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The consumption tax just won’t go away, but it should 03/23/2023 03:00 AM

Lead testing for drinking water available for Nebraska schools and childcare facilities

Lead testing for drinking water available for Nebraska schools and childcare facilities

LINCOLN—The Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (NDEE) has remaining funds available for Nebraska schools and licensed child care facilities to sample for lead in their drinking water. All public, parochial, and private schools from pre-K through high school, and public and inhome child care facilities qualify. This free lead testing was first announced in August 2020. 03/23/2023 03:00 AM

Drew Leisy, senio

Drew Leisy 03/23/2023 03:00 AM

Tornado siren testing begins next Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Tornado siren testing begins next Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Weekly testing to continue on Thursdays at 10 a.m. 03/23/2023 03:00 AM

Bridgeport boys overcame growing pains to enjoy another successful season

Bridgeport boys overcame growing pains to enjoy another successful season

With a roster filled with plenty of youth and inexperience, the Bridgeport boys basketball team expected to feel some growing pains this season. That certainly proved to be true, especially early on, as the Bulldogs split their first eight games and just couldn’t find the right consistency. It didn’t help that three of those four losses came to opponents that ended up finishing the season with 23 or more wins. 03/16/2023 03:00 AM

Speech team holds Forensic Night

Speech team holds Forensic Night

State bound speakers from Bridgeport gave a special performance on Monday night in the high school auditorium; the widely talented group performed before a fair-sized crowd, who could be heard laughing one minute and brought to tears the next. 03/16/2023 03:00 AM

Kris Marie Coulter

Kris Marie Coulter

Kris Coulter died unexpectedly at home February 22, 2023. She was born to Calvin and Virginia Christensen Coulter in Bridgeport, Nebraska, on March 18, 1956. 03/16/2023 03:00 AM

Keeping our communities safe

Keeping our communities safe

One of government’s primary responsibilities is to keep people safe. Elected officials make laws that keep the peace and protect us from violent criminals. It’s an idea that seems like common sense to an overwhelming majority of us.Yet in recent years, loud voices on the far-left crying “Defund the Police” have pushed policies threatening that most basic role of government. 03/16/2023 03:00 AM

Taking a stand for rural america

Taking a stand for rural america

Agriculture producers in Nebraska have earned their standing as world leaders in agriculture through their excellence and tradition of respecting the natural resources with which our state is blessed. No one cares more about the land and water of our state than the farmers and ranchers whose livelihoods depend on careful management these resources. 03/16/2023 03:00 AM

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Voter ID proposals are anything but cut and dried 03/16/2023 03:00 AM