Andy Raun

15 hours ago | hastingstribune.com | Andy Raun

By Andy Raun/Tribune INSIDE TODAY: 2025 Tribland Outlook edition highlights region's legacy of resourcefulness. HEBRON - In 1869, members of the Union Colony, a religious organization of settlers affiliated with the Disciples of Christ, staked out a place on the prairie for themselves along the Little Blue River in southern Thayer County.

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By Laura Beahm/Tribune,Andy Raun [email protected] INSIDE SATURDAY: The 2025 Tribland Outlook edition will focus on interesting people, places and community improvements across the newspaper's coverage area. Growing up irrigating crops and tending to the cattle on his family's farm in western Hall County, Marty Stange learned a thing or two about solving problems as they arise.

2 days ago | hastingstribune.com | Andy Raun

By Andy Raun [email protected] The Hastings City Council on Monday approved a set of changes to the municipal zoning code updating regulations related to signs, non-conformities and small wind energy systems. Gathered for their second regular June meeting at the Hastings Municipal Airport Terminal, council members voted 7-0 to approve the zoning code changes as laid out in proposed Ordinance No. 4802.

2 days ago | hastingstribune.com | Andy Raun

HEBRON - Thanks to the vision and volunteerism of Hebron residents, a public problem has been turned into a brand-new community asset in the heart of downtown. This early summer, local volunteers are finishing up work on Backyard Bricks, a large, patio-like gathering space on the west side of the city offices on Lincoln Avenue. The space is named as an homage to the street that runs past the front of the space, which was paved in brick 100 years ago in 1925.

3 days ago | hastingstribune.com | Andy Raun

MINDEN - When the resurrected Minden Opera House threw open its doors to fanfare on Memorial Day Weekend 2000, visions of Big Band events, top-name concerts, elaborate wedding receptions, packed community theater shows and silver-screen movie nights danced in the heads of project leaders and patrons alike. Over the intervening 25 years, all those events and more have come to pass, providing life-changing experiences and beautiful memories for Minden area residents and visitors from far and wide.