3 September 2010, 2:50 am
World-Herald News Service GRAND ISLAND - Bob Wills and Don Lakey have met every Friday and Saturday for their morning coffee at the McDonald's in North Platte since they first met there in the late 1980s.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 2:42 am
The North Platte Telegraph Moving the Nebraska State Fair from Lincoln to Grand Island means more room and better facilities, but likely decreased attendance. That's according to NSF executive director Joseph McDermott and public relations and marketing director Jana Hafer, who were in North Platte ... Read More »
3 September 2010, 2:16 am
The 2010 Nebraska State Fair — the first at the new Grand Island location — officially opened about 4:30 p.m. Friday.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 2:12 am
GRAND ISLAND - After discussing a preliminary and conservative budget presented by business manager Sharon Placke and Superintendent Bill Mowinkel, the Northwest School board decided to put a little " but not too much " away for a rainy day.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 1:29 am
GRAND ISLAND — The Gasper sisters carried the Scotus Central Catholic girls golf team to a fourth-place finish Thursday in the Grand Island Central Catholic Invitational.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 7:14 pm
People who thought attendance at the Nebraska State Fair would drop when it moved to Grand Island from Lincoln are being proved wrong.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 6:37 pm
With the arrival of the Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island, the Bill Seymour Half-Marathon has adopted a new route that starts from the Super Bowl, hits the half-way mark in the southwest corner of the Stuhr Museum grounds and retraces its steps back to the Super Bowl.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 12:50 pm
People who thought attendance at the Nebraska State Fair would drop when it moved to Grand Island from Lincoln are being proved wrong. Fair officials said Thursday that attendance through Tuesday is higher than it was in 2008.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 6:14 am
Fond memories of calving season may be in store for Nebraskans who visit the Birthing Pavilion at the Nebraska State Fair at Fonner Park in Grand Island.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 12:19 am
OMAHA — Somali Muslim workers at a meatpacking plant in Grand Island were denied prayer time and faced harassment and even termination for asking to pray, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.... Read More »