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🌱 How will a $30,000 grant change policing tools in Grand Island?
Grand Island, Nebraska Patch AM: a 4 min readGood morning to you Grand Island! Catch up on our news and events right here. Keep reading to stay in the know. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How will a $30,000 grant change policing tools in Grand Island?
- What the Monument Advisors plea deal means for Grand Island families
- How virtual nurses are changing care at CHI Health St. Francis
Today's riddle: What has four eyes and can’t see? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: A shower and t-storm; warmer, with a high of 79 and low of 59 degrees.
- Thursday: Partly sunny and humid, temps: high: 85, low: 64.
- Friday: Humid with hazy sun, with a high of 94 and low of 65 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
📰 News we're reading
1. G.I. Police Department awarded nearly $30,000 Federal Justice Assistance Grant (centralnebraskatoday.com) — Grand Island’s Police Department has secured nearly $30,000 in federal Justice Assistance Grant funding to upgrade local law enforcement technology. Most of the money will replace in-car computers for GIPD officers, while the rest helps the Hall County Sheriff’s Office buy license plate readers, aiming to strengthen public safety tools across the community. 
2. Monumental plea agreement: Lepler pleads no contest to three reduced charges in headstone fraud case; 43 felony and misdemeanor theft charges dismissed; Lepler owes victims $266,636 (centralnebraskatoday.com) — A Grand Island businesswoman has pleaded no contest to three reduced felony attempted theft by deception charges tied to undelivered headstones, with prosecutors saying she owes victims more than $266,000. The plea deal, reached in Hall County District Court, dismisses 43 other charges while leaving restitution and a possible prison sentence to be decided at a September 30 hearing.
3. New virtual nursing program at CHI Health St. Elizabeth aims to support bedside staff (1011now.com) — Patients at CHI Health St. Francis in Grand Island now have access to a new Virtual Integrated Care program that connects them with experienced remote nurses for education and paperwork support. After launching here in June, the system is expanding to Lincoln while bedside nurses in Grand Island remain focused on in-person care.
4. Seven I-80 sculptures earn National Register designation (theindependent.com) — A 1976 Interstate 80 sculpture near Grand Island, “Erma’s Desire,” is among seven surviving Bicentennial artworks just added to the National Register of Historic Places. The piece, once controversial for its name, joins other rest-area sculptures across Nebraska now recognized for their cultural and historic value.
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What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Bosselman Enterprises Corporation posted a job opening for Accounts Payable Clerk in Grand Island. Apply here.
- Essential Personnel, Inc. posted a job opening for Welder in Grand Island. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Grand Island here.
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Mississippi (Thank you Eloy R. for sending it in!)
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