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Wastewater Treatment Plant has experienced reduction in biological wastewater-treatment capacity
The City of Norfolk is notifying the public that its Wastewater Treatment Plant experienced a substantial reduction in its biological wastewater-treatment capacity beginning on approximately Monday September 14th, 2026. The biological treatment process is the portion of the plant that uses microorganisms to reduce pollutants in wastewater before treated effluent...
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Nebraska Head Starts use vests with ‘talk pedometers’ to boost early literacy
LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - On a mid-June morning in Norfolk, a group of 2- and 3-year-olds clumsily ran around a playroom wearing identical purple cloth vests. As the toddlers babbled to their teachers, a rectangular recording device hidden in a chest pocket captured every word as they asked to go to the bathroom, talked about their favorite book or explained their newest drawing.
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Nebraska Head Starts use vests with ‘talk pedometers’ to boost early literacy
On a mid-June morning in Norfolk, a group of 2- and 3-year-olds clumsily ran around a playroom wearing identical purple cloth vests. As the toddlers babbled to their teachers, a rectangular recording device hidden in a chest pocket captured every word as they asked to go to the bathroom, talked about their favorite book or explained their newest drawing.
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Columbus sets updated regulations for e-bikes and scooters
COLUMBUS, Neb. (KLKN) — Columbus City Council has created new regulations for electric bikes and scooters. On Tuesday, Sept. 8, the Council approved a new ordinance that updated regulations for the electric mobility devices. According to the City of Columbus, the ordinance was under deliberation before the recent death...
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Norfolk City Council approves extreme-blighted designation of south Norfolk
The Norfolk City Council has approved the Extremely Blighted Determination for the site generally located south of Omaha Avenue and east and west of South 1st Street. Council members first voted to approve the Norfolk Redevelopment Area Blight and Substandard Study. Keith Carl, a community planner with Hanna Keelan Associates...
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Overlay paving to begin as part of 2026 milling and overlay project
The City of Norfolk will begin overlay paving as part of its 2026 Milling and Overlay Project today (Wednesday). Paving operations will begin on streets where milling has been completed, weather permitting. The initial overlay work will include: Braasch Avenue from 7th to 5th Streets and 5th Street from Braasch...
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Climbing to remember: Norfolk firefighters, community members climb to honor 9/11 victims
Participants of all ages worked to climb up and down the stairs at the stadium for hours, 42 sets to be exact, enough climbing to equal 110 flights of stairs, the same as each of the Twin Towers.
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Elkhorn Valley Museum, Norfolk Community Theatre to team up for cemetery tour
The Elkhorn Valley Museum and Norfolk Community Theatre are teaming up for the fourth annual Cemetery Tour. Museum Executive Director and CEO, Libby McKay told News Talk WJAG, this year, they’ll be visiting Prospect Hill Cemetery in Norfolk which serves as the final resting place for some of Norfolk’s most important historical figures including Karl Stefan, Dr. Richard Tanner, and the Butterfields who were instrumental in securing a Carnegie Library for Norfolk.