Courthouse renovation will proceed
April 21, 2009
Renovation of the Boone County Courthouse could begin within the next several months.
After nearly two years of consideration and many changes, County Commissioners on Monday approved the basic plan for renovation and authorized their architects and construction manager to move forward with the project.
Initial plans to build an addition for a new courtroom were shelved several months ago, and the project now includes only renovation of the existing building.
Brad Kissler, principal architect with Canon Moss Brygger and Associates presented the renovation plans Monday to county officials. Although the basic plan is in place, commissioners reserved the right to make some changes as the project moves toward construction.
See the April 22 Albion News Print Edition for complete details.
City wins grant for downtown focus study
April 21, 2009
City of Albion was notified Monday, April 20, that it has received a Housing Study Grant from the Nebraska Investment Finance Authority (NIFA) for a focus study on the downtown area.
The grant will provide half of the funding ($10,000) for a special study of the downtown area as part of its current comprehensive planning process.
Albion Economic Development Corp. has requested that the city fund the other half of the project from city sales tax receipts designated for economic development.
City Council approves street project plans
April 21, 2009
Plans for as much as $375,000 in street improvement projects this summer were approved by the Albion City Council last Tuesday night, April 14.
The council approved four projects in the city’s one-year street plan as proposed by John Zwingman of Advanced Consulting Engineering Services, and authorized Zwingman to advertise for bids on the projects.
Zwingman said he will try to hold the bid opening by May 8 and make recommendations to the council at its next meeting Tuesday, May 12. Read more
Albion News, Petersburg Press win awards
April 21, 2009
Displaying NPA awards are, l. to r., Datrece Voichoski, Joe Flanagan, and Jim and Julie Dickerson.
On Friday, both newspapers received a top award from the Nebraska Corn Board for production of the Best 2008-09 Nebraska Corn Tabloid for weekly newspapers over 1,500 circulation.
This special section, the Boone County Corn & Grains Outlook, was produced in March, 2009. Datrece Voichoski created the advertising, Jim Dickerson wrote the local news articles and Julie Dickerson designed the cover and composed special section pages.
Both newspapers also received awards at the NPA Better Newspaper contest final banquet on Saturday night. Read more
NPPD gets 20 proposals from wind farm developers
April 21, 2009
A total of 20 proposals from nine wind developers were received by Nebraska Public Power District in response to its most recent wind energy-related Request For Proposal (RFP), which closed April 15.
Last November, NPPD issued the RFP calling for construction of an 80-megawatt wind farm in either the Petersburg/Elgin or Broken Bow areas. NPPD would then purchase the electricity generated at the wind farm through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).
The process is similar to NPPD’s first wind-energy related RFP, except that specific locations for the wind farms were identified and also allowed privately-owned developers to make proposals using land on which NPPD currently has agreements with landowners. Developers could also propose projects on land they control as a company.
NPPD received eight proposals at Broken Bow and seven at Petersburg/Elgin on the NPPD controlled sites. Private developers also submitted proposals on their own sites, one at Broken Bow and four in the Petersburg/Elgin area.
Private companies bidding on their own development sites included Third Planet Windpower and Midwest Wind Energy, both of which have development sites in the Petersburg/Elgin area. Invenergy is another private company that submitted a bid.
‘Making a Difference’ is TeamMates Walk theme
April 21, 2009
Kayberly Nelson participates in the TeamMates Walk
The walk started at 1 p.m. and lasted until 2 p.m., symbolizing the one hour that TeamMates mentors spend with their youth mentees each week. Participating were Alex Sunderland, Carolyn Gray, Kalene Howell, Mitzi Fox, Arnold Johnson, Kay Nelson, Kayberly Nelson, Melinda Johnson, Ed Knott, Chandra Griesman, Colleen Krasser, Janet Schmitz and Susan Wolf. Read more
Boone Central names 2009 Prom royalty
April 21, 2009
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Samantha Johnson receives State FFA Degree
April 21, 2009
Samantha Johnson
This degree signifies many things for FFA youth. It means they have developed leadership skills, kept accurate records of their Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE), and have been involved with local, state and national activities.
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