Todd von Kampen

2 days ago | starherald.com | Todd von Kampen

State senators Friday gave 43-0 first-round approval to a bill affecting insurance for real estate transferred after its owner’s death. Legislative Bill 422, sponsored by Sen. Tanya Storer of Whitman, advanced as part of a “consent calendar” agenda designed to allow for quick floor action on noncontroversial bills. Storer’s measure adjusts coverage periods for property insurance after the death of a property owner who filed a “transfer of death deed” transferring title to a designated new owner.

3 days ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

State senators Friday gave 43-0 first-round approval to a bill affecting insurance for real estate transferred after its owner’s death. Legislative Bill 422, sponsored by Sen. Tanya Storer of Whitman, advanced as part of a “consent calendar” agenda designed to allow for quick floor action on noncontroversial bills. Storer’s measure adjusts coverage periods for property insurance after the death of a property owner who filed a “transfer of death deed” transferring title to a designated new owner.

6 days ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

The writers of the musical about North Platte’s World War II Canteen will take their next hoped-for step to Broadway at a Tennessee high school. Students at Summit High School in Spring Hill, south of Nashville, will stage a revised version of “The North Platte Canteen: A Musical Miracle” Nov. 14-16, co-authors Johnny Rodgers and Sue Fabisch Errico said Wednesday.

6 days ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

North Platte city crews are “getting pretty aggressive” about enforcing an ordinance on how low trees can hang over city rights-of-way, City Administrator Layne Groseth said. He reviewed City Hall’s plans to start pruning trees identified as needing trimming on May 19 as an information-only item at the end of Tuesday’s City Council meeting. An April 9 public notice says trees can’t hang less than 16 feet over streets or 8 feet over sidewalks under the ordinance.

1 week ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

The victory over Germany finds the average American soldier curiously unexcited. …It has been a long and bloody trail — this 800-mile march from the beaches of Normandy in less than 11 months. … They are physically and emotionally tired. …And predominantly they are talking over one thing:“Will I be sent to the Pacific?”— The Associated Press, printed in Telegraph, May 8, 1945***Victory in Europe Day, 80 years ago this day, didn’t set off exuberant celebrations in North Platte.