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Falls City EDGE Appoints Board of Directors & Committee Members

Wednesday, March 08, 2023

At the Falls City EDGE Annual Board Meeting in January, Kevin Malone was elected President of EDGE. Kevin is the Vice President of Frontier Bank in Falls City, Nebraska. “Kevin’s experience in the banking industry and as past President of EDGE will be valuable as we continue our mission to improve the business conditions in Richardson County,” said Lucas Froeschl, Executive Director of EDGE. EDGE Executive Board Joining Kevin Malone on the Executive Committee are Vice-Presidents Rod Rowland, F&M Bank President, Ray Joy, Vice President of Southeast Communications, Steve Kottich, Miller Monroe Company consultant, and Bart Keller, Farm...

Community & Business Leaders Honored During the Falls City EDGE Annual Banquet

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

In January, Falls City EDGE held an Annual Banquet where they recognized community and business leaders who have made an outstanding contribution to Falls City. During the banquet Bosselman Pump & Pantry received the Investor of the Year Award and Ken Kunce and Charlie Radatz were inducted into the EDGE Wall of Fame. “Falls City is an incredible community that has been made even stronger by Bosselman Enterprises opening Pump & Pantry,” said Lucas Froeschl, Executive Director, Falls City EDGE. Bosselman Enterprises, headquartered in Grand Island, NE is a fourth-generation company with roots in Nebraska. They were one of...

Annual Banquet: Bosselman Pump & Pantry, Investor of the Year

Tuesday, February 07, 2023

For many years, it has been the objective of Falls City EDGE to create convenient access to diesel fuel for our ag community and transportation professionals. With the addition of Missouri River Bridge at Rulo in 2013 and Consolidated Grain & Barge’s rail-served grain-handling facility south of town around the same time, data shows an increase in semi-truck traffic through Falls City. In an effort for the City of Falls City to capture tax revenue generated by fuel sales and provide convenient fuel access in the community, Falls City EDGE began meaningful discussions with Bosselman Enterprises executives in 2019...

Annual Banquet: Ken Kunce, Wall of Fame

Tuesday, February 07, 2023

The late Ken Kunce was an extraordinary entrepreneur, pharmacist, and business owner for four decades in Falls City. In 1976, Ken purchased Shestak Drug in Falls City and renamed it Ken’s Pharmacy; a welcoming environment for daily coffee drinkers and downtown lunch crowd that once included a JC Penny’s Catalog store and Radio Shack. Ken was President of the Nebraska Pharmaceutical Association, recognized as the National Retail Pharmacist of the Year, and later recognized with the prestigious Bowl of Hygeia award in 2007. He retired from Ken’s Pharmacy in 1998, but unretired when he started Falls City Pharmacy in 2004,...

Ignite Nebraska Celebrates First Class Of Graduates

Thursday, October 06, 2022

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Division of Children and Family Services (CFS) is proud to announce the first class of Ignite Nebraska participants graduated on October 4. A ceremony was held to congratulate and recognize graduates at the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE) in Omaha at 1pm. Ignite Nebraska is a new workforce training model designed to create meaningful career development opportunities for individuals who are active in the workforce and receive public assistance benefits but are underrepresented in higher-paying, high-impact industries. BCBSNE collaborated with DHHS and the Department of Labor (DOL) to...

State’s first commercial carbon capture and storage project to be in Bridgeport

Tuesday, October 04, 2022

LINCOLN — The state’s first commercial carbon capture and storage project will be associated with an ethanol plant in Bridgeport. On Tuesday, Carbon America announced an agreement with Bridgeport Ethanol LLC to capture carbon from the ethanol process and store it underground near the plant in Nebraska’s Panhandle. Read full article.

Gov. Ricketts Hosts Ag and Economic Development Summit

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Governor Pete Ricketts welcomed 365 leaders to Kearney’s Younes Conference Center for the “Governor’s Summit on Ag and Economic Development,” co-hosted by the Nebraska Departments of Agriculture and Economic Development. “Nebraska is enjoying rapid growth and record-setting employment,” said Gov. Ricketts. “Nebraska agriculture set all-time highs for beef exports, corn production, and soybean production in 2021. Over the past year, we also achieved our state’s highest manufacturing employment since 2008. This growth generated State revenues $1.47 billion above forecast last fiscal year, putting our state government in a position of unprecedented financial strength. Additionally, the historic tax cuts...

Preparing for Tomorrow’s Workforce

Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Phew, the labor market crisis is over! Jobs are growing but the rapid pace of hiring has slowed and people who were reluctant to work due to COVID are returning to the labor force. It sure seems like the labor crisis was a COVID issue, so we can all go back to business as usual. Back to normal. Not so fast! While the jobs report is better than had been anticipated, there are still signs of stress and volatility in the workforce as well as long term structural challenges. Companies still indicate they cannot get the workers and skills...

The Evolution of the Megasite

Sunday, May 01, 2022

Competing on a national and global scale for large economic development projects — and winning — is a sure sign of a community’s vitality. A community’s ability to position large-scale, shovel-ready land tracts for investment consideration exponentially increases its ability to secure desired jobs and capital investment at the local level. For years, there has been a traditional understanding of megasite requirements. Originally created to meet the demands of the automotive OEM and allied industries, these sites were assumed to have consistent demands. Important factors have included fully contiguous land space; multimodal transportation, including access to rail; large-scale and...

Electrical system grant program approved

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Lawmakers passed a bill April 12 aimed at helping a Nebraska community address its electrical system challenges. LB977, introduced by Sterling Sen. Julie Slama, transfers $15 million from the Cash Reserve Fund to the Site and Building Development Fund and expands eligibility to include grants to second class cities — those with a population between 801 and 5,000 residents — that partner with public power utilities to expand electrical system capacities and enhance redundancy and resilience. Read full article.

Falls City Feels Electric: LB 977

Friday, April 01, 2022

Happy Spring, District One! We are less than one month away from the end of our legislative session, and the Legislature is starting to make a move on some pretty big bills. At the end of this week, we discussed and passed by priority bill on first round, LB 977, that would appropriate $15 million dollars to Falls City for them to secure redundant and resilient access to power. Falls City has almost everything going for it to make it the perfect site to grow Nebraska’s economy—a ready site with access to rail, gas, fast broadband, and a large...

Slama: grant to end Falls City's electrical isolation

Monday, January 17, 2022

FALLS CITY – Sen. Julie Slama has introduced a bill in the state Legislature that would provide a path for American Recovery funds to help Falls City upgrade its electrical transmission line. LB 977 requests a one-time appropriation of $29 million to the state Department of Economic Development for a grant to any city of the second class. Read full article.

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