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Hunter seriously injured in gun accident

GRANT TRIBUNE-SENTINEL, Nov. 17 — Brett Rogers, 46, of Ogallala, Nebraska, suffered serious injury in a gun accident Saturday.

According to Sheriff Jim Brueggeman, Rogers was deer hunting when the accident occurred. He was accompanied by Lisa Resor of Grant, Nebraska.

The sheriff said Rogers had stopped his vehicle and was getting out with his rifle when the rifle discharged. The bullet struck Rogers in the back side of his left knee, causing serious damage to the knee and leg area.

Brueggeman said Resor used a T-shirt to apply a tourniquet above the wound and called for help.

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Nearly $400 million in wealth transfer expected in Perkins County over next 10 years

GRANT TRIBUNE-SENTINEL, Nov. 17 — During the next 10 years, more than $390 million of wealth in Perkins County, Nebraska, will transfer from one generation to the next. That astounding number was among the findings of the Nebraska Community Foundation’s 2021 Nebraska Transfer of Wealth Study.

The study revealed that more than $100 billion of the state’s wealth — that’s billion with a “B” — will pass from one generation to another during the same time frame.

Over the next 50 years, the figure swells to $950 billion.

The study serves as a vital tool in inspiring Greater Nebraskans to think about their communities in bigger terms, according to Jeff Yost, NCF president and CEO.

Yost said the transfer of wealth from generation to generation remains a constant, as parents die and leave their estates to their children.

It’s one thing when the wealth stays in the community or county where it was made.  However, due to outmigration over the years, many of those heirs no longer live where the wealth was built and may no longer feel connected to those places.

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