Dawson County News

Sawyer Brown, billed as one of the nation's popular country music groups, will headline the Dawson County Fair in two weeks.

The Dawson County Alzheimera TMs Association 2009 Memory Walk was held June 18 at Muny Park in Cozad.

Discovery motions were argued Friday afternoon in Dawson county district court in Lexington on behalf of 26 year old Jake Johannsen who faces charges of second-degree murder and use of a deadly weapon.

Russell E. Wilcox, 58, of Farnam died Sunday, June 21, 2009, at his home in Farnam.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has denied a motion for rehearing of its recent ruling which denied authority to form a village a Johnson Lake, southwest of Lexington.

A rural Cozad man was arrested on Father's Day after allegedly choking his 9-year-old son.

Two North Platte people avoided serious injury Sunday evening when the vehicle they riding in rolled on a county road northeast of Gothenburg.

A high-speed, telephone emergency alerting system is available for residents and businesses in Dawson and Gosper Counties.

After 18 years with the same third-party health insurance provider, Dawson County employees are in for a change.

Local News SEEKING SPECIAL PERMIT: Doug and Cyndi Stevens of rural Gothenburg want a special use permit to buy the Bob and Jenny Raymond home at 817 23rd St.

A Lexington man was NOT allowed to withdraw his guilty plea to drug charges following a hearing Friday in Dawson county district court.

Nearly everyone has been touched by cancer in one way or another. When you ask cancer survivors or their caregivers what helped them get through grueling treatment or even the loss of a loved one, most can answer in one worda 'hope. While in treatment, cancer patients may hope for strength during treatment or for a lifesaving cure.

Eight months of preparation, planning and fund raising is coming to an end as the Dawson Gosper Hero Flight becomes a reality this week.

A former director of the Lexington Area Chamber of Commerce has been sentenced to jail and ordered to pay more than $41,000 taken from the chamber and another group.

Leila Ilene Gruber, 87, of Gothenburg died Friday, May 29, 2009, at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte.

A woman charged in connection with the murder of a rural Lexington man made an appearance in Dawson County District Court Tuesday.

A 23-year-old North Platte woman was found guilty of three misdemeanors after she helped a 17-year-old boy escape from state custody and hid him for three months.

Voters in Lexington recently endorsed two parts of an economic development proposal.

Property assessments for 2009 reflect higher farmland sales, and no significant drop in sale prices of homes, Dawson County Assessor John Moore said this week.

Dawson County commissioners don't want to give hikers and bikers a false sense of security around Johnson Lake.