Norman Alley: Disturbing the Peace, Tried, $100.00 Fine; Agency and Officer Not Found. Josiah D.

The Brown County Board of Commissioners held their regular meeting on Tuesday, April 19th at the Brown County Courthouse. Commissioners Buddy Small and Dennis Bauer were present; Reagan Wiebelhaus was absent with illness. County Clerk Travis Hobbs, Treasurer Deb VonHeeder, Assessor Terri Van Houten were present as well.

The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) reported several wildfires in various locations throughout the western and central parts of Nebraska on Friday evening, April 22nd. The Ainsworth Fire Department joined area departments in fighting two of those fires that night; one in Rock County and one near Purdum.

Students and staff from Ainsworth Community Schools will be holding its Community Betterment Day on Friday, April 29th. These individuals will be working around Ainsworth, Long Pine and possibly in the Johnstown area.

Brown County pickups, trucks and trailers filled with tires lined up at the KBR Solid Waste Transfer Station for Tire Amnesty Day on Friday and Saturday, April 22nd and 23rd. Brown County Transfer Station was allotted to dispose of up to 400,000 pounds of tires this year.

As shown above on Friday, April 22nd, the Highway 20 construction and widening is well underway. On Friday, flag crews were set up to stop and slow incoming highway traffic on the east side of town while cement was laid to dry in front of Ainsworth Motors. The wait was between five and ten minutes. Driveways to these businesses were still open, and should be open for the rest of Highway 20 property owners as the construction moves along. This cement is being laid to widen the highway on the north side to allow two lane traffic when construction begins on the south west to east lane. Once the highway is widened to both the east and west city limits, A&R Construction will begin reconstructing the south surface of the highway first.