KEARNEY â Today, 14 months after they went online, the solar panels feeding energy to Joe and Tara Johnsonâs home northeast of Kearney are producing the numbers the couple expected when they invested $20,000 in October 2019 installing them.
The panels donât always eliminate their monthly electricity bills, but they are carving off a substantial portion of the bills, just as Joe had hoped.
On a bright sunny day his panels can churn out energy that offsets much of his energy costs. Johnson said he didnât expect the panels would eliminate his bills entirely because, with three sons at home, the Johnson family consumes a lot of power. However, in a few years, when Tara and Joe become empty nesters, he believes theyâll rarely owe an electricity bill.
Pandemic threatens sandhill crane viewing season in Nebraska
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 27, 2020 at 12:26 pm EDT
KEARNEY, Neb. Officials in central Nebraska are worried that next spring’s sandhill crane viewing season will be disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic just like this year’s was and hurt the area’s economy.
The annual migration of sandhill cranes across central Nebraska normally draws thousands of visitors to the area who want to see the birds gather along the Platte River in the midst of their annual migration.
Kearney Visitor Bureau Executive Director Roger Jasnoch told the Kearney Hub that there is little demand for the hotel rooms in the area that visitors normally fill. And the conferences, weddings and other events that help generate business for hotels and event centres have also disappeared.
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Nancy Purintun Erika Pritchard, Kearney Hub
Some teeny tiny ones, such as one scene carved into a thimble-sized stone, and others as big as 12 inches tall neatly line shelves or hang from walls and Christmas trees in every room of Purintunâs four-bedroom, two-story home.
The scenes are as unique in size as they are in the material that they are constructed.
âI have some unique things that most people havenât seen,â Purintun said.
While showing off her displays to the Kearney Hub earlier this week, she pointed to a Western-themed Nativity scene and said, âThat one Iâve never seen anyplace else.â
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