Fort Calhoun News

Learning to play guitar or drums isn't just for teenagers. Teachers have had students as old as 70.

I am sadly disappointed at some of the questions asked at the Jan. 19 nuclear regulatory meeting that discussed the increased inspection at the Omaha Public Power District's Fort Calhoun station.

Unseasonably heavy snows in the Great Plains, heavy rainfall upriver and a late snowpack melt combined to flood the Missouri river from late May through September 2011, a flood which utility Omaha Public Power District calls the longest-lasting flooding of any US nuclear power plant.

The Desoto Park Estate housing development near Fort Calhoun was nearly washed away this summer by the flooding Missouri River.

An Omaha inmate involved in a high-profile sexual assault was home for most of December through the state's re-entry furlough program.