North Platte Bulletin

4 days ago | northplattebulletin.com | George Lauby

Amazon, one of the world’s most successful companies, is building a new distribution center in the city’s Twin Rivers Industrial Park on the south edge of North Platte. The center is located along Business Park Drive, just a couple blocks north of E. State Farm Road. Business Park Drive one of a small handful of new streets in the business and industrial park. The park is mostly comprised of warehouses. FedEx, Coors Distributing, Frito Lay and K&M Tirealso have distribution centers in that area.

4 days ago | northplattebulletin.com | George Lauby

The curtain will go up at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 6 for a performance of the youth theatre production, Shrek, Jr. at the Fox Theater. There is no charge to attend. Rehearsals are June 2-5 for the production, which will be presented by students in grades 5-12, as part of the youth summer camp at the North Platte Community Playhouse. Free-will donations are suggested. Youth attending the grades K-4 summer camp will present their show at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 13 under the same terms.

5 days ago | northplattebulletin.com | Ruth Nicolaus

When Jim Gragg takes vacation, he goes to work, and loves every minute of it. For the past 50 years, the Tryon resident has spent four days in June in North Platte, volunteering at the Buffalo Bill Rodeo. And even though it’s work, he loves it. Since 1974, Gragg has untied calves after every tie-down roping run at the rodeo. He was a high school sophomore when he began helping, and he’s never missed an evening performance nor Wednesday morning slack.

1 week ago | northplattebulletin.com | George Lauby

David Huebner of North Platte, a former border patrol officer turned cattle and hay producer, announced Friday that he is running for Nebraska’s 3rd district seat in Congress. He will challenge incumbent Rep. Adrian Smith in the 2026 Republican primary. Huebner made the announcement at the Einstein’s Brothers bagel restaurant at the North Platte Regional Airport with his wife Amanda and three children at his side. The couple own the bagel restaurant. More than 40 supporters attended.

1 week ago | northplattebulletin.com | George Lauby

Ideas ranged from recruiting with tax increment financing to simply picking up trash instead of walking past it at a town hall discussion Thursday on ways to improve the north side of town. About 30 people, plus organizers and news reporters, attended the meeting on the back patio of the Mr. Appliance building at the intersection of Rodeo and Jeffers/U.S. Highway 83.