LINCOLN, Neb. – Tyler Nelson has been selected as the park superintendent for Lake McConaughy and Lake Ogallala state recreation areas (SRA).

Nelson was most recently the assistant superintendent at Lake McConaughy and Lake Ogallala, where he served since 2014. Prior to that appointment, he was the assistant superintendent at Two Rivers SRA in Douglas County.

Nelson takes over management of the park areas from Colby Johnson, who recently was appointed as the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s regional park superintendent of the Southern Panhandle Region.

“Tyler brings a wealth of knowledge to the Parks Division and will be an excellent asset to the team at Lake McConaughy,” Johnson said.

For more information on Nebraska’s state park areas, visit outdoornebraska.gov/parks/.

Posted 8.11.17

• Todd Eugene Hlavaty, 61, North Platte and Julie Marie Mroczek, 55, North Platte

 

• Eric Joseph Kackmeister, 28, North Platte and Sisi Chen, 31, North Platte

 

• Arye Joseph Barmore, 22, Sutherland and Amanda Lee Stoner, 22, Sutherland

 

• Joshua Ryan Eskew, 27, Hershey and Leslie Nichole Leon, 26, North Platte

 

• Joseph Trent Pafford, 22, North Platte and Kathleen Marie Utter, 27, North Platte

 

• Kyle Duane Clough, 28, Wallace and Katelynn Marie Hild, 24, Wallace

 

• Justin Kean Snyder, 42, North Platte and Jessica Renee Lakey, 33, North Platte

 

• Willie Earl Purvis III, 38, North Platte and Amanda Rose Grandel, 30, North Platte

 

• Tanner Wade McIntosh, 28, North Platte and Ashley Ann Golden, 26, North Platte

 

• Jesse Chapman Shirley, 35, North Platte and Alejandra Nicole Reyna, 20, North Platte

 

• William Riley Merritt, 31, North Platte and Tiffany Kay Dimmitt, 24, North Platte

 

• Randall Scott Laubscher, 45, North Platte and Erin Evangeline Stark, 46, North Platte

 

• Joseph Alan Baker, 37, Hutchinson, KS and Danielle Renee Forsythe, 33, Maywood NE

 

• Michael Alfred Robb, 61, North Platte and Rochelle Lynn Beman, 48, North Platte

 

• Benjamin Michael Brezenski, 28, North Platte and Cathy Ann Vaughan, 21, North Platte

 

• Daryl Kevin Higginbotham,63, North Platte and Cynthia Irene Shupe, 61, North Platte

LINCOLN, Neb. – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will consider a staff recommendation to authorize one auction and one lottery permit for the 2018 bighorn sheep season when it meets Aug. 17 in North Platte.

The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. at the West Central Research and Extension Center, 402 W. State Farm Road.

Also on the agenda are staff recommendations to:

— amend fisheries aquaculture regulations regarding the application for importation of aquatic organisms and requirements related to the discovery of pathogens;

— approve an increase in the cash change fund at the Rock Creek State Fish Hatchery and to establish a cash change fund at the Valentine State Fish Hatchery;

— approve a permanent easement request from the Loup River Public Power District to bury an overhead power line on Wilkinson Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Platte County;

— approve a land trade in Sioux County with the state’s Board of Educational Lands and Funds for 15 acres adjacent to Gilbert-Baker WMA in exchange for a 27-acre tract;

— approve acquisition of 747.81 acres in Banner County adjacent to William’s Gap WMA;

— approve hunting seasons in specific state parks and state historical parks; and

— approve a resolution supporting the recommendation of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Sustaining America’s Diverse Fish and Wildlife Resources and the Alliance for America’s Fish and Wildlife Campaign.

The Commission also will hear public testimony regarding the Lake McConaughy/Lake Ogallala Master Plan. It will hear a staff update on the Berggren Plan for Pheasants/Open Fields and Waters Program.

In addition, staff will give presentations on the Conservation Environmental Review Tool and the Nebraska Natural Legacy Project’s Loess Canyon Biologically Unique Landscape.

A complete agenda is available at outdoornebraska.gov/commissioners/.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a passenger jet has landed safely in western Nebraska after losing power in one of its two engines on a flight to South Dakota.

Aerodynamics Inc. says Flight 217 carrying 46 passengers and three crew members set down at Western Nebraska Regional Airport in Scottsbluff around 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, 70 minutes after its Denver takeoff. The Embraer 145 aircraft was headed for Pierre and then Watertown, South Dakota.

Aerodynamics Chief Operating Officer Mickey Bowman said Thursday that all the passengers used ground transportation to continue their journeys. He says the plane remains at the Scottsbluff airport for repairs.

Aerodynamics is based in Kennesaw, Georgia. Bowman says the flight was operating under an affiliation with Great Lakes Airlines.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska residents are sharing decades-old stories about the last time a total solar eclipse was visible from the state, as another one approaches.

Dennis Riesselman was 12 and living in Butte, Nebraska, when the eclipse took place on June 30, 1954. He says his mother woke him at dawn that day and drove them to a hilltop to see the moon cover the sun.

That day, the newspaper predicted Omaha would see a “black sunrise” with 96 percent of the sun obscured. But clouds gave Omaha residents an underwhelming view.

Areas in the far north region of Nebraska, like Butte, saw the total eclipse.

Riesselman is now 75. He says he’ll head south from his Omaha home to watch the Aug. 21 eclipse.

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