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By Brandon Summers Grand Island’s occupation tax revenue was not hit as badly as expected despite seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The city’s Food and Beverage Occupation Oversight Tax Committee on Thursday reviewed the total tax revenue for the city’s fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. “We’re really fortunate, if we look at our revenues, that we haven’t been nailed that hard,” committee member Karl Kostbahn said. “I was surprised at how little decrease there was between the two fiscal years, with a big chunk of 2020 being under the pa...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated with quotes from Wednesday's meeting as well as a statement from Board of Education intern Finley Edwards. The Cabarrus County Board of Education voted 5-2 at an emergency called meeting on Wednesday to move into fully remote learning starting Monday, Dec. 14. There is an end date set on the motion as the board hopes to bring students back to campus after Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 19. Effectively, students who are learning in a blended format right now will miss six days of on-campus learning. Students who are in Plan B currently went to sch...

Dec 11, 2020 A boy tests the ice on the pond at Lions Park. Ice on most area lakes is still considered too thin to walk on. While the unusually warm weather this week was an opportunity for people to be outside, it delayed the start of winter activities such as ice fishing. The above-freezing days are slowing the speed that ice forms on local lakes and ponds, pushing back when people can take to the ice. The cooler nights helped keep the ice already on the lakes from melting, despite temperatures rising to an unusually warm 50 degrees this week. The problem is that new ice doesn’t form d...

Once they did, probably another 10 or 15 minutes to get the tank oriented correctly above the legs. >> the crane operator nearly 130 feet in the air lowers the container closer and closer while his co-workers guide its placement with the attached cables. as one of the men begins his climb down to the ground, the crane suddenly starts to shift. within seconds, to the horror of those watching below, the crane carrying the container gives way, colliding with the legs of the water tower. with cables breaking, the container drops, steel stanchions snapping like twigs. the crane and tower sway towar...

>> translator: i cannot remember anything about the accident. i thought i was sleeping, but when i woke up i was not in my bed. >> remarkably he and the truck driver suffer only minor injuries. grateful to be alive, he says, life is beautiful and considers february 25th, the day of the accident, his new birthday. in a small iowa town, an exciting day turns tragic when a water tower comes tumbling down. leaving three lives hanging in the balance. >> it happened so quickly. it was such a shocking moment. >> july 2000, reporter brian schultz is dispatched to new providence, iowa, to cover the i...