by Julie Swartz

City of Omaha officials cut the ribbon Wednesday, April 20th on a $6.00 million street maintenance yard at 18th and Jaynes Streets, in northeast Omaha.Prairie Construction Co. of Omaha began work on the new facility in early 2015.

It includes an almost 20,000-square-foot garage that will house equipment, vehicles and office space; a 16,000-square-foot materials building; and a 1,000-square-foot brine-mixing facility that serves a 90,000-gallon brine storage tank.

ELKHORN, Neb. —

It’s been seven months since an Elkhorn parish lost two boys in the same week.

Sunday, parishioners had the opportunity to check out the multimillion-dollar activity center that is under construction and to be named after Lane Graves, 2, and Aspen Seemann, 3. Lane died when an alligator dragged him into a lagoon behind a Disney World Hotel in Orlando. Aspen was pulled from West Shores Lake in Waterloo and died days later.

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