fourth Street and West Main at Division Avenue.
Co-op customers angry, worried, puzzled
WAUNETA BREEZE, March 5 — Like any problem with a local business, the situation at Cenex Co-ops in Wauneta, Nebraska, and Palisade, Nebraska, has left customers angry, worried and, above all, perplexed.
That particularly includes those who prepaid for propane and now cannot get it, or get their money back.
“There’s a lot of very upset people in Palisade, because they are stuck without propane,” said Kenny Hohl of Wauneta. “Everybody I’ve talked to is so disgusted.”
Part of what has so upset Hohl is that the January closing of the stations came with no warning.
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Hidden Acre gets a start
YUMA PIONEER, March 5 — There is a new development in town that is generating a lot of interest. Three Yuma men — Shane Galles, Justin Coughlin and Chad Rayl — have teamed up to create Revive Management, with an eye on creating a quality rental housing development on an approximately 3-acre lot between North Birch and North Main.
The first duplex of what will eventually be a 24- or 25-unit complex arrived a couple of weeks ago and was moved onto its foundation, with crews using a large crane to do so, last Thursday — attracting quite a crowd of onlookers in the process.
“Yuma needs it,” Galles said. “Yuma is short of housing. It’s nice to be able to do something to help improve the community ... it’s time for some of us younger guys to step up to the plate, take the risk, and it is a risk.”
Rayl said Revive Management wanted to stay away from traditional low-income housing. “We wanted to revive our community,” he said. “That’s the direction our company is taking.”
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Ban on turbine blades in county landfill considered
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, March 4 — Wind turbine blades won’t be buried in the Logan County landfill any longer.
Although no vote was taken, the Logan County Commissioners were in agreement at their workshop meeting Tuesday morning that a prohibition of the blades was in order.
Matt Chrisp, landfill supervisor, told the commissioners the landfill has accepted three blades in the past eight years, and all of them were from outside the county. Chrisp said the blades have to be cut into 10-foot lengths so the county’s equipment can handle them.
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