Benkelman News

Irrigators in the Upper Republican Natural Resources District heard first hand last week the regulation options the Department of Natural Resources will impose in water-short years.A More than 100 people attended the NRDa s October meeting last Thursday, Oct.

Gene O. Morris, left, accepts his Hall of Fame plaque from Governor Dave Heineman and Interim Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications, Charlyne Berens.

Students from Central Elementary in McCook deliver foods donated by students to the McCook Pantry in late 2008.

The Dundy County Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that The Rumbles will be visiting Benkelman! That's right, the most popular and successful rock-and-roll dance band in the Midwest will be right here, in Benkelman on Friday, September 18th.

What started as an idea to have a street dance has now taken on a life of its own and moved into the inspirational category.

Red Willow County commissioners Monday approved a beer garden in conjunction with the second annual "McCook Farm and Ranch Expo" scheduled Wednesday and Thursday, Nov.

McCook Public Schools Superintendent Grant Norgaard, right, and Jim Jumps, who works in the school district's maintenance division and is in charge of its buildings' heating and cooling systems, stand beside the chilling unit of the junior high's new air conditioning system.

Outstanding artwork by regionally and nationally acclaimed painters, sculptors and photographers will be featured at the Great Southwest Art Auction & Expo.

John Hubert, a member of the board of directors of the High Plains Historical Society, inspects a glob of green glass that fellow board member and McCook historian Walt Sehnert believes could have been created during a "UFO landing" northwest of Benkelman in 1884.

With just less than nine months until the start of the 2010 Census on April 1, population estimates released by the Census Bureau show downward trend in rural population.A In fact, of the 13 incorporated cities and villages in the five-county area surrounding Chase County, only foura 'Palisade, Hayes Center, Elsie and Madrida 'showed declines less ...

Frances Ellen Greene Erickson, 92, of McDonald, Kan., died Friday, June 19, at the Rawlins County Hospital after suffering a stroke.

A southeast Nebraska family has received $10,000 from the Web site Overstock.com to help pay bills.

A Benkelman woman has won a $10,000 prize in an online contest sponsored by Overstock.com The Benkelman News reports that Bonnie Willis won the retailer's monthly "Family Bailout Sweepstakes," a contest that pays $10,000 directly to the creditors of one winner each month through November.

If the swine flu were to break out in Nebraska, local officials say they have new technology to connect with every hospital and health department in the state to share vital information.