News from neighbors

CCS graduate recovering in Denver after auger accident
    IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, July 18 — Noah Griffin, a 2018 graduate of Chase County Schools in Imperial, Nebraska, is recovering at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood.
    Griffin is working for Tom Luhrs this summer and was inside a grain bin on Monday.
    According to his mother, Marsie Vetter, the sweep auger was at a point where it was supposed to stop. “I don’t know if it didn’t stop or exactly what happened,” Vetter said, “but he thought it was supposed to stop, and he crawled out of the bin, and it ended up catching his jeans.”

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Commissioners reject City counteroffers
    WAUNETA BREEZE, July 18 — The frustration of the Chase County, Nebraska, commissioners was evident July 9 as the board discussed its options with proposed contracts with the City of Imperial, Nebraska.
    “It’s so stupid we have to go to extremes to reach an agreement,” Commissioner Dennis Kunnemann said. “I think most of the public, whether county or city, wonder what are these screwballs doing?”
    After the Imperial City Council turned down the County’s proposed dispatch agreement, which asked the City to pay $20,000 for the first year, $30,000 for the second year and $40,000 for the remainder of a five-year contract, the commissioners stood firm on their offer.

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