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NCKTC to run a full-scale training exercise

Mon, 04/11/2022 - 12:00am

BELOIT – On April 27, 2022 students from NCK Technical College-Beloit Campus will be participating in a training exercise in conjunction with emergency personnel from various organizations within Mitchell County and several surrounding areas. This exercise is designed to simulate the devastation and injuries that may occur from a tornado with the use of special effects make up and props and to allow participants to practice their response efforts to these types of emergencies.

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Wildfires continue to threaten

Mon, 04/11/2022 - 12:00am

MITCHELL COUNTY – According to the National Weather Service (NWS), a Fire Weather Watch is in effect on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, for Smith, Jewell, Osborne, Mitchell counties in Kansas and Polk, Hamilton, York, Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Webster, Nuckolls and Thayer counties in Nebraska.

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Needed safety consumption of towns water facilites

Fri, 04/08/2022 - 12:00am

Former Haviland mayor Robert Ellis stands between pipes inside the small town’ s multimillion-dollar water treatment plant.

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City of Beloit projects progress grows

Fri, 04/08/2022 - 12:00am

Beloit City Administrator Jason Rabe provided the City Councilors with an update during Wednesday’s mostly meeting, on the various major projects in which the city is involved. He said the Water Treatment Plant project is experiencing the regular difficulties of such projects governed by State oversight. He believes there may be a delay in the letting of bid, but with the accelerated cost of everything in the world of building things, a delay may not be necessarily a bad thing.

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Beloit NCKTC to gain PN and RN programs

Fri, 04/08/2022 - 12:00am

BELOIT – North Central Kansas Technical College (NCK Tech) is proud to announce starting in Fall 2022, it will now offer a Practical Nursing (PN) and Registered Nursing (RN) program on the Beloit campus. “ We are excited to being offering our current and future students the opportunity to advance their education and achieve an Associate Degree in Nursing,” said Melissa Crump, Director of Nursing. Now is an exciting time to enter the nursing profession. Nurses are in high demand, and we hope that by offering the RN educational pathway we can help fill some of this need.