Mid-Plains Community College announces President’s List

The following students qualified for the President’s List at Mid-Plains Community College during the 2018 Fall Term. To make the list, each student had to complete 12 or more applicable credit hours in college-level courses and maintain a grade point average (GPA) of 3.9 or greater on a 4.0 scale.

Nebraska

Anselmo – Luke Christen

Brady – Madison Christophersen, Colton Lovitt, Jessica Most, Daniel Wardyn

Cambridge – Cole Nickerson

Cozad – Ashley Linke, Steven Walker

Culbertson – Brittany Williams

Curtis – Colleen Mortensen

Gothenburg – Keisha Blake, Dillon Higgins, Dillon Wilkerson

Grant – Kaden Kammerer

Holdrege – Tatiana Young

Imperial – Mikaela O’Brien

Indianola – Rhonda Tryon, Jack Vogel

Kearney – Ronald Foutch

Lewellen – Ramona Steward, Shaun Swoboda

Lexington – Hana Brock, Bianca Gomez, Cesar Venegas-Villezcas

Louisville – Nicholas Snodgrass

Maxwell – Natalie Miller

McCook – David Brewster, Mary Kain, Brittanie Nolan, Emmerie Roth, Elise Stevens, Sydney Thompson, William Watts

North Platte – Larry Allen, Emily Bagley, Alyssa Bergeron, Larissa Berol, Jack Carlson, Kayla Douglas, Troy Dye, Danny Fourtner, Lucas Friedrich, Jonathan Hastings, Alexandria Hatch, Matthew Haynes, Dawson Heinzen, Ashley Husemoller, Haley Jackson, Gary Koch, Haiden Kreber, Rebecca Lindley, Gabrielle Menghini, Jayden Miles, Brian Mixer, Angel Murphy, Mercedes Nolda, Lindsi Orr, Kaitlyn Ostrander, Nathan Ostrander, Sarah Phares, Mirabella Pigati, Vanessa Rodriguez-Sanchez, Bailey Roeder, Jessica Slattery, Keifer Smith, Nathan Snider, Ryan Sorenson, Jonathan Spradlin, Patricia Tofilau, Jade Vak

Ogallala – Justine Gall

Ord – Ashley Carson

Paxton – Ashley Lugar, Justin Neilsen

Stapleton – Dylan DiGiovanni

Sutherland – Angela Evans, Scott Taylor, Alyssa Weber

Tryon – Caleb Goosey

Venango – Valerie Perez

Wauneta – Zachary Thompson, Roseanna Vapenik

California

Carlsbad – Michael Trunfio

Pleasant Hill – Liliana Belton

Colorado

Colorado Springs – Makenna Bodette

Fleming – Shaylee Johnson

Granby – Kiera Barr

Nucla – Carlie Wytulka

Wheat Ridge – Emily Anderson, Aurora Storrer

Iowa

Hubbard – Ricks Polk

Richmond – Candice Biltz

Oregon

Bend – Nickolas Gylling, Travis Martin

Virginia

Fort Belvoir – Preston Parry

Washington

Seattle – Valerie Schaeffer

Spokane Valley – Travis Oliver

Wyoming

Laramie – Luke James

AUSTRALIA

Willetton, Western Australia – Emma McLean

CANADA

Summerville, New Brunswick – Shaun Hickey

MOZAMBIQUE

Maputo – Nelo Nducuia

SPAIN

Badalona, Barcelona – Laura Mata Garcia

Mid-Plains Community College releases Dean’s List

The following students qualified for the Dean’s List during the 2018 Fall Term at Mid-Plains Community College. To be eligible, they had to complete 12 or more applicable credit hours of college-level courses and maintain an overall grade point average (GPA) of 3.5 – 3.89 on a 4.0 scale.

Nebraska

Arcadia – Clay Bauer

Arthur – MacKenna Turner

Big Springs – Caprice Brown

Blair – Mark Starks

Brady – Jared Most, Jerry Mull

Broken Bow – Ina Bradley, Laurissa Epley

Callaway – Grady Lashley, Jessie Parshley

Cambridge – Aubri Ross, Kristian Roth

Cozad – Karleigh Kleinknecht

Culbertson – Beth Hoyt, Emma Matson, Courtney Searcey, Matthew Searcey

Curtis – Rylie Brown, Payton Kahler

Eddyville – Zachery Jones

Enders – Cydney Spady

Gering – Kaylee Bohnsack

Gothenburg – Tanis Sack, Olivia Williams

Grand Island – Vann Stevenson

Grant – Logan Cunningham, Whitney Spencer

Hastings – Ty Neill

Hershey – William Schillinger, Konner Sonneman

Imperial – Diana Benitez Aguilar, Taylin McNair, Rogelio Vargas

Indianola – Drew Hofman, Alec May, Wyatt McConville, Kayela Parker, Patrick Sughroue, Bethany Vogel

Lexington – Katy Esquivel Cruz

Loomis – Ethan McKenna

Maxwell – Emily Breinig, Jeremy Ochsner

McCook – Bradley Ackermann, Jaden Bryant, Zachary Burkey, Taye Collicott, Kyle Geisler, Easton Gillen, Allison Johnson, Steven Keenportz, Halie Lindquist, Nicholas Macfee, Alyson Marin, Trevor Oberg, Mary Osborne, Casey Quagliano, Madison Riemenschneider, Ian Shepherd, Danielle Slaby, Brandon Smith, Ethan Wilcox

Memphis – Cody Magness

North Platte – Britni Bandy, Rylee Brott, Kayla Bush, Nicholas Bussard, Jamon Davis, Evan DeKok, Taitiana Ditch, Jed Dizmang, Nicholas Doucet, Kelsey Epp, Tyler Floro, Amanda Hanson, Samuel Hergenrader, Makenzi Humphrey, Megan Johnson, Madison Kleewein, Jennifer Lantis, Dasia Lively, Elijah Malsbury, J’Naea Matlock, Kathleen McIntyre, Megan Morash, Brooke Orr, Jade Osborn, Dalton Prokop, Shawn Simpson, Amanda Smith, Seth Smith, Kathryn Smitherman, Samantha Sonneman, Lyndell St. Clair, Brandon Tolle, Eric Travis, Gary White, Ryan White, Kade Wroot

Ogallala – John Diaz, Ethan LeGrande

Omaha – Tanner Cissell, Ashley Ellingson, Connor McGonigal

Paxton – William Babbitt
Stapleton – Brady Baumgartner, Kaylie Beierman, Ashley Houser, John Main

Sutherland – Alexandra Baker, Shelly Compton, Ashley Hanneman

Thedford – Danya Mintle, Seth Pearson

Valentine – Luke Hockenbary, Michelle Witt Moore

Wallace – Austin Hanson, Abbey Rohde

Walton – Austin Jensen

Colorado

Aurora – Hannah Jensen

Breckenridge – Graham Gaspard

Brighton – Makayla Harris

Delta – KC Carlson

Fleming – Bailey Chintala

Greeley – Levi Dart, Hannah Emerson, Isaac Vargas

Lakewood – Chanel Siebenthal

Littleton – Ashlynn Krueger

Windsor – Kali Kelley

Wray – Kedric Tufton

Florida

New Port Richey – Katie Cox

Hawaii

Makawao – Maysen Medeiros

Iowa

Council Bluffs – Alea Binkly

Kansas

Belvue – Reed Murray

Effingham – Jade Hollands

North Carolina

Charlotte – Ngoye Bobmanuel

New York

Henrietta – Kailee White

South Dakota

Aberdeen – Karley Martin

Texas

Houston – Da’May Jones

League City – Donta Smith

Wyoming

Dayton – Angel Richards

CANADA

Richmond, British Columbia – Kayla Harrison

Victoria, British Columbia – Emily Charchuk

Brampton, Ontario – Samuel Lebel

Gatineau, Quebec – Anthony Kingsbury

FINLAND

Helsinki – Iftin Mao

GERMANY

Hamburg – Lena Goerke

ITALY

Rome – Tommaso Mostarda

LATVIA

Valmiera – Edgars Kaufmanis

NIGERIA

Akoka – Chidi Okwarabizie

SPAIN

Reus – Anna Sanjuan

UKRAINE

Kiev – Ilya Tyrtyshnik

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Tourism Office has launched its first campaign of 2019 by promoting the hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes that migrate to the Platte River Valley, with the hope of expanding on tourism success they saw after promoting the event last year.

The print and television ads began running Monday, The Lincoln Journal Star reported . The crane ads note that while many people view Nebraska as a place to fly over and not a place to visit, more than half a million cranes come to the state every March.

The ads will run until March in cities in Colorado, South Dakota and Kansas. Tourism office staff and animal experts will also travel to Denver this week to promote the cranes.

Tourism Commission Executive Director John Ricks said the migration draws tourists from around the world.

“It’s truly one of the most outstanding migrations in the world,” he said.

The state first promoted the event to out-of-state markets last year, and saw increases to traffic to the tourism website and lodging tax that was collected, Ricks said.

The ads are part of the state’s new tourism campaign , “Nebraska. Honestly, it’s not for everyone,” which will launch fully in April.

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A woman accused of trying to conceal a man’s slaying in Dawson County has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

Dawson County District Court records say 36-year-old Melissa Callahan had pleaded not guilty to a felony accessory charge in the October 2016 slaying of Jose Hernandez by Jose Regalado-Mendez. Authorities say she helped move the body and conceal the slaying. Hernandez’s remains were found weeks later near a farmhouse north of Lexington.

The records say Callahan, of Lexington, pleaded guilty Friday to attempted tampering with physical evidence — a misdemeanor. Her sentencing is scheduled for March 4.

Regalado-Mendez was sentenced Jan. 7 to 40 to 45 years in prison.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska senator has introduced a bill that would require state lawmakers to witness executions and prohibit prison officials from blocking witnesses’ view, as they did briefly while carrying one out last year.

Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks, of Lincoln, proposed legislation Monday that would require two lawmakers appointed by the Legislature’s Executive Board to be present during the execution.

The measure would bar prison officials from doing anything to “obstruct, limit, shield or otherwise impede” the view of official state witnesses.

Prison officials faced criticism during last year’s execution of Carey Dean Moore when they lowered a blind over viewing windows for reporters and witnesses. The blind remained down for 14 minutes after the last of four lethal injection drugs was administered, then was raised again for 40 seconds.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska veterans are looking forward to moving into the new Central Nebraska Veterans Home in Kearney this week.

Vans of veterans will begin arriving at the new facility in Kearney on Wednesday morning, and Gov. Pete Ricketts will be on hand to greet them.

The veterans are moving 34 miles west (55 kilometers) from the old facility in Grand Island to Kearney.

Residents’ families and volunteers will help with the move, but the initial move will be closed to the public.

The new, $89 million campus has six neighborhoods of sorts, which each feature three homes that can accommodate 12 to 15 veterans in private rooms.

SIDNEY, Neb. (AP) — A western Nebraska nursing home under state control because of financial problems will be closed.

The Sidney Sun-Telegraph reports that the staff members and 34 residents at Sidney Care and Rehabilitation Center were told last week of the state’s decision. It was one of 21 placed in receivership last March , to be managed by Klaasmeyer & Associates while a plan for the homes’ futures was prepared. The homes’ owner, Cottonwood Healthcare, also known as Skyline, notified the state about its financial crisis, so the state took action.

Ken Klaasmeyer says the Sidney home has been unable to become financially viable.