Marketing Hometown America holds kickoff event in Kimball

Marketing Hometown America held its kickoff event at the Kimball Event Center Thursday, October 10.

A modest crowd of local residents sat in the Meadowlark Room in the Event Center as Connie Hancock, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Educator, kicked off the meeting with an explanation for the project.

“The Vice Chancellor of the Institute of Ag and Natural Resources has charged all of us within the university, particularly the College of Ag and Natural Resources and Extension to work on changing the demographics of the state of Nebraska. He wants us to look at lowering the median...