Phelps County News

The Holdrege FFA will be presenting a little kid farm safety camp on Wednesday, September 23 at the Phelps County Ag Center in Holdrege.

School officials vow to be good stewards of the tax dollars that will be used to build two new elementary schools and renovate other schools.

HOLDREGE, Neb.) -- The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District's board of directors approved an allocation and schedule at Tuesday's monthly board meeting that provides for increased deliveries during the 2010 irrigation season.

What is a compressor station? The role of the compressor station is to compress the natural gas, increasing the pressure, and providing the energy to move the natural gas through the pipeline.

Authorities are investigating the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a car north of Holdrege and killed over the weekend.

Authorities are investigating the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a car north of Holdrege and killed over the weekend.

Wednesday's storm damaged thousands of acres of crops. Thursday was a day to survey the destruction and decide what to do next.

The following is a press release from the Phelps County Attorney: A 17-year-old male, Ronnie J. Bray of Holdrege, Nebraska, died as a result of injuries he sustained in a single vehicle accident which occurred at approxmately 4:50 p.m. on Saturday, July 18, 2009 near the intersection of 18th Avenue and L Road in rural Phelps County, Nebraska.

A south-central Nebraska woman accused of embezzling more than $700,000 from her former employer faces a new charge.

Producers can save money and more effectively use stored moisture and rainfall if they schedule irrigation only when the crop really needs it, said Chuck Burr, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension educator in Phelps and Gosper counties.

The Nebraska State Patrol Air Wing in conjunction with the Furnas County Sheriff's Office captured a Stamford, Nebraska man wanted in connection with a home burglary in rural Furnas County.

Two people arrested after a nearly year-long investigation into the murder of a rural Lexington man were ordered bound over for trial Thursday.

A nearly six month long investigation into the disappearance of more than $700,000.00 from a Holdrege based Irrigation Company has led to the arrest of an Atlanta, Nebraska woman on 15 counts of Felony Theft by Unlawful Taking, beginning in December of 1999.