Todd von Kampen

North Platte

Special Projects Reporter at North Platte Telegraph

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Tornado in southwestern Nebraska yields awesome profile

1 week ago | omaha.com | Todd von Kampen

A nearly perfectly formed tornado wowed storm spotters east of Dickens, Nebraska, but it proved more interested in posing than destroying. The National Weather Service on Tuesday assigned an EF-2 rating to the twister after studying scattered signs of damage in its path about 25 miles southwest of North Platte.
Original North Platte Holiday Inn, now Ramada, proposed for apartments

1 week ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

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Original North Platte Holiday Inn, now Ramada, proposed for apartments

1 week ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

Sixty years of offering overnight shelter to Interstate 80 travelers would come to an end at North Platte’s original Holiday Inn building under a plan to convert most of it into apartments. The Planning Commission Monday will hold a public hearing before deciding whether to bless a conditional use permit to transform the approximately 123-room Ramada by Wyndham motel, also the city’s first TIF project when renovated in 1998.
At NLD Antique Car Show, old and new parts can share chassis

1 week ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

It’s a dilemma many a classic-car owner faces: When you start restoring your pride and joy, how far do you go in using more modern parts instead? Visitors to Friday’s Nebraskaland Days Antique Car Show could find a variety of answers to that question as they walked through Memorial Park. Cars and trucks sporting about every color imaginable lined every stretch of the park’s internal roads save one.
Port of the Plains will mull site for inland port activities at Lee Bird Field

1 week ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

Members of the Hershey rail park’s inland port authority board plan more discussions Monday on which part of the North Platte Regional Airport to include within its extended purview. The Nebraska International Port of the Plains board also will welcome its first new board member since its 2023 founding during the 2 p.m. meeting at their headquarters on U.S. Highway 30 on Hershey’s east edge.
Frontier Revue’s 60-year history is older than its North Platte name

1 week ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

It’s a diamond anniversary year for Nebraskaland Days’ Frontier Revue — though not under that name. The statewide celebration’s musical tribute to Nebraska’s Old West heritage includes shows at 2 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday through Tuesday at North Platte’s Fox Theatre, 307 E. Fifth St. Tickets are $8 at the door.
How can we help? Be present, NLD Prayer Breakfast guest says

1 week ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

Sometimes the best way to help someone is to just be there, educator and North Platte native Ron Titus says. The Oklahoma City-based founder and CEO of Wayfinder Education talked about Christians’ calling to be “ambassadors of unity” during his keynote talk at Thursday morning’s Nebraskaland Days Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast. Thursday’s edition was the 57th held in North Platte since its founding in 1964.
Sen. Jacobson reveals cancer battle, says it won't derail Unicam re-election bid

1 week ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

State Sen. Mike Jacobson of North Platte said Wednesday that he’s been fighting skin cancer that spread to his right lung for the past 2½ years. Jacobson, who announced last week he’ll seek re-election to his District 42 seat, has been hospitalized this week at Great Plains Health after a fall at home related to his immunotherapy treatment.
Monday tornado yields awesome profile in southwestern Nebraska

1 week ago | journalstar.com | Todd von Kampen

A nearly perfectly-formed tornado wowed storm spotters east of Dickens on Monday evening, but it proved more interested in posing than destroying. The National Weather Service Tuesday assigned an EF-2 rating to the twister after studying scattered signs of damage in its path about 25 miles southwest of North Platte. Severe thunderstorms later Monday evening dropped 1.05 inches of rain in an hour on North Platte, finally pushing the city’s 2025 precipitation past the 10-inch mark.
City Council’s pre-NLD agenda half business, half accolades

1 week ago | nptelegraph.com | Todd von Kampen

Half of Tuesday’s pre-Nebraskaland Days meeting of the North Platte City Council was given over to various “awards, accolades and presentations.”Mayor Brandon Kelliher began the 20-minute meeting by recognizing Steven Heinzle of North Platte as MENTOR Nebraska’s 2025 Mentor of the Year. Heinzle began taking young people under his wing 25 years ago through Community Connections.