The second session of eight-week classes will begin soon at Mid-Plains Community College campuses. Eight-week classes are a great way for students to complete a number of college credit hours in a relatively short period of time.
Eight-week classes that will begin the week of March 17 include General Botany,Business and Professional Speaking, The Job Application Process, Strategic Planning and Leadership, QuickBooks, Microsoft Office Excel, Advanced Microsoft Office Excel, Advanced Microsoft Office-PowerPoint, Purchasing Logistics, Math for Health Occupations, Basic Technical Communications, and Introduction to Healthcare Informatics. Intermediate MIG and TIG welding classes also begin March 17.
Physical Education classes including Swimming, Weight Training, Training and Conditioning, Aerobics, Golf, Yoga, and Power Sculpting begin the third week of March, as do several Nursing Assistant and Medication Aide courses.
Many Post readers have been perplexed by the fact the police were contacted simply because Biggs and the male subject smelled like marijuana.
The Post spoke to the General Manager of the Rodeo Road Taco John’s location, Michael Torres.
According to Torres, it was true that Biggs and her companion smelled strongly of marijuana.
However, Torres said there is more to the story that was not included in a North Platte Police Department news release.
He says Biggs and the male subject had been coming and going from his restaurant throughout the day and hassling the employees and other customers.
“They were tearing up my lobby, and trying to bum food and cigarettes from my employees,” Torres said.
He said the couple was sitting at two tables, and that the area was a disaster, with wrappers and food scattered everywhere. As the “lobby closer” was attempting to clean and finish his work for the night, Torres said Biggs and the male refused to leave at the request of employees.
Torres said that because he is unable to legally physically remove them from his store, the decision was made to contact police.
A Lincoln woman has been arrested on a Lincoln County Warrant after she entered a local eatery smelling like weed, then returned.
According to Officer Rodney Brown, North Platte Police responded to Taco Johns, 1002 Rodeo Road, at around 9:00 p.m., on Wednesday.
Management reported that two unwanted subjects, who smelled like weed, were in the restaurant.
Officers arrived and made contact with a male subject and Rachel Biggs, 29, of Lincoln.
Management told police the duo had ordered, eaten and then returned. They said the two smelled like they had been smoking marijuana, and officers agreed.
Officers also learned that Biggs had a local warrant for possession of methamphetamine.
Biggs was arrested on the warrant and transported to the Lincoln County Detention Center.
The male subject left the business.
Biggs is being held on 10 percent of $10,000 bond.
(AP) — Fort Kearny State Historical Park and Recreation Area has made arrangements to help people view the spring migration of sandhill cranes.
The visitor center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. starting Saturday and running through April 7. Staff members will be available to answer questions and direct visitors to viewing areas.
One popular viewing location is the hike-bike bridge over the Platte River at the recreation area. The bridge is a third of a mile from the parking area.
A park entry permit is required. Call the park at 308-865-5305 for more information.
Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 25. Wind chill values as low as -8. East northeast wind 5 to 14 mph becoming south southeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight: A slight chance of snow between midnight and 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 14. Southeast wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light south after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Friday: A 20 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a high near 27. Light and variable wind becoming north 13 to 18 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.
Friday Night: A 40 percent chance of snow after midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 3. Wind chill values as low as -12. North northeast wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Saturday: A 50 percent chance of snow. Cloudy and cold, with a high near 7. East northeast wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Saturday Night: A 40 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around -4.
(AP) — A hydrologist says local flooding remains a threat along the Platte River in Nebraska.
David Pearson with the National Weather Service said that tons of ice made it through the Ashland and Louisville (LOO’-is-vihl) areas over the weekend, reducing the possibility of ice jams.
But Pearson says “we’re not totally out of the woods yet,” citing ice upstream of the U.S. Highway 6 bridge near Ashland. This time last year most rivers had little or no ice remaining.
Minor lowland flooding was reported last weekend near North Bend and Schuyler as ice moved down the Loup and Platte rivers.
Pearson also says that because of the deep ground freeze, snowmelt from new storms would just run off into streams, raising the threat of flooding.
(AP) — Up to 30 landowners in southwest Nebraska’s Red Willow County may have deeds that contain inaccurate descriptions that have persisted for more than 90 years.
County commissioners learned Monday that the errors may stem from a 1921 map on which roads, fences and crop lines were not situated on quarter-section and section lines in the northwest corner of the county. Subsequent land buyers measured their land off the roads, giving rise to more inconsistencies.
A 1962 map retraced the 1921 map, so the errors weren’t corrected.
Seven or eight years ago, County Commissioner Vesta Dack and her husband, Dean, bought some pasture and discovered the problem. They paid for surveys and had corrections made to their deed.
(AP) — Nebraska lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday that would use state and federal money to improve programs designed to help elderly people remain in their homes instead of moving to care centers.
Sen. Kate Bolz, of Lincoln, introduced the bill, which would have the state spend $8.5 million to qualify for $36 million in federal funds over the next two fiscal years. Bolz says she expects the cost of the bill to decrease, in part by changing some of the staffing required by the bill.
The money would be used for existing home and community-based services, such as adult day care or respite services.
Legislators voted 31-11 to move the bill to the second round of debate.
(AP) — A student group is pushing for a tobacco-free campus at the University of Nebraska Kearney.
Students will be asked in emails on Wednesday and Thursday if they support the Peer Health Education group’s proposal. Depending on the outcome, it may be presented to the chancellor’s cabinet for consideration.
The team began exploring the issue in 2012 after receiving UNK student opinions from a national health survey, which indicated support for a tobacco-free campus.
Current UNK policy prohibits tobacco use in campus facilities and vehicles, and within 10 feet of entrances. Similar policies are in place on the university’s Omaha and Lincoln campuses. The University of Nebraska Medical Center has been tobacco-free since 2009.
(AP) — A 26-year-old man has been charged with misdemeanor vehicular homicide in the crash death of a woman in the Nebraska Panhandle.
Authorities say Dylan Kaiser was arrested on Monday. The crash occurred about six miles southwest of Hemingford in Box Butte County. Authorities say Kaiser’s passenger, 32-year-old Bobby Elford, died at Box Butte County General Hospital in Alliance.
Other details about the crash haven’t been released.
Box Butte County Jail records say Kaiser has left custody. A public phone listing for him couldn’t be found. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 33. Wind chill values as low as -19. Light southwest wind becoming west 13 to 18 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 26 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around -1. Wind chill values as low as -8. West northwest wind 5 to 11 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 25. Wind chill values as low as -12. East northeast wind 5 to 14 mph becoming south southeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 15. South southeast wind 7 to 13 mph.
Friday: A 30 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25. Light and variable wind becoming north 11 to 16 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph.
The second session of eight-week classes will begin soon at Mid-Plains Community College campuses. Eight-week classes are a great way for students to complete a number of college credit hours in a relatively short period of time.
