Thurston Co. board settling on .41 levy for 2010-11 budget

Barring any last-minute surprises, the Thurston County board of supervisers are set to approve a 2010-11 budget that will see its levy set at .41 with a total personal and property tax request of $1.979 million that is expected to result in a carry-over of about $178,700 to the following year’s budget.

Pender will field first youth tackle football team this fall

Pender will be fielding a youth tackle football team comprised of players in grades 4-6 as part of a northeast Nebraska league this fall. Kid Dragon Football is scheduled to play its first game of the season at Winnebago on Sunday, Sept. 12, and the team’s first home game will be against Allen on Sept. 19.

Redline Aviation not 'fly by night' operation as it expands

It zips and zooms. It dives, rises and banks like a fighter jet bringing incendiaries to a helpless target. And after it’s done, it lands smoothly at the Pender airport. But its payload is the farthest thing from destructive. It’s a state-of-the-art crop duster armed with a turbo prop and the latest GPS computer hardware fit to bring fields of soybeans, corn and wheat the highest possible yields at harvest.

Pender Child Care Center, Pender school enter into lease agreement

The Pender school board approved a lease agreement with Andrea Hansen of Pender at Monday’s regular August meeting that will allow her to operate a new business called Pender Child Care Center within the school building beginning with the 2010-11 school year.

Did 1999 homicide set a precedent for rape case?

As Pender’s place on or off the Omaha Indian Reservation is called into question again next month ahead of the sexual assault trial of Julian Rivera, a brief history lesson might be in order. For this one, we don’t have to travel back to the 1800s to pore over treaties and acts of Congress. Some newspaper clippings from a decade ago will suffice.