New alerting system is prepared for severe weather season. Are you?

Spring is near and with it often comes severe weather.

March 21-25 is Nebraska Severe Weather Awareness Week, and recently our county has installed the CodeRed system in the Kimball Sheriff’s office to help assure that Kimball residents are “weather-ready”.

Sheriff Gillway, along with Kimball County’s General Assistant Coordinator, Linda Williams, were instrumental in gathering the information and ultimately doing most of the leg-work in obtaining the new system.

The new CodeRED system will be easier for local authorities and residents to use, according to Sheriff’s Office personn...