News from neighbors
Anaerobic digester in the works
YUMA PIONEER, Feb. 8 — An anaerobic digester plant that would convert animal waste into a usable energy source, among other things, is being planned for south of Yuma.
Sheldon Kye Energy and Harvest Operating LLC are teaming up to develop the digester. They hope to break ground in 2018, ideally before summer. Construction could take nine to 15 months. The project is set at $20 million.
Anaerobic digestion is the natural breakdown of organic matter into carbon dioxide, methane and water, utilizing two groups of microorganisms, bacteria and archaea. It is called anaerobic because the microorganisms are intolerant to oxygen.
“We’re wanting to make a useful product out of (animal waste),” Brian Johnson of Sheldon Kye Energy said.
The process removes pathogens and hydrogen sulphide, as well as ammonia, from animal waste and creates basic usable products. One is biogas. The developers want to tie in to a nearby interstate pipeline and put the renewable natural gas into the grid. Johnson said carbon dioxide also can be captured during the process, and it can be sold for industrial use.
However, those living close to the proposed location have concerns about it being located so close to their homes.
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Emergency meeting questions if Revere Child Care will sink
JULESBURG ADVOCATE, Feb. 9 — The Revere School Board met in an emergency meeting Jan. 31. Including the board, there were 20 concerned parents and members of the Revere Child Care Center Task Force. There was only one topic for the evening’s agenda — What is the future for the child care center?
The Revere Child Care Center is one of two centers that opened in the summer of 2017. The other, located in Julesburg, closed within three months of opening due to costs and regulations. Now the Revere center is questioning if it can stay open.
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Veterans Memorial gains financial boost with $100,000 City donation
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Feb. 8 — Realization of a long-held dream by many Chase County, Nebraska, veterans received a major boost Monday from the Imperial, Nebraska, City Council.
The council voted 4-0 to earmark $100,000 toward the memorial project that hopes to break ground this spring. The City will use sales tax money in the community development fund for its contribution.
Commissioner Dave Hogsett, who was at Monday’s meeting, said all three commissioners are in agreement that a good place for the memorial is on the southeast corner of the courthouse grounds, facing Broadway.
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CPS purchases Ag-Land Aviation
GRANT TRIBUNE-SENTINEL, Feb. 7 — Crop Production Services is the new owner of Ag-Land Aviation, with the official transition taking place Jan. 11.
CPS took over for previous owners, Ole and Rochelle Sihm, after 25 years of ownership. Sihms gained ownership in the winter of 1992, after managing Steggs Aerial Spraying for eight years prior to that.
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