News from neighbors
Town clock restored
HAXTUN-FLEMING HERALD, Oct. 10 — The clock that has hung along the south edge of the Haxtun Town Hall since 1920 received a facelift over the past few months, and Town employees unveiled the restored piece during Corn Festival activities on Saturday, Sept. 29.
Superintendent Ron Carpenter said last fall the clock stopped working and he began researching options to repair it. He was able to locate the company that originally manufactured the clock and received pictures of what it looked like new. Over the years, Carpenter said the clock had been modified, and the Town chose to restore it back to its original condition.
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Water district bill headed to legislature
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, Oct. 8 — Early next year Colorado lawmakers will consider a bill that expands the Republican River Water Conservation District, helping the district pay for a program that ensures the state delivers enough water to Kansas and Nebraska to meet its legal obligations.
Colorado has spent millions of dollars battling lawsuits over the problem and earlier this year agreed to pay Kansas and Nebraska another $4 million in damages.
The Colorado General Assembly’s Water Resources Review Committee has recommended a bill that would redraw the boundary of the Republican River district to include several hundred additional wells in Cheyenne County, whose pumping is reducing the flow of the river.
The bill would allow the district to assess the same fee on those well owners that it does on all irrigators in the district in order to pay for a pipeline that transports additional water to the river.
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Cattlemen’s Ball raises nearly $1.75 million
GRANT TRIBUNE-SENTINEL, Oct. 10 — The results are in, and the 2018 Cattlemen’s Ball of Nebraska brought in nearly $1.75 million — the second most money ever raised in the 21-year history of the event and the sixth time the event has topped the $1 million mark. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $15.57 million.
The event was hosted by Randy and Becky Hergott of Hebron, Nebraska, with Rob and Natalie Marsh serving as co-hosts.
Of the $1.75 million, more than $1.55 million went to the Fred & Pamela Buffett Center for cancer research, located at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and its clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine.
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