April, 2009
Henningsen seeks to buy DCPD building
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 1:04 am
By Larry Peirce
Banner-Press Editor
It's not every day that office properties in New York, Omaha and David City get mentioned in the same sentence or context.But that was the case Monday night when it was disclosed that Henningsen Foods had made an offer to purchase the David City Police Department building at 475 N. Third Street.
The proposal as part of a company office change that includes moving its New York operations to Omaha, and some of its Omaha management to David City.
KV Vet Supply helps in horse rescue
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 12:30 am
When news broke of the dire situation at the 3-Strikes Mustang Ranch in Bridgeport, on April 21, few employees at KV Vet Supply in David City realized how close to home the story from 370 miles away would hit.
But Dr. Richard Porter DVM, of KV Vet Supply immediately recognized the ranch owner as the man who had taken one of his horses. "I was worried sick for my Quarter Horse gelding Best Hobby Yet," Porter said "The reports from the ranch were not good."
And there was plenty of bad news to make him worry. Initial reports from the mustang rescue ranch, indicated more than 60 horses dead and at least 100 in critical condition. Morrill County sheriff's deputies had discovered the horses, living in crowded, filthy pens without access to proper food or fresh water.
Tiger girls third, Huskies seventh at Twin River
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 7:07 pm
<!--[if gte mso 9]>SHS boys edge East Butler at Twin River
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 7:04 pm
<!--[if gte mso 9]>David iIty boys track team fourth at Centennial
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 6:59 pm
<!--[if gte mso 9]>AHS girls use depth to place fourth at Schuyler
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 6:37 pm
<!--[if gte mso 9]>DC man, woman arrested on drug charges
Friday, April 24, 2009 - 2:26 pm
A man and a woman were arrested at their David City home on Thursday, April 23, on warrants charging them with drug dealing and felony child abuse.
Thomas A. Skinner, 49, and Tracy L. Patocka, 29, were arrested at 209 W. D St at about 4:45 p.m. by the David City Police Department and the Rural Apprehension Program drug task force. RAP is a 10-county drug task force which includes the DCPD and Butler County Sheriff’s Office.
ReTree Nebraska's Nine for 2009 promotes species diversity
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 3:17 pm
LINCOLN -- Forestry experts agree that species diversity is a hallmark of healthy rural and urban forests."Good species diversity minimizes the chances of a single insect or disease pest destroying an area's entire forest resource," said Jessica Kelling, ReTree Nebraska coordinator. "This is a lesson we learned the hard way with dutch elm disease and pine wilt. Given the abundance of ash across Nebraska, the arrival of emerald ash borer will also have significant impacts on our state's tree resources."
Butler County officials plan to hold Peterson
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 1:37 am
By Art Hovey
Lee Enterprises
A Seward County man implicated in the 2007 death of his infant daughter was not eligible for release from custody on Tuesday after all.
Butler County Attorney Julie Reiter said officials there are prepared to move 24-year-old Lucas Peterson from Lincoln to the David City jail while they pursue an appeal filed Friday with the Nebraska Court of Appeals."