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The Johnstown Fire Department was called to a grass fire northeast of Johnstown on Tuesday afternoon, June 25th. Duane Sedlacek was baling hay in a corner of a center pivot when a bearing on the baler overheated and started a small grass fire. The Johnstown Fire Department responded quickly and put out the small blaze. Not much damage to the grassland land and no bales were burned.

Emergency personnel responded to a two-vehicle accident west of Ainsworth on Monday, June 29th. Jaci Swanson was west bound on Highway 20 and slowing to make a left turn onto a county road as Wayne Paulson driving an Ainsworth Ready Mix truck started to pass. Swanson was pulling a baler and Paulson was unable to see the pickup’s blinker. Paulson swerved into the south ditch, striking the front end of the Swanson pickup. Neither drive was injured. Responding to the accident were the Brown County Sheriff’s Department, Ainsworth Fire Department and Brown County Ambulance.

The Ainsworth City Council met Monday, June 29th in emergency session to discuss a funding application for broad band internet that was due by July 2nd.