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June 21, 2000
RANDOLPH —If you think the price of gas is high now, don’t expect to pay less anytime soon. The price of gas here is around $1.79 a gallon, and it doesn’t appear to be on a downward slope.
June 21, 2000
HARTINGTON—The Cedar County Fairgrounds has been under construction in preparation for the upcoming Cedar County Fair. A new small animals building is being constructed near the gates of the fairgrounds.
June 9, 2010
RANDOLPH — The Randolph City Council heard differing views at their June 2 meeting on the bricks used to pave downtown streets.
Paul Rosberg was present to give his opinions about the proposed removal of the bricks.
He said the bricks are “historical, unique, and certainly different.” Rosberg stressed the aesthetic value of brick streets — giving examples like Omaha’s Old Market area.
He also pointed out the durability and longevity of brick streets versus paved ones. Rather than marketing Randolph as the “honey capital,” Rosberg suggested that Randolph could be known as “the city with the brick streets.”
He said a business such as his, Nebraska’s Finest Meats, relies on customers from far away, and the attraction of the brick streets could help draw people to Randolph. Rosberg also claimed concrete streets crack and “raise up” as a result of frost and need to be resurfaced in 30 years, whereas brick streets last considerably longer. Rosberg said he is tempted to start a petition drive to keep the streets brick.
Councilman Dowling agreed with Rosberg that brick streets are unique, but Dowling also said problems occur because of the waterlines, curb stops and heavy traffic.
Mayor Kluver added when bricks were used, horses and buggies were much lighter than the heavy equipment driven over streets today. It was agreed alternate routes could be used to keep heavy traffic off the bricks, but ultimately, the cost of bricking is just too high.
Kluver explained the cost of just fixing the bricks is more than putting in all new concrete streets, and the taxpayers should be aware of that. Furthermore, the recently approved city sales tax was passed with the assumption that the money would be used to cover bonds for brick removal and paving, said Kluver, and only one other objection to brick removal has been heard so far via a letter to the editor.
Councilman Alderson added the reason there was so much support for the city sales tax was because of the intention to pave the downtown area.
June 10, 2015
RANDOLPH — The north tributary of the Logan Creek once again washed out at least two locations along the BNSF line and on the east side of Randolph following a rainfall that dropped as much as five inches in some areas Saturday night and Sunday.
Leon Kuhlman, Randolph, had quite a bit of damage to clean up from his Randolph business.
“We had 22 inches of water flowing through the building,” said Kuhlman. “My fence-line was taken out, too,” he said.
County roads and bridges had to be cleared of debris along with several city streets in Randolph.
Highway, street and railroad bridges experienced heavy silt, cornstalks and debris that, at times, overwhelmed some structures seeing water flowing over roads and into nearby fields.
