Kirwin
Kirwin, KS · Municipal
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People Make A Point Of Walking This Nebraska District’s Brick Streets Lined With Historic Buildings And Boutiques
Grad and prom photo shoots aren’t allowed in one of Nebraska’s prettiest brick passageways. Honestly, I get why people keep trying. Greenery spills over old brick walls in there, and warm string lights glow overhead once evening rolls around. It feels like a garden someone hid inside a downtown block.
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Coast Business Council details changes and future plans
The Gulf Coast Business Council meeting provided changes as well as a look into the area's future in terms of economic development.
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Lincoln Adds Snowplow Technology, Plans Eight New Operators for Winter
Lincoln is adding technology to six snowplows and plans to hire eight additional equipment operators to strengthen its winter weather response. Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and Lincoln Transportation and Utilities Director Liz Elliott outlined the changes Thursday during a news conference at the Municipal Services Center. The new software will...
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Bellevue Moves Forward With Plans for Highway 34 Traffic Signals and Fort Crook Road Extension
A long-awaited second access route for Normandy Hills residents moved another step forward Tuesday, October 20, as the Bellevue City Council approved additional engineering work for the Fort Crook Road extension and traffic signal improvements along Highway 34. The planned extension would connect the neighborhood to Highway 34 through the...
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Husker football shuttle service says Lincoln denied request to lease equipment, drivers
The new operator of the longstanding Nebraska football gameday shuttle services said Wednesday that the city declined its request to lease equipment and drivers. Husker football gameday shuttle operator Pronto Corporation penned an open letter to Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird. The California-based company, under the brand name iPronto, said it has had to bring in vehicles from Omaha, Council Bluffs and Kansas City and used, “on some runs school buses because no motorcoach was available.”
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The Old Movie Theater In Nebraska That’s Still Screening Cult Classics 100 Years Later
One neighborhood movie house kept The Sound of Music on its screen for 118 straight weeks. That run once trailed only a theater in London. Not bad for a building that first opened its doors back when movies were still silent. The same screen now hosts midnight showings of The...
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Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition marks 40 years serving Native communities
Omaha, Neb — The Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition is marking 40 years of serving Native and non-Native communities in Omaha, with leaders pointing to decades of growth in culturally grounded health and treatment services. Liz Clifford, a community health worker and event center manager, said the nonprofit’s main...
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The Omaha area is running low on power capacity. That could harm Nebraska’s ability to grow.
This story is made possible through a partnership between Flatwater Free Press and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Omaha Public Power District is running low on available power capacity for its biggest potential users. That could threaten the region’s ability to develop economically, attract companies, add jobs and grow.
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Omaha-area races could end Republican supermajority in Nebraska Legislature
In the Nebraska Legislature’s District 12, a close race has candidates out knocking on doors in the last few weeks before the election. It’s important to get in front of voters, Christy Knorr said before she rang a doorbell in a southwest Omaha neighborhood. “Hello. How are you...
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Omaha City Council agenda notes for October 27
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Here are a few items on the agenda for Tuesday’s Omaha City Council meeting. No. 10: A consent agenda vote on using $4.89 million in foundation money for various park work across the city. No. 11: A consent agenda vote on approving a redevelopment agreement...
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Omaha Classmates Give Forgotten School Janitor a WWII Veteran's Burial Honors
Source: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jordan Lazaro / Wikimedia Commons. A government-furnished headstone now marks the grave of Herbert O’Hara, a World War II Army veteran who died in 1962 without family to remember him. Former students of Omaha’s St. John’s High School helped secure the marker after discovering his grave was unmarked.
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UNL Plans First Off-Campus Library in Downtown Lincoln
For the first time in nearly 158 years, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln plans to take its library collection off campus. UNL plans to open a roughly 5,000-square-foot branch inside Lincoln's future central library at 1111 O St., focused entirely on Lincoln and Nebraska history, with occupancy expected when the broader project wraps up in 2028.
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Millard American Legion, VFW delay move into new shared building until at least January 1
MILLARD, NE. — A new building in west Omaha that was supposed to open on October 1 as a combined home for two Millard veterans organizations will not open at all this year. The former El-Bee's building near 144th and Werner Way was supposed to become a joint home for the Millard American Legion Post and the Millard Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Prescribed burn set for Lincoln’s Pioneers Park Wednesday
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A prescribed burn will take place in Lincoln’s Pioneers Park Wednesday afternoon. Lincoln Parks and Recreation staff will conduct the prescribed burn starting at 1 p.m. on about five acres of land west of the sled run. The Prairie Corridor Trail between Pinewood Bowl parking...