News from Neighbors

Madrid man offers foam-fixing funnel for home brewing

GRANT TRIBUNE-SENTINEL, Sept. 2 — After brewing his own kombucha for nearly half a year, Marlin Unruh was fed up with foam issues and invented his own funnel, specifically for brewing beverages.

Unruh, an employee at Sunco Systems in Madrid, Nebraska, for the past 30 years, first got into brewing kombucha around two years ago. His son had mentioned it to him, and he tried store-bought kombucha. He didn’t quite like the flavor, so he decided to make his own.

Kombucha is a fermented, sweetened, lightly carbonated green or black tea. According to Unruh, the drink is full of probiotics, vitamins and amino acid.

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Cost approved for final phase of Yuma-1 project

YUMA PIONEER, Sept. 3 — The final guaranteed maximum price for Yuma School District-1’s $32 million expansion/renovation project was set Monday night.

The Yuma-1 Board of Education unanimously approved the $17.1 million GMP during a special meeting.

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Women take whirlwind tour seeing state’s ‘hidden gems’

IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Sept. 3 — One thing Norma Hickman and Sherry Dowdy are certain of — Nebraska knows how to promote tourism.

Hickman of Imperial, Nebraska, and her niece from Republic, Missouri, completed the 2020 Nebraska Passport Program last week.

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