News from neighbors
Federal funds coming to build apartments
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, March 14 — Pending approval by Sterling City Council, a federal grant for new housing will help relieve local homelessness in the near future.
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate approved a funding bill that included congressionally directed spending requests. Included in the bill is a $550,000 grant to build the Springdale Apartments, a 38-unit apartment building that will offer homeless individuals and families in the Sterling area a new start in life.
Dr. Elizabeth Hickman, director of Centennial Mental Health Services headquartered in Sterling, emphasized that Springdale is not a homeless shelter but what is called “permanent supporting housing.”
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Waves of Americans support Freedom Convoy
GRANT TRIBUNE-SENTINEL, March 9 — Thousands upon thousands of Americans from all walks of life, political beliefs, vaccinated and unvaccinated gathered at overpasses, highways and byways across America this past week to cheer on The People’s Convoy of trucks, cars and pickups as they made their way to Washington, D.C., in an effort to end the Emergency Powers Act for Coronavirus, including all mandates.
The convoys eventually merged and arrived in D.C. on Sunday, March 6. One leg of the convoy started in Oregon and ended up traveling through Nebraska down I-80. After entering Nebraska, the Oregon convoy stayed the night Thursday, March 3, in Big Springs, where they were welcomed with a rally of approximately 50 people, according to Patti Barnt from Mullen, Nebraska, who served as the western regional lead for The People’s Convoy-Nebraska.
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Burlington City Council meeting generates good conversation
BURLINGTON RECORD, March 3 — This week’s much anticipated Burlington City Council meeting was the place to be. The main conference room at the Burlington Community and Education Center was filled with 100 or so concerned citizens.
The topic of interest for those in attendance were the proposed changes to the city code if Initiative 1-B passes.
The initiative, in layman’s terms, if approved, would allow for a tax to be placed on retail marijuana sales, along with allowing for retail marijuana stores, aka dispensaries, in Burlington.
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