Andy Raun

1 week ago | hastingstribune.com | Amy Roh |Andy Raun

By Amy Roh/Tribune,Andy Raun [email protected] Two key Hastings Utilities employees with a combined 84 years of service to the organization will be retiring within the next two weeks or so. At the April 10 meeting of the city's Utility Advisory Board, Brandan Lubken, HU director of underground operations, paid tribute to Ed Fleharty, the underground construction supervisor; and Bob Helton, natural gas technical coordinator.

1 week ago | hastingstribune.com | Andy Raun

By Andy Raun [email protected] Two key Hastings Utilities employees with a combined 84 years of service to the organization will be retiring within the next two weeks or so. At the April 10 meeting of the city's Utility Advisory Board, Brandan Lubken, HU director of underground operations, paid tribute to Ed Fleharty, the underground construction supervisor; and Bob Helton, natural gas technical coordinator.

1 week ago | hastingstribune.com | Andy Raun

Hastings Utilities employees put forth an all-hands-on-deck effort to help restore power to thousands of residents during and after the March 19 blizzard. Collectively, 20 employees in HU's electrical operations unit - all but one, who happened to be on medical leave - logged more than 400 hours of work time during the workday on that wind-blown Wednesday.

1 week ago | hastingstribune.com | Laura Beahm |Andy Raun

By Laura Beahm/Tribune,Andy Raun [email protected] City Development Services Director Chad Bunger said goodbye on Tuesday to the Hastings Planning Commission as he attended his last meeting of the group. Bunger said he submitted his resignation about two weeks ago in order to accept a position with Freese and Nichols Inc., a private-sector engineering and planning firm in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His last day with the city of Hastings will be May 2.

1 week ago | hastingstribune.com | Andy Raun

By Andy Raun [email protected] A Hastings businessman and real estate developer will have assistance from the Community Redevelopment Authority in constructing a new commercial building on an underutilized downtown street corner. Gathered Monday for their first regular April meeting at the Hastings Municipal Airport Terminal, Hastings City Council members voted 7-1 to approve a modification to the redevelopment plan for the city's Redevelopment Area No. 1.