Organizers of Nebraska City's 2011 AppleJack Festival are calling the event a sucess despite overcast skies on Saturday and persistent sprinkles and mist on Sunday.
Moving the Thomas D. Thomas carnival from First Corso near the Middle School to Central Avenue east of Sixth Street received positive feedback.
Rebecca Turner of NCTC said it provided a continuation of activity following the parade on Saturday and local businesses reported that crowds lingered longer.
The Iowa Department of Transportation led a media tour at the intersection of Interstate 29 and Highway 2 where floodings from the Missouri River is receding after 70 days.
A breech of the federal flood levee June 30 sent 70,000 cubic feet per second into the lowland near Percival, Iowa. It soon spread over Highway 2 and surrounded sandbagged buildings at the Sapp Brothers Truck Stop.
The flood created two new channels, one flowing west of this site and another crossing under the interstate at the intersection.
Flooding continues as of Sept. 15. The river at Nebraska City would typically flow at 42,000 cfs in September, but is flowing at 108,000 cfs.
The Kregel Windmill Factory Museum erected a restored Eli windmill across the street from the museum Sept. 12 at the city hall parking lot.
Loren Lockman of Double L Windmills from Murdock guided the wheelhouse in place.
John Crook calls his dog out of a flash flood at the low water crossing near Roads 70 and R in Otoe County on July 7, 2011.
Rain up of 2 to four inches caused about five feet of water to flow over the road.
A thunderstorm moving across Otoe County Aug. 6 downed power poles over a two mile area north of Unadilla.
The poles were down on Road 16 from roads B and E, with roads closed where wires were crossing.
Bill Timblin, who farms east of 16 Road, said wind has damaged the poles in previous years as well.
In Donna Whitesel’s youth she twice performed in the Russian ballet Sleeping Beauty and ended her vocation as a dance teacher and owner of DanceWorks this summer with the classic fairy tale.
“It was a bittersweet experience to come round circle,” the former Cechetti ballerina said at a reception Thursday.
“I loved to watch my girls dance what I did from back in the day when I could get on my toes,” she said.
Photographs taken of construction at Nebraska City High School beginning July 9, 2009.
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Carl Bergman inspires his audience to clap with fragile hands or softly tap a toe. Sometimes they even break a smile.
It is nothing like the roar of the crowd the aspiring jazz musician visioned while voluntarily setting hour after hour of his teen years aside to practice his clarinet.
It's a far cry from his hopes training under a former principal musician of the New York Philharmonic and somewhat alien to the young man's ambition to be the best.
His wife Sue takes the hand of someone in the audience and embraces another.
She knows many of them by name and greets them all with her contagious smile.
Some who don't speak because of Alzheimer's suddenly sing, others listen motionless until they see Sue approach.
“I remember that song,” they say, and there's a connection between musician and audience that transcends a lifetime.
At the age of 76, Bergman knows he is finally at the height of his musical career.
The First United Methodist Church choir premiered a choir anthem Sunday that had been composed specially for the church's consecration service for its new construction May 22.
Stephanie Huffman Stanek contacted R. Kevin Boesiger, a composer living in Beatrice, about a song that would incorporate the church's “Arise and Build” theme and the campaign slogan of “together we share and grow.”
“We felt that having a choral piece composed specifically for the chancel choir was a fantastic way to commemorate the occasion. “Kevin did an amazing job of incorporating the themes. He also managed to include two hymn quotes within the song that are appropriate to the theme,” Stanek said.
The construction includes a new Otoe County food pantry facility, elevator and upstairs classrooms.
The 45 members of the Nebraska City based 192nd Military Police Detachment of the U.S. Army returned home from a year long deployment to Iraq on the morning of May 7 to a packed Nebraska City High School.
A group of travellers from Peru, the country, bring some culture to Peru, the town.
Fresh from temperatures near 70 degrees a week ago, Thursday's snowstorm reminded drivers of winter's realities.
Shortly after snow began to accumulate on Highway 2 at 1 p.m., Otoe County deputies found a pickup truck that had slid off the road and plunged into a ravine. They made contact with two occupants trapped inside and called for an ambulance.
