News from neighbors
Morgan Community College receives $4.7 million Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program STEM grant
FORT MORGAN TIMES, Sept. 23 — Morgan Community College recently heard from U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet that the college has been selected to receive a Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program science, technology, engineering and math grant through the U.S. Department of Education, according to a news release.
The grant provides $989,740 in the first year and the opportunity for MCC to receive additional funding for a total of $4,705,749 over five years.
Morgan Community College first obtained official Hispanic-Serving Institution status in fall 2018.
The HSI Program STEM grant enables institutions like MCC to develop and implement activities to improve and expand their capacity to serve Hispanic and low-income students.
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Redistricting splits Perkins County
GRANT TRIBUNE-SENTINEL, Sept. 29 — Perkins County, Nebraska, is getting split up in the new districts for the Nebraska Legislature. As of Tuesday, 44th District Sen. Dan Hughes of Venango, Nebraska, said it looks like those boundaries are going to stick.
The Legislature remains in special session this week to put the final touches on redistricting of the state required every 10 years after a census.
The original redistricting map has Perkins County split between Districts 44 and 42. Presently, all of Perkins County is in District 44.
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1 occupant flown out after vehicle accident near Lamar
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Sept. 29 — The Chase County, Nebraska, Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call last Thursday at 6 a.m. reporting a one-vehicle accident 3 miles east of the Nebraska/Colorado state line.
The Imperial, Nebraska, Volunteer Fire Department and EMS responded to the scene at the Highway 6 and Road 313 intersection, along with Chase County Chief Deputy Mike Dukes and Sheriff Kevin Mueller.
Once on scene, Mueller said they found a vehicle on its top in a reuse pit with about 4 feet of water.
The investigation determined that 21-year-old Kristen Cisneros from Valparaiso, Indiana, was traveling west on Highway 6 in a 2016 Ford Fusion when she apparently fell asleep and went into the south ditch.
After waking up, Mueller said she over-corrected, causing the vehicle to go into the north ditch, hit an embankment and go airborne. The vehicle went nose-first into a reuse pit and flipped onto its top, he said.
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Water collaborative formed with Parker
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, Oct. 1 — The Lower South Platte Water Conservancy District and the Parker Water and Sanitation District have a formal agreement to develop a water right that would yield more than 70,000 acre feet of water from the South Platte River.
In a press release issued Thursday, the two districts announced the formation of the Platte Valley Water Partnership, a joint water supply project to use a new water right that the two entities own along the South Platte River near Sterling.
The project will make use of new and existing infrastructure to store and transport water for agricultural use in northeastern Colorado and municipal use along the Front Range.
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