News from Neighbors
UNK will offer in-state tuition to Colorado, Kansas students
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Oct. 26 — University of Nebraska at Kearney just made it more attractive for students from Colorado and Kansas to become Lopers.
Beginning in fall 2018, UNK will offer in-state tuition rates for residents from those two states who enroll as regular on-campus undergraduate students and meet assured admissions requirements.
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Colorado organic dairy looking to expand in Chase County
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Oct. 12 — Aurora Organic Dairy, based in Boulder wants to expand their operation to Chase County, Nebraska.
Aurora spokesperson Sonja Tuitele said their plans for expanding into Chase County remain in the early stages.
She said a separate but related land-holding company already owns a number of irrigated quarters ranging from 4 to 6 miles northwest of Imperial, Nebraska.
The privately owned company operates organic dairies in Colorado’s Weld County and two in the panhandle of Texas.
Presently, all of the milk is being processed at a plant in Platteville. By early 2019, they will add another processing plant in Columbia, Missouri.
Tuitele said milk produced in Chase County would likely be shipped to the new plant for processing.
Phase 1 of their project calls for construction of one milking barn that can accommodate between 1,200 to 1,400 head of dairy cattle.
With that number of animals, she said, the operation milks 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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Notorious serial killer charged in new murder, escape try
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, Oct. 20 — Serial killer Scott Kimball has been arrested for investigation of solicitation to commit first-degree murder and attempted escape.
An arrest warrant was filed Tuesday by the FBI against Kimball, who is being held in Sterling Correctional Facility.
Kimball, 51, allegedly plotted the escape and murder between May 6 and Sept. 22 while he was incarcerated in Sterling, according to Logan County District Court documents.
Kimball, an FBI-informant-turned-serial-killer, is serving a 70-year sentence for four murders committed after he was released from federal prison in December 2002 to act as an FBI informant. He’s also serving 48 years for fraud and 70 months on a federal gun charge.
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Hospital board selects Colorado design-build team
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Oct. 19 — The possibility of a new hospital for Chase County, Nebraska, took another step forward Tuesday with action by the hospital board.
On Monday, the board members interviewed four finalists to complete a design and cost estimate for a new hospital.
Following a recess of Monday’s meeting, board members voted unanimously Tuesday to select the team of Adolfsom & Peterson Construction of Aurora and Davis Partnership Architects of Denver.
The hospital is working closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a funding source for the new hospital.
Board members favored a new facility versus renovating the existing facility, which is nearly 40 years old.
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Road projects on time so far
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, Oct. 21 — Road construction in the Sterling area should be finished by Thanksgiving, according to supervising engineers for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
The 12-mile stretch of U.S. 6 east of Colorado Highway 61 is about 60 percent finished, according to CDOT’s Joel McCracken.
“The paving is really weather-dependent because it’s temperature-sensitive,” McCracken said Friday. “We’re scheduled to be finished by mid-November, but if we run into some (bad) weather, it may slide to Thanksgiving.”
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